Rachel Anne McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams is the daughter of
Sandra Kay (Gale), an Ontario nurse and Lance Frederick McAdams a truck driver
as well as furniture moving. Her birthplace was in London, Ontario on November
17 1978. Rachel is of English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish heritage. Rachel
started acting as a teenager. When she was 13 years old, she was a part of
Shakespearean productions at summer theatre camps. Following graduation, Rachel
received a BFA degree from York University in Theater. After her debut on
television on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson in 1998, she starred on Canadian
television's Slings and Arrows 2003. The comedy drama follows the struggles of
Shakespearean theater groups. She won the Gemini Award for her performance in
2003. Her breakthrough role in Mean Girls (2004) as Regina George instantly
landed her on the list of Hollywood's most sought-after of young actors. The
film was followed by the role of a major character opposite Ryan Gosling in the
adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller The Notebook (2004) that was a
surprise box office success that became the most popular romantic drama for a
new younger generation of moviegoers. McAdams had a meeting with Gosling during
filming. They began dating until mid-2007. McAdams' next film was the comedy
Wedding Crashers (2006), the thriller Red Eye (2004), and the Christmas drama
The Family Stone ((2005)). McAdams also explored independent film through
Married Life (2007) which premiered at Toronto Film Festival. It also featured
Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper, as well as Patricia Clarkson. The role she
played in the war drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of
Play (2009) and the romantic The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) was the next film
to follow, and she then starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy
Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the
determined producer of Morning Glory (2010). She also was the fiancee with a
materialistic character Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011).
McAdams returned to romantic drama in The Vow (2012), which she starred
opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams appears in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder
(2012) alongside Ben Affleck and Noomi Rapacace in Brian De Palma's action
thriller Passion (2012).
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