Ashleigh Rains is an actress and award-winning producer with dual Canadian and British citizenship. Currently she has a recurring role in The Handmaid’s Tale and has appeared in television series and films including My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Designated Survivor, Flashpoint, Warehouse 13, Bitten and numerous independent productions.  She is a classically trained dancer having studied at Canada’s National Ballet School and performed with The National Ballet of Canada. Ashleigh has a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Drama from Queen’s University and studied Contemporary Drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.

• Selected from applicants Canada wide for the National Screen Institute’s Totally Television Program with her producing partner, Geordie Sabbagh. Currently they are in-development for their 1-hr procedural, A Detective Lives Here. Together they have produced features, shorts, and web series and have just completed working with Shaftesbury Films.
• Co-founder of the production company We’ll Be Over Here Productions
• WIFT’s Corus Media Management Accelerator program
• Co-Programmer for the Canadian Film Fest
• Mentor for WIFT’s inaugural Mentorship Program
• Member of ACTRA, WIFT, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television