Rachel Alana Handler is an American actress, singer and motivational speaker who is best known for playing Chunks in the 2016 horror movie Smothered. Early life Handler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raised in Linwood, New Jersey, she is a graduate of Mainland Regional High School. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Westminster Choir College. In her early career she performed with Kelli O'Hara at Carnegie Hall in “The Best of Lerner and Loewe” and had made appearances in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions. She did months of rehab from a car accident, and now walks with prosthesis and has become an advocate for actors with disabilities. Career In 2015, she was honored as part of Atlantic City Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" Handler's contributions and interviews on her personal experiences and inclusion of disabled actors in the arts have been featured on Quora, Disabled World, Little Bits of Good, and Backstage.com. Her recent article "Stop Excluding Actors With Disabilities" was posted to the front page of Backstage. Her acting credits include an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, an episode of Blue Bloods, as "Denise Todd" (uncredited) in Elementary, and starring in the Christa Wells video "Shine". Her appearance as Chunks in Smothered has been well received by the horror community. She has starred in independent films, including Disabilidates, a short film in which she played an amputee going on a first date, Two and Twenty Troubles and Only Those Who Limp Allowed. Her theater credits include Tess Samuels in "The Bipartisan" at the Thespis Theatre Festival, Resident Actor in "The Bats" at The Flea Theater and Hannah in Measure for Measure at Frog and Peach Theatre Co. Handler also appeared in Nicu's Spoon Theater Company's production of Richard III as Lady Anne. Handler also wrote and starred in Inspiration Whore, a one woman show in which Handler, fresh from her accident and recovery, constantly hears people tell her that she is an "inspiration" and works through her conflicted feelings on the topic, ultimately finding the "inspiring spark" inside herself. In 2016 she created an Angie Tribeca spin-off and parody created and written by Handler titled Becky Nolita which features actors with disabilities. In 2017, Handler filmed a supporting role in the film The Upside, starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. Handler was also profiled in a March 2017 broadcast of