Rachelle Beinart

Rachelle Beinart is a British actress, suit performer, and stunt person who is well known for performing stunts for many films. Her suit performance credits placed her on ZingZillas (as Drum) and the reboot of Teletubbies (as Po) while the rest of her roles involved on-screen acting. Rachelle may not have done any Muppet projects, but she has performed with Muppet puppeteers, such as Josh Elwell, Olly Taylor, William Banyard, and Nick Kellington. For acting credits, Beinart mostly did uncredited roles in films such as Below Her Mouth, Fences, Game of Thrones, and Before I Fall, to name a few. She did receive credit for doing stunts on numerous films and series however, such as The Irregulars, The Batman, The Marvels, Cats, and more. It's amazing how a stunt performer can work well for both adults and children too. Other performers that worked with Rachelle Beinart on Teletubbies (besides Nick Kellington) have included Rebecca Hyland, Jeremiah Kage, and Victoria Jane. She's still doing wonderful stunts for films and series today including some upcoming ones. Maybe someday, one of the puppeteers she performed with in the past will introduce her to some British Muppet performers. You never know when something like that will happen to Rachelle. In the meantime, Beinart should be considered one of the terrific stunt performers in the UK since she's been performing stunts since 2012. She could even be an influence on those that want to perform stunts for films and TV series. It must have been extremely complicated for her to perform certain stunts for certain projects, and it must be hard for her to be one of the Teletubbies since the performer also voices the character from within the suit. Rachelle Beinart, you're fantastic at performing stunts for TV and film, and you were great taking the role of Po from Pui Fan Lee. Keep up the great work and also try to get in touch with some performers from ZingZillas. Maybe one of those puppeteers can explain their experience with the Muppets. Flip to it Rachelle. You got this Beinart!

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