Rhae Ann Theriault was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up (along with six sisters & brothers) in the Northwest suburb of Glenview.  Her career began early while still in grade school.  Rhae appeared in multiple plays & musicals with The Glenview Theatre Guild, The North Shore Theatre Company, and The Winnetka Theatre.  She graduated from Regina Dominican High in Wilmette ...where her school colors were "brown, beige and white" ...yeah, rah!  Big excitement came her junior year when the all-girl student body was allowed to go 'argyle'!  Always the class clown, one of her favorite pastimes was mimicking the staff ...most of whom were nuns.  Her most memorable teacher was dance instructor, Sister Nancy Murray (sister of Saturday Night Live's Bill Murray), whose sarcastic wit & humor was an early influence on Rhae's sense of comedy.  "Rhae was always just a bit off center," recalls one teacher, "one day, after school, she nearly burned the fine arts building down while trying to exterminate a parade of ants!" 

Rhae Ann began working professionally right out of high school and was entered ‘unwillingly’ in the Miss North Shore Pageant (placing first runner up).  Unable to take it very seriously, the pageant world was admittedly “not her thang.”  She spent a season singing & dancing on the main stage at Marriott's Great America (now Six Flags), in Gurnee, IL., performing six & seven grueling shows a day - while performing at night as a singing wench at The King's Manor Dinner Theater in Chicago.  Rhae recalls, "There's nothing like being in the middle of singing a beautiful rendition of Green Sleeves and having some drunk yell out, "Hey Wench!  More beer!"  

During that same year, auditions were held in Chicago for the Broadway National Tour of A Chorus Line, which is when she landed the leading role of Diana Morales (singing two of the show's best songs, Nothing & What I did for Love), and began touring the U.S. and Canada.  After living in Toronto for seven months, she returned home and began working steadily in the local Chicago theater scene.  She appeared in over 15 musicals and plays including the 20th Anniversary revival of Hair at The Vic Theatre (produced by Michael Butler & the late Timothy Leary) & Pal Joey at the Theatre Goodman (directed by Bob Falls & choreographed by Ann Reinking), Westside Story at the Marriott Lincolnshire, Anything Goes at The Drury Lane, La Cage Aux Folles, The Human Comedy, 42nd Street, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Candlelight Playhouse.

Since moving out to the West Coast, one of her biggest thrills was being asked to sing the National Anthem at a Dodger game (against the Cubs ...GRRRRR)!  Rhae sang with Barbra Streisand at the Nomination Celebration Concert (The Shrine Auditorium), & performed with a cavalcade of stars on NBC’s Bob Hope's 90th Anniversary Special" (playing Dorothy Lamour in a special tribute to The Road pictures).  

A veteran of Second City (Chicago & Toronto) and Groundlings (Los Angeles), Rhae Ann is most at home with comedy.  She co-starred in Out of Control at Bally's (Vegas) and Just Add Water at Caesar's (Tahoe).  She has performed comedy sketches on Into the Night with Rick Dees, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, & had a recurring role on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.

LA theater audiences may remember her as ditzy, blonde Delores in Olympus On My Mind at The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, (Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza), Sandra Shore in Adam Henry and Mary Timkens in Mustard  (both at the Tamarind Theatre in Hollywood).  She portrayed Lily Cummins in Santa Barbara CLO's production of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (for which she received a Robby Award Nomination), and originated the role of Cindy Lou in Roger Bean's The Marvelous Wonderettes (which debuted at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater).  Additionally, Rhae has played Mme. De Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street, Kathy Selden (the Debbie Reynolds role) in Singin' in the Rain & Mae in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Rhae studied acting with Charles Nelson Reilly, taught tap & dance classes, & choreographed many shows & corporate events.  She has been seen / heard in numerous commercials & voice-overs for such clients as Pampers, Purina Dog Chow, Sunny Delite, Pacific Bell, Auto by Tel and Knott's Berry Farm.  She has also appeared as a host & spokesmodel in dozens of industrial films & infomercials for clients such as BMW, Achieve Global, Mead Paper, Blue Cross Blue Shield, & Banker's Life & Casualty.  Rhae Ann also keeps very active doing charity work and has performed in many benefits with the Thaliens and A Chorus Line of Care ...most notably, the AMFAR benefit honoring The Three Carols; Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, and Carol Bayer-Sager (Beverly Hilton Hotel).  She was asked to sing at the Diversity Awards, FOX (hosted at the Playboy Mansion) along with former Harlettes Linda Hart & Franny McCartney.  Rhae has sung out at sea on numerous occasions onboard Holland America & Norwegian Cruise Lines...where she became an avid SCUBA diver!

She was cast as one of Bette Midler's “Staggering Harlettes” as "the-token-white-girl-in-the-middle" in 1993 (after a massive talent search and seven call-backs) and toured with her for seven years.  Tours included: Experience The Divine, Experience The Divine Again, Diva Las Vegas (filmed as an Emmy award winning HBO Special), and The Divine Miss Millennium. 

Tour highlights also include a 6 week run at Radio City Music Hall (breaking box office records), a special surprise New Year’s Eve show with Pattie LaBelle in San Francisco, an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman ...singing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (while hopping & dancing around in a mermaid fin!), performances with the Harlettes on The Morning Show and Bette, Bette's (unfortunately short-lived) sitcom, a millennium photo essay in Rolling Stone magazine, a featured role in the film Get Bruce (a tribute to the hilarious comedy writer, Bruce Villanch), and a performance with Ms. Midler on OPRAH, singing a beautiful rendition of That's How Love Moves & Wind Beneath My Wings.

Being the ‘dare devil’ of the trio, Rhae’s wheelchair (used in the mermaid section at the top of Act II) was unceremoniously donned, "Knievel".  

Rhae's vocals can be heard most recently on Juel Nero's latest Gospel album, "Songs for my 3 Mothers."