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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