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. She was born in London, Ontario on November 17th
1977. She is English--, Welsh-, Irishand Scottish. Rachel began her acting
career as a teenager and by the age of 13 she was starring in Shakespearean
performances at the summer theater camp; she graduated with distinction,
earning the BFA degree in Theater at York University. After appearing in the
Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson episode (1998) in which she was a lead in
Slings and Arrows, a Canadian comedy-drama which follows the struggles and
triumphs of an Shakespearean theater group. In 2003, she won an award called a
Gemini award. The role of Regina George, in Mean Girls (2004), instantly earned
her the attention of Hollywood's most coveted young actresses. After the film,
she was paired with Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). It was a smash at the
box office and soon became the most popular romantic drama for the younger
generation of moviegoers. Following the film's production, McAdams and Gosling
became engaged and started dating until mid-2007. McAdams was then able to
showcase her talents on screen in the hilarious comedy Wedding Crashers (2005),
the action thriller Red Eye (2005), and the holiday-themed drama The Family
Stone (2005).McAdams then began exploring the world of independent cinema
through Married Life (2007), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and
also starred Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. Her roles as a
star in the war drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of
Play (2009) and the romantic The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) followed , before
she appeared alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's
international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams played the plucky
producer of a failing morning show on TV in Morning Glory (2010), the
attractive fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011),
and returned to romantic drama territory with the cult film The Vow (2012)
opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also appears alongside Terrence Malick in To
the Wonder (2012), and Noomi Rapace plays Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma's
thriller.
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