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 1977. She is Englishand is Welsh- -, Irish-, and Scottish. Rachel started acting at the age of thirteen. Already, she was performing in Shakespearean productions at summer theater camp. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After her debut on the episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) She was a co-star in the Canadian television series Slings and Arrows (2003) which was a comedy-drama that focused on the trials and travails of the Shakespearean theater troupe, and won an award called a Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her breakout role in the role of Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly brought her to the top of the list of the top Hollywood's young actors. After the film, she was cast as the opposite of Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). It was a big hit at the box office and quickly became the leading romantic drama for a new generation of moviegoers. McAdams and Gosling began to fall in love while filming and continued to date throughout 2007's middle. McAdams was then able to showcase her talents in the screen with the raunchy comedy Wedding Crashers (2005), the action thriller Red Eye (2005), and the holiday-themed drama The Family Stone (2005).McAdams then began exploring the world of independent cinema through Married Life (2007), which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival and also starred 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) as well as the romantic drama 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 portrayed the plucky producer in Morning Glory (2010). McAdams also played Owen Wilson's romantic fiancee in Midnight in Paris (2011). McAdams then returned to the romantic drama genre with The Vow (2012) with Channing Tatum. McAdams also appears alongside Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012), and Noomi Rapace is Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma’s thriller.