Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on 17 November 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), Nurse and Lance Frederick McAdams, an auto driver and furniture moving. Rachel is English, Welsh and Irish-born. Rachel started acting at the age of thirteen. She was already appearing in Shakespearean plays in summer theater camps. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After her debut in an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) She was a co-star in the Canadian television show Slings and Arrows (2003) in a comedy-drama focusing on the trials and travails of an Shakespearean theater group, and was awarded a Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her debut role as Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly made her a part of the short list of Hollywood's hottest young actresses. In the following film she starred alongside Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). This was a huge hit at the box-office and became the most loved romantic comedy with a young audience. McAdams and Gosling began to fall in love while filming and continued to be together up to the middle of 2007. McAdams next showcased her versatility in the screen with the raunchy comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action thriller Red Eye (2005), as well as the holiday drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then went on to explore the world of independent film through Married Life (2007), which debuted at Toronto Film Festival and also starred Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. She also starred in the military drama The Lucky Ones (2007) and the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009), and the romance The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) followed , before she appeared opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the determined producer of a failing morning show on TV in Morning Glory (2010), the attractive fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) as well as a return to the romantic drama genre in the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams is also in the film with Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) as well as alongside Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma's thriller Passion (2012).In 2005, McAdams received ShoWest's "Supporting Actress of the Year" Award and the "Breakthrough Actress of the Year" at the Hollywood Film Awards





 

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