Days Of Our Lives
Alice Halsey Made Us TERRIFIED of a Child on Days of Our Lives and We’re Obsessed
DAYS fans are calling Alice Halsey a future Oscar winner after her work as Rachel Black – and after watching her, we agree completely!
ALICE HALSEY IS PROVING SHE’S A POWERHOUSE PERFORMER AND DAYS OF OUR LIVES FANS ARE TERRIFIED THEY MIGHT LOSE HER
TL;DR: Alice Halsey took over the role of Rachel Black on Days of Our Lives in 2025 and immediately proved herself as one of daytime’s most talented young actresses. She’s already earned Soap Opera News’ Performer of the Week honors, landed a starring role on Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie, and has fans predicting future Emmy and Oscar wins. The only question now is whether Days of Our Lives can hold onto this rising star.
Alice Halsey Won Performer of the Week Across ALL Soaps
Alice replaced Finley Rose Slater, who played Rachel from 2021-2025 and set an incredibly high bar for the role. Instead of struggling to fill those shoes, Alice elevated Rachel Black to new heights.
Fans on social media can’t stop talking about her work. One Facebook commenter wrote: “What amazes me is, I would think an actor has to draw on either past experiences or be able to put themselves or into or imagine themselves in that situation. This has been such a dark deep storyline. I’m amazed that a little girl that age is able to do that with such believability. Wow! She is certainly the actor we can all say, we knew her when, when she gets her Oscar!”
On Reddit, another fan declared: “Alice is a future academy-award winning actress in the making. I am certain! Or at the least a several daytime emmy award winning actress.” A third viewer predicted: “She’s unbelievably talented. I believe years from now after she wins an Oscar they will say she started her career on Days!”
These aren’t casual compliments. These are longtime Days of Our Lives fans who have watched countless child actors come and go over the decades, and they recognize when someone truly special appears on their screens.
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The Pistachio Poisoning Arc Proved She Can Handle Dark Material
Let’s talk about the storyline that elevated Alice Halsey on everyone’s radar: Rachel’s calculated attempt to poison Sarah Horton with pistachio oil.
Rachel discovered online that Sarah—the woman her father Brady was growing increasingly close to—had been involved in the baby switch that robbed Rachel of time with her parents. When Rachel learned this devastating truth, she also discovered that Sarah has a severe pistachio allergy.
What Rachel did next was CHILLING. She deliberately used pistachio oil knowing it would cause Sarah to have a life-threatening allergic reaction. And Alice played every moment perfectly. She conveyed Rachel’s anger about the baby switch, her jealousy over Sarah’s relationship with Brady, her determination to eliminate the threat Sarah represented, and her satisfaction when the plan worked—all while maintaining Rachel’s essential childlike qualities.
When Rachel confessed to poisoning Sarah, she didn’t make excuses or deflect blame. She owned what she’d done. And then she asked the question that made Days of Our Lives fans reach for tissues: “Am I a bad person?”
Alice delivered that line with such raw vulnerability that you could FEEL Rachel’s genuine confusion about her own nature. She’s terrified that something is fundamentally wrong with her. Her performance was nothing short of MASTERFUL.
Netflix Just Cast Her as Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie
In May, Alice Halsey made an announcement on Instagram that sent shockwaves through the Days of Our Lives community: she’s been cast as Laura Ingalls in Netflix’s upcoming Little House on the Prairie series.
But here’s where Days of Our Lives fans start to panic: does this mean Alice is leaving the show?
We don’t have confirmation either way. Production schedules for the Netflix series haven’t been announced, and neither Days of Our Lives nor Alice’s representatives have made any public statements about whether she’ll continue as Rachel Black.
Whether Alice Halsey stays with Days of Our Lives or moves on to the Netflix series and beyond, one thing is absolutely certain: we’re watching the beginning of what could be a truly remarkable career.
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