I hate the idea of even making a thread like this, being one of those folks who doesn't
want people to screw around with this story, and just leave it be. But I couldn't help noticing while watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, that this girl had a pretty striking "Rachel" quality about her, in both appearance and kind of...intensity, is probably the word.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1628079/Too old, obviously, but she's definitely got the right look for Rachel. Like almost exactly, which I haven't really noticed any other actors to have. First time for everything, I guess.
She has a couple of very brief "aggressive" scenes in the show too, and seemed to be able to switch between that "normal suburban mallrat girl" and "shrieking yelling Xena" pretty admirably.
http://www.soapsonabc.com/files/2008/06/leven-rambin-nc.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QWOXmjFGlEM/SdDm9rVoLjI/AAAAAAAAMQE/3q9Pjb99v_M/s400/MV5BMTAyNzI5MDc2MDleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDEwODQ1MzI@._V1._SX288_SY400_.jpgObviously I'm not suggesting they cast this girl as Rachel, just thought she fit the right archetype pretty much exactly, and it's the first time I've seen anyone who really leapt off the screen as "Rachel-ish". Her character on the show is pretty different, but just little mannerisms and stuff totally felt right. If they ever do make another attempt at adapting Animorphs, they should probably go for someone reasonably similar in look to her, pretty but kind of "normal" and real, with the ability to kind of pull off both intelligence/sarcastic wit
and the fearless bravado on screen.
There's probably been a thread like this somewhere before over the years, was just curious to see if there were any actors you've seen that screamed "one of the Animorphs characters". Either the main kids or supporting characters, doesn't matter.
The only other ones I've felt may work were a curiosity over whether Ron Glass, Shepherd Book from Firefly/Serenity, would make a decent Visser. Or even Elfangor, I suppose, he has that whole strong regal quality and deep badass voice for either, though I'd think casting someone that age as 'Fangor may pose problems later on, if they ever did a Chronicles type of dealio.