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 of English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish heritage. Rachel began her acting career as a teenager and by the age of 13 was performing in Shakespearean performances at the summer theater camps. She then went on to graduate with distinction, earning the BFA degree in theater from York University. After her debut in an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998), she co-starred in the Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows (2003) in a comedy-drama focusing on the trials and tribulations of a Shakespearean theatre group. She also got a Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her breakthrough role in the role of Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly brought her to the top of the list of the most popular young actors. After that, she starred opposite Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). This was a huge hit at the box office and quickly became the most watched romantic drama for a young audience. McAdams and Gosling fell in love during filming, and continued to stay in touch up to the middle of 2007. McAdams continued to show her versatility on screen in the hilarious comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action thriller Red Eye (2005), as well as the holiday drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then took on the world of independent films with Married Life (2007), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and also starred Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. Starring roles in the military drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009) and the romantic The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) was followed by her role alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the determined producer for Morning Glory (2010). She also played the materialistic fiancee Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011). McAdams returned to romantic drama territory with The Vow (2012), where she played opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also starred alongside Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) and with Noomi Rapace in Brian de Palma's thriller Passion (2012).In 2005, McAdams received ShoWest's "Supporting Actress of the Year" Award and the "Breakthrough Actress of the Year" at the Hollywood Film Awards





 

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