Rachel Anne McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams was born on 17
November 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada she was the daughter of Sandra Kay
(Gale), Nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture moving
company. Rachel is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel began
her acting career in her teens and, by 13 was performing in Shakespearean
performances at the summer theater camps. She completed her studies with honors
, earning the BFA degree in theater from York University. After appearing in the
Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson episode (1998) She starred in Slings and
Arrows, a Canadian comedy-drama which follows the struggles and triumphs of the
Slings and Arrows Shakespearean theatre group. In 2003, she won a Gemini award.
Her performance as Regina George, in Mean Girls (2004), instantly was a hit on
Hollywood's most sought-after young actors. After that film she was cast as the
opposite of Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). It was a huge success in the
box office and quickly became the leading romantic drama for a younger
generation of moviegoers. McAdams and Gosling were in love during filming and
continued dating until the middle of 2007. McAdams continued to show her
versatility on the screen with the comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action
thriller Red Eye (2005), as well as the holiday drama The Family Stone
(2005).McAdams then began exploring the world of independent cinema through
Married Life (2007), which debuted at Toronto Film Festival and also featured
Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. She also starred in the
military drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of Play
(2009), and the romance The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) followed , before she
appeared in the role of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's
international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the plucky
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 dramatic territory in The Vow (2012), which she starred
opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams is also a part of Terrence Malick in To the
Wonder (2012) and Noomi Rapace as Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma’s thriller.
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