Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on the 17th of November 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada She was the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture moving. She is English--, Welsh-, Irish--, and Scottish. Rachel started acting at the age of thirteen. She was already acting in Shakespearean productions at summer theater camps. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After her debut on an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998), she co-starred in the Canadian television show Slings and Arrows (2003) in a comedy-drama focusing on the challenges and struggles of a Shakespearean theatre group. She also received a Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her debut role in the role of Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly brought her to the top of the list of Hollywood's hottest young actors. After that film she was cast as the opposite of Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). It was a smash at the box office and was soon the top romantic drama for a younger generation of moviegoers. McAdams and Gosling began to fall in love while filming and continued to date throughout 2007's middle. McAdams continued to show her versatility onscreen with the manic comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action thriller Red Eye (2005), as well as the holiday drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then explored the independent film world through Married Life (2007), which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival and also featured Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. Starring roles in the war drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009) and the romantic comedy The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) was followed by her role opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the shrewd 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 in The Vow (2012), in which she was a co-star with Channing Tatum. McAdams stars in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) with Ben Affleck and Noomi Rapacace in Brian De Palma's thriller Passion (2012).