Rachel Huggett

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Rachel Huggett is a former actress and model best known for her starring role in the Japanese science fiction epic Sayonara Jupiter (1984) for Toho Studios.Prior to that, she had a bit part as a teenager in Otto Preminger's Skidoo (1968), starring Jackie Gleason. Ms. Huggett spent a year modeling in Japan in 1976, which was followed by a brief modeling stint in England. She returned to Japan in 1981 where she resumed modeling but soon gave it up for acting. While in Japan, Ms. Huggett appeared in some of Shochiku Studios' celebrated Tora-san movies, regularly appeared on the Oretachi Hyokin zoku TV comedy program (starring "Beat" Takeshi Kitano), and acted in the 1984 film Shanghai Rhapsody, directed by Kinji Fukasaku (The Green Slime, Message from Space). Ms. Huggett went on to play the mother of actress Bridgette Andersen in the Cannon Group-produced Too Much (1987) in Japan.Following her career in Japan, Ms. Huggett graduated from the Academia of Fine Arts, Bologna, in 1998. Since 2004, she has worked as a sculptor, getting a series of commission work for public sculpture and installations. Show less «