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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