Biography

Rebecca Harrell Tickell is an award winning filmmaker, author and environmental activist. Growing up in Hinesburg, Vermont. Her adopted father, a psychiatrist, and biological mother, an artist, recognized her talent at an early age. Having performed only in school plays that her mother directed, she went to NYC in hope of getting a voice-over agent. Her first audition ever was for the Christmas movie Prancer (1989). Raffaella De Laurentiis and 'John Hancock' showed up at her door in Vermont to tell her that she would be starring in the movie with Sam Elliot, Abe Vigoda, Cloris Leachman, and Michael Constantine. Her role garnered her a Young Artist Award nomination for "Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture." Prancer (1989) was a success and is regarded as a Christmas classic. Movie critic Roger Ebert highlighted Harrell's performance, saying "what really redeems the movie, taking it out of the category of kiddie picture and giving it a heart and gumption, is the performance by a young actress named Rebecca Harrell, as Jessica. She's something. She has a troublemaker's look in her eye, and a round, pixie face that's filled with mischief. And she's smart-a plucky schemer who figures out things for herself and isn't afraid to act on her convictions". She was then cast in a series on CBS called 'Room For Romance' with Dom Irrera. Her mother moved her to NYC to go to the Professional Performing Arts School where she studied music along with Alicia Keys and child celebrities.

At eighteen she starred in A Piece of Eden (2000) along with Tyne Daly and Frederic Forrest. She guest-starred in shows such as Third Watch (1999) and Dellaventura (1997) with Danny Aiello. In 2000 at age twenty, she moved from New York to Los Angeles. She worked again with director 'John Hancock' in a suspense thriller Suspended Animation (2001). Later that year she filmed a movie alongside John Ritter which was shot in one day and was completely improvised by the actors. In Saint Sinner (2002) she played a demon that sucks souls and blood of men.

In 2007 she starred in and another horror film, Sugar Creek (2007), after which quit acting to pursue her dream of environmental activism, filmmaking and movie production. She met and fell in love with director Joshua Tickell with whom she created the Sundance Award winning environmentally themed documentary Fuel (2008).

Her 2011 Official Cannes Selection documentary The Big Fix (2012) examines the BP Gulf Oil Spill and how America can get off of oil. She then directed and produced Pump (2014) and Good Fortune (2016) with her husband Josh. Together they directed and produced the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection Kiss the Ground (2020) narrated by Woody Harrelson. Tickell resides in Ojai, California and was married to Tickell on New Years Day 2010. The Tickells were seen driving the worlds first algae gasoline powered car around Los Angeles.

She owns Big Picture Ranch with her husband Josh Tickell, and has dedicated her life to environmental activism through the medium of film.
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The New York Post said "she is a star waiting to be discovered" regarding her role in A Piece of Eden (2000).

She is an environmental activist.

She has been directed by John D. Hancock in four projects: Prancer (1989), Dellaventura (1997) (one episode), A Piece of Eden (2000), and Suspended Animation (2001).

Roger Ebert praised her acting in Prancer (1989), writing that her performance gave the film "heart and gumption".

Most of her work as a director focuses on societal and environmental issues.