Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was conceived on November 17, 1978 in London (Ontario, Canada) to Sandra Kay (Gale), who is a nurse, along with Lance Frederick McAdams who is a truck driver/furniture mover. She is Englishand is Welsh-, Irishand Scottish. Rachel started acting as a teenager. At 13 she was performing in Shakespearean performances at summer theatre camps. Following graduation, Rachel received a BFA degree from York University in Theater. Following her first appearance in an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) In 1998, she starred as a co-star on the Canadian television show Slings and Arrows (2003) A comedy-drama about the challenges and struggles of the members of a Shakespearean theatre group. She also got an award called a Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her performance as Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly catapulted her onto the short list of Hollywood's hottest young actresses. In the following film she starred alongside Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). The Notebook was a huge success at the box office , and was the most watched romantic drama with a young audience. McAdams and Gosling began to fall in love while filming and continued to be together up to the middle of 2007. McAdams then showed her range 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 with Married Life (2007), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and also featured Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson. The role she played in the war drama The Lucky Ones (2007) and the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009) and the romantic comedy 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 shrewd producer of a failing morning TV show in Morning Glory (2010), the romantic fiancee of materialistic Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) as well as a return to romantic drama with the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams appears in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) with Ben Affleck and Noomi Rapacace in Brian De Palma's action thriller Passion (2012).