Rachel Smith appeared on Coronation Street between November and December 1993 as nurse Alison Rathbone, a friend of Amy Nelson who briefly dated Steve McDonald.
Her other television acting credits included September Song, The Bill, In Suspicious Circumstances, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Where the Heart Is, EastEnders, Doctors, Emmerdale, and The Royal, along with the 2000 film Secret Society.
She gave up acting to become a TV writer, again working on Doctors, as well as Casualty, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, Father Brown, Red Election and The Dumping Ground.