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 17th in 1978. Rachel is English, Welsh and Irish-born. Rachel became involved with acting as a teenager and, by 13 she was performing in Shakespearean performances at the summer theater camp. She later was able to graduate with distinction with a BFA degree in Theater at York University. After making her television debut in Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson in 1998, Rachel appeared in Canadian television's Slings and Arrows 2003. The comedy drama follows the struggle of Shakespearean theater groups. She won an award called the Gemini Award for her performance in 2003. Her first big role was in Mean Girls (2004) as Regina George instantly landed her in the top tier of Hollywood's list of young actors. After that 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 became the most loved romantic comedy with a young audience. McAdams and Gosling became lovers during filming and continued to date up to the middle of 2007. McAdams then showed her range in the screen with the raunchy 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. She also starred in the military drama The Lucky Ones (2007) as well as the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009) as well as the romantic drama The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) was followed by her role with 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 drama in The Vow (2012), which she co-starred with Channing Tatum. McAdams stars in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2012) alongside Ben Affleck and Noomi Rapacace in Brian De Palma's action thriller Passion (2012).