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), Nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams who is an auto driver and furniture mover. Rachel is English, Welsh and Irish-born. Rachel started acting at thirteen. She was already acting in Shakespearean plays in summer theater camps. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After making her debut on the Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) and co-starred on the Canadian TV show Slings and Arrows (2003) in a comedy-drama focusing on the trials and travails of an Shakespearean theater group. She won the Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her breakthrough role as Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly made her a part of the short list of the top Hollywood's young actors. In the following film, she starred opposite 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 loved romantic drama for the young crowd. McAdams was introduced to Gosling while filming. They were a couple until the middle of 2007. McAdams was then able to showcase her talents in the screen with the raunchy comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action thriller Red Eye (2005), and the Christmas drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then took on the world of independent films with Married Life (2007), that debuted at the 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 also starred alongside Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's global blockbuster Sherlock Holmes. McAdams was the plucky producer of Morning Glory (2010). She also played the materialistic fiancee Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011). McAdams returned to romantic drama with The Vow (2012), in which she was a co-star with Channing Tatum. McAdams also appears alongside Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012) as well as Noomi Rapace is Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma's thriller.





 

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