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. Her birthplace was in London, Ontario on November 17th 1977. She is English, Welsh and Irish-born. Rachel began acting at thirteen. She was already appearing in Shakespearean plays during summer theatre camp. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After making her television debut on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson in 1998, Rachel starred in Canadian TV's Slings and Arrows 2003. This comedy-drama follows the struggle of Shakespearean theater groups. She won an Gemini Award for her performance in 2003. Her breakthrough role in Mean Girls (2004) as Regina George instantly landed her on the Hollywood's hot list of promising young actors. She followed that film with the role of a major character opposite Ryan Gosling in the adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller The Notebook (2004) The Notebook was a huge box office hit and quickly became the main romantic drama for a new younger generation of moviegoers. Following filming, McAdams and Gosling became romantically involved and dated through the middle of 2007. McAdams' next film was the comedy Wedding Crashers (2006), the action thriller Red Eye (2004), as well as the holiday-themed drama The Family Stone ((2005)). McAdams also explored independent films with Married Life (2007) which was screened at the Toronto Film Festival. It also included Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper in addition to Patricia Clarkson. McAdams starred in The Lucky Ones (2007) and State of Play (2008) as well as State of Play (2008). She also starred in the film The Time Traveler's Wife(2009) and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's international hit Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the fiery producer of a failed morning show on TV in Morning Glory (2010), the materialistic fiancee of Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and returned to the romantic drama genre with the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams plays the lead role in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) together with Ben Affleck and Noomi Rapacace in Brian De Palma's thriller Passion (2012).