Nina Axelrod

Nina Kether Axelrod is an American actress who later became a film casting director. She became known in the late 1970s with TV spots on Charlie's Angels and CHiPs, plus Roller Boogie (1979). Nina Axelrod appeared nude in the horror comedy Motel Hell, released in 1980. She was born on July 28, 1955, in New York City, New York. Motel Hell, a send-up of slasher films, became her best remembered role and later gained a cult following. In 1981 she read for the part of Rachael in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). That screen test was later included on the 2007 DVD of the Final Cut. Since the early 1990s she has done casting work and also taught drama in schools.