Rachelle Vinberg (born August 27, 1998) is an American skateboarder and actress. She is best known for starring as Camille, a fictionalized version of herself, in the film '' Skate Kitchen'' and the TV series '' Betty'' inspired by the real group of female skaters she is a part of.

Early life and education

Vinberg was born in

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ...

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

, to divorced parents, a

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

n mother and an American father. She has an older brother and a younger brother. As of 2018, Vinberg was a sophomore at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

, where she was majoring in film.

Career

Skateboarding

Vinberg learned to ollie the summer before she turned 12, taught by an older cousin. Vinberg continued learning tricks by watching YouTube and started skating with the boys in her neighborhood. Vinberg befriended Nina Moran over YouTube and the two started skating together in NYC. While in NYC, Vinberg and Moran met

Crystal Moselle Sierra Ditson "Crystal" Moselle (born August 1, 1980) is an American filmmaker. Her debut film was '' The Wolfpack'' (2015), a documentary on the Angulo brothers. She has also made '' That One Day'' (2016) and ''Skate Kitchen'' (2018). Early lif ...

. Moselle shot a 13-minute film with Vinberg, Moran and several of their friends titled ''That One Day'', which was then reworked and expanded into the feature film, '' Skate Kitchen''.

Acting

Vinberg was skating at

LES Skatepark Coleman Playground is a public park on the border between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. History The park is named in honor of an U.S. Army Corporal Joseph Francis Coleman who died in 1919. Befo ...

when a casting director approached her to appear in "A Perfect Day", a Samsung commercial directed by Cary Fukunaga. In 2018, Vinberg played Camille in

's film '' Skate Kitchen''. Vinberg stars in the

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...

produced series '' Betty'', based on ''Skate Kitchen''. Rachelle Vinberg, Loren Michelle, and friends at FatKid

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* 1998 births American people of Colombian descent American skateboarders American sportswomen Female skateboarders Hispanic and Latino American actresses Hispanic and Latino American sportspeople Living people 21st-century American women {{US-skateboarding-bio-stub