Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams is the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), an Ontario nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams a truck driver and furniture mover. Her birthplace was in London, Ontario on November 17 in 1978. She is Englishand is Welsh- -, Irish--, and Scottish. Rachel began acting as an teen. By the age 13 she was participating in Shakespearean productions at the summer theatre camps. Following graduation, Rachel received a BFA degree from York University in Theater. After her role in Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson episode (1998) in which she was a lead in Slings and Arrows, a Canadian comedy-drama that chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the Slings and Arrows Shakespearean theater group. In 2003, she won the Gemini award. Her performance as Regina George, in Mean Girls (2004) instantly was a hit on Hollywood's most sought-after young actresses. In the following film she co-starred with Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). This was a huge hit at the box office and became the most popular romantic drama for an audience of young people. Following filming, McAdams and Gosling became romantically linked and began dating through the middle of 2007. McAdams' next film was the comedy Wedding Crashers (2006), the action thriller Red Eye (2004), and the Christmas drama The Family Stone ((2005)). McAdams also explored independent cinema through Married Life (2007) which was premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It also featured Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper along with Patricia Clarkson. McAdams starred in The Lucky Ones (2007) and State of Play (2008) in State of Play (2008) and The Lucky Ones (2007), respectively. McAdams also appeared in The Time Traveler's Wife(2009) and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's global hit Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the fiery producer of a failed morning TV show in Morning Glory (2010), the attractive fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) Then she returned to romantic drama territory in the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also appears alongside Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) and alongside 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