Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on November 17, 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), an RN and Lance Frederick McAdams, truck driver and furniture mover. She 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 on television on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson in 1998, Rachel appeared in Canadian TV's Slings and Arrows 2003. The comedy drama follows the struggle of Shakespearean theater groups. Rachel was awarded the Gemini Award for her performance in 2003. The role she played in Mean Girls (2004) as Regina George instantly landed her in the top tier of Hollywood's list of young actors. After the film, she was cast as the opposite of Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). The Notebook was a big hit at the box office and was soon the top romantic drama for a new generation of filmgoers. McAdams and Gosling began to fall in love while filming, and continued to stay in touch throughout 2007's middle. McAdams was then able to showcase her talents onscreen with the manic comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the thriller Red Eye (2005), as well as the holiday drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then began exploring the world of independent cinema through Married Life (2007), which debuted at Toronto Film Festival and also featured Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. Following her roles in The Lucky Ones, a military drama State of Play, and The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) McAdams was a co-star with Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's blockbuster international Sherlock Holmes. McAdams played the plucky producer of a failing morning television show in Morning Glory (2010), the materialistic fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and returned to the romantic drama genre in the critically acclaimed film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also stars alongside Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012) and Noomi Rapace in Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma's thriller.






 

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