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Rachel Talalay
Highest Rated: 98% Hairspray (1988)
Lowest Rated: 10% Ghost in the Machine (1993)
Birthday: Aug 16, 1958
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Multi-talented math major who evolved from production assistant to producer-director. Yale graduate Talalay was working in Baltimore as a computer analyst when she landed her first job as a production assistant to writer-director John Waters on "Polyester" (1981). She played a bit part in the underrated sci-fi effort "Android" (1982) before holding such jobs as script supervisor for "The House on Sorority Row" (1983), software supplier for the disaster adventure "City Limits" (1985), production manager on "A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy's Revenge" (1985), assistant director on the horror-comedy "Return to Horror High" (1986), and line producer for "A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 3: Dream Warriors" (1987).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65% | No Score Yet | A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting | Director | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On the Farm | Director | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 7% | The Dorm | Director | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Hannah's Law | Director | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Wind in the Willows | Director | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Tale of Two Wives | Director | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touching Evil | Director | - | 1998 |
| 75% | 49% | The Borrowers | Producer | $22.4M | 1997 |
| 45% | 62% | Tank Girl | Director | $3.8M | 1995 |
| 10% | 23% | Ghost in the Machine | Director | $4.6M | 1993 |
| 23% | 32% | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare |
Director, Writer |
$34.0M | 1991 |
| 72% | 77% | Cry Baby | Producer | $7.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Book of Love | Producer | $1.4M | 1990 |
| 57% | 43% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | Producer | $49.3M | 1988 |
| 98% | 80% | Hairspray | Producer | $6.7M | 1988 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97% | 35% | Doctor Who | Director | 2023 |
| 89% | 59% | The Flash | Director | 2016 2018-2019 2021 2023 |
| 57% | 74% | Quantum Leap | Director | 2022 |
| 83% | 80% | Superman & Lois | Director | 2021 |
| 81% | 47% | Riverdale | Director | 2018-2019 2021 |
| 77% | 70% | American Gods | Director | 2019 |
| 98% | 77% | Doom Patrol | Director | 2019 |
| 88% | 47% | Supergirl | Director | 2016 2019 |
| 90% | 65% | Doctor Who | Director | 2014-2015 2017 |
| 78% | 83% | Sherlock | Director | 2017 |
| 89% | 69% | DC's Legends of Tomorrow | Director | 2016 |
| 86% | 83% | Reign | Director | 2014 |
| 55% | 86% | Bomb Girls | Director | 2013 |
| 88% | 86% | Continuum | Director | 2012 |
| 63% | 85% | Haven | Director | 2010 |
| 56% | 76% | Kyle XY | Director | 2007 |
| 75% | 65% | Greek | Director | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Dead Zone | Director | 2002 2006-2007 |
| 93% | 72% | Supernatural | Director | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wildfire | Director | 2005 |
| 73% | No Score Yet | life as we know it | Director | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Director | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Without a Trace | Director | 2002 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Wolf Lake | Director | 2001 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | That's Life | Director | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Have & to Hold | Director | 1998 |