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World Famous Person I Admire – Meghan Markle

Early life and education

Rachel Meghan Markle was born August 4, 1981, in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, and identifies as being mixed-race. Her parents divorced when she was six. Markle has a close relationship with her mother, Doria Ragland. Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, worked as a director of photography and lighting for Married… with Children, and Meghan frequently visited the set of the television series as a child. She is estranged from her father and paternal half-siblings, Samantha Markle and Thomas Markle Jr.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Markle attended Hollywood Little Red Schoolhouse. At age 11, she wrote to Procter & Gamble to gender-neutralize a dishwashing soap commercial on national television. Three months later, P&G changed the commercial. She was raised as a Protestant, but she graduated from Immaculate Heart High School, an all-girl Catholic school. In 1999, Markle was admitted to Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois, where she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. After her junior year, she interned at the American embassy in Buenos Aires and considered a political career. However, she did not score high enough in the Foreign Service Officer Test to proceed further with the US State Department, and returned to NU. She also attended a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2003, Markle earned her bachelor’s degree with a double major in theater and international studies from Northwestern’s School of Communication.

Acting career

Markle claims she had some difficulty getting roles early in her career due to being “ethnically ambiguous” because “I wasn’t black enough for the black roles and I wasn’t white enough for the white ones.” To support herself between acting jobs, she worked as a freelance calligrapher and taught bookbinding. Her first on-screen appearance was a small role as a nurse in an episode of the daytime soap opera General Hospital. Markle had small guest roles on the television shows Century City (2004), The War at Home (2006) and CSI: NY (2006). She also did several contract acting and modeling jobs, including a stint as a “briefcase girl” on the US-version of the game show Deal or No Deal. She appeared in Fox’s series Fringe as Junior Agent Amy Jessup in the first two episodes of its second season.

Markle appeared in small roles in the films Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me and The Candidate in 2010 and the film Horrible Bosses in 2011. She was paid $187,000 for her role in Remember Me and $171,429 for her role in the short film The Candidate. In July 2011, Markle joined the cast of the USA Network show Suits through to late 2017 and the seventh season. Her character, Rachel Zane, began as a paralegal and eventually became an attorney. While working on Suits, Markle lived for nine months each year in Toronto. Fortune magazine estimated that Markle was paid $50,000 per episode, amounting to an equivalent annual salary of $450,000.

Personal life

Markle and American film producer Trevor Engelson began dating in 2004. They were married in Ocho Rios, Jamaica on September 10, 2011 and concluded a no-fault divorce in August 2013, citing irreconcilable differences. Markle’s subsequent relationship with Canadian celebrity chef and restaurateur Cory Vitiello ended in May 2016 after almost two years. In June 2016, Markle began a relationship with Prince Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. In November, the prince directed his communications secretary to release a statement on his behalf to express personal concern about pejorative and false comments made about his girlfriend by mainstream media and internet trolls. In September 2017, Markle and Prince Harry first appeared together in public in Toronto at the Invictus Games, of which Harry is founding patron.

Why I chose to write about her

I chose to write about Meghan Markle, because she fights for causes, which are very important for the world. She is a true inspiration to me.