Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on the 17th of November 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada She was the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), an RN and Lance Frederick McAdams who is 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. Following her first appearance in an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) She was a co-star in the Canadian television series Slings and Arrows (2003) A comedy-drama about the trials and travails of the Shakespearean theater troupe, and won an Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her debut role as Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly brought her to the top of the list of the top Hollywood's young actors. In the following film she starred alongside Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). The Notebook was a huge success in the box-office and became the most popular romantic drama with a young audience. Following filming, McAdams and Gosling became intimate and started dating by mid-2007. McAdams' next film was comedy Wedding Crashers (2006), the thriller Red Eye (2004), as well as the holiday-themed drama The Family Stone ((2005)). McAdams also explored independent filmmaking through Married Life (2007) which premiered at Toronto Film Festival. It also featured Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. After her role in The Lucky Ones, a military drama, State of Play, and The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) McAdams also starred alongside Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's global blockbuster Sherlock Holmes. McAdams played the plucky producer of a failing morning television show in Morning Glory (2010), the sexy fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) Then she returned to romantic drama in the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also stars alongside Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012) as well as Noomi Rapace in Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma's film thriller.





 

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