Rachel Zegler

Rachel Zegler (birthname: Rachel Anne Zegler) burst onto the big screen in her attention-getting debut as Maria in director/producer Steven Spielberg’s (and screenwriter Tony Kushner’s) revisioned remake of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical classic, West Side Story (2021), starring Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist and Rita Moreno, earning seven Oscar nominations but proving a rare Spielberg box-office disappointment with only a $75 million return against a $100 million budget.

Zegler appeared in a major role in another box-office loser, Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), the poorly received DC Films sequel starring Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan’s Grazer, Adam Brody, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren under David F. Sandberg’s direction, grossing $134 million for Warner Bros. (with a $125 million).

Zegler co-starred with Tom Blyth in Lionsgate Films’ successful reboot, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), with Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Jose Andres Rivera, and Viola Davis under Francis Lawrence’s direction, and grossing a solid $349 million on a $100 million budget. Zegler co-starred in the more modest black comedy Envisioning a Disaster that Never Happened, Y2K (2024), with comic actor Kyle Mooney in his director/writer debut, and co-stars Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Fred Durst, and Alicia Silverstone, and which was released wide by A24.

Rachel Zegler landed the plum title role of Disney’s Snow White (2025), based on the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale and a re-conceived live-action version of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), co-starring Gal Gadon as the Evil Queen, and with Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia and Martin Klebba, co-written Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson and directed by Marc Webb.