Rachel Hilson

About

Rachel Naomi Hilson (born 1995) is an American actress. She started her career in 2010 with a recurring role on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Nisa Dalmar. In 2025, she performed the co-lead role as FBI agent Nina Hayes in the Max crime thriller series Duster. She has also had recurring roles on NBC’s Rise and This Is Us and a lead role on the Hulu teen drama Love, Victor.

Rachel Naomi Hilson was born in 1995 in Baltimore, Maryland to Anita and Robert Hilson. She has a sister named Kimberly.
Hilson began dancing at age 3. While she had many aspirations, her passion for dance stuck. Hilson told Backstage “I dedicated my life to Nutcrackers, spring recitals, dance camps” and recreating scenes from the 2000 movie Center Stage as Eva. Hilson was discovered by an agent at age 12 and took up acting. That summer, her mother convinced Hilson to attend the Broadway Artist Alliance in New York. She was then recruited by Nancy Carson of the Carson-Adler Agency, who would later become her agent, to dance in the children’s musical series LazyTown. After traveling to Iceland with her mom for the tapings, Hilson signed with Carson a few months later. From there…