Rachel Weston

Rachel Weston was one of the child stars of hit kidult show Children of Fire Mountain, playing grandaughter to a British aristocrat visiting turn of the century New Zealand. She went on to guest on Sea Urchins and comedy Porters. While training as a classical singer, Weston was a finalist in the Mobil Song Quest. Later she hosted music show Opus and classical music contests, before starting over in the United Kingdom. Since then, Weston has read the news for the BBC World Service, and presented Proms concerts for BBC Four. Her voice has graced the soundtrack of everything from movie Nanny McPhee to The Fellowship of the Ring. 

On set I learned to save energy, as you never knew quite how many takes would be needed to cover a scene. I also sensed that the best policy around the adult actors was to be quiet and as efficient as possible, since I could guess what some thought about working with child actors! But I feel very lucky to have been part of it all. Rachel Weston, on being a child actor on 1979 series Children of Fire Mountain