Actress Rachel Bilson is an integral part of pop culture due to her series regular role as fan-favorite ‘Summer Roberts’ on the very popular television show The O.C. for four seasons.

Most recently, Rachel hosted the Broad Ideas podcast, where she was joined by longtime best friend Olivia Allen to talk about sex, mental health, their belief (or lack of) in ghosts, and so much more. She also hosts the retrospective podcast, Welcome to the OC, Bitches!, with friend and co-star Melinda Clarke.

Her recent television credits include her role as ‘Alison’ in season 1 of the FOX anthology drama Accused and her starring role as ‘Sam Swift’ in the ABC series Take Two alongside Eddie Cibrian. She was also recently seen in Season 5 of the CMT series Nashville, where she played ‘Alyssa Green,’ a Silicon Valley marketing expert. From 2011–2015, she starred as ‘Dr. Zoe Hart’ in four seasons of The CW series Hart of Dixie, a fish-out-of-water story about a New York City doctor adjusting to life in a small Southern town after she inherits a local medical practice. She also starred as ‘Constance Kopp’ in an episode from Season 4 and as ‘Helen Callaghan’ in an episode from Season 6 of Drunk History.

Her film credits include The To Do List, opposite Bill Hader and Aubrey Plaza. She also starred as the female lead in Waiting for Forever, as well as in Jumper for 20th Century Fox Studios; L!fe Happens opposite Kate Bosworth; The Last Kiss, with Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn for Paramount; and opposite Andy Garcia in a film called New York, I Love You, comprised of a series of shorts. She also appeared twice as a guest star on the television series “How I Met Your Mother, as well as Josh Schwartz’s Chuck.

She also had guest-starring roles in television series such as That ‘70s Show, Mad TV, 8 Simple Rules, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.