Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on the 17th of November 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada Rachel Anne McAdams was the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), an RN and Lance Frederick McAdams, an auto driver and furniture moving. She is English-, Welsh-, Irishas well as Scottish. Rachel began acting at thirteen. She was already acting in Shakespearean plays at the summer theater camps. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. After her first appearance on TV on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson in 1998, Rachel appeared in Canadian television's Slings and Arrows 2003. This comedy-drama follows the struggle of Shakespearean theater groups. The actress was awarded an Gemini Award for her performance in 2003. Her first big role was in Mean Girls (2004) as Regina George instantly landed her on the Hollywood's hot list of promising young actors. Following that film she starred alongside Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). This was a huge hit at the box office , and was the most watched romantic drama for the young crowd. McAdams and Gosling fell in love during filming and continued to date until the middle of 2007. McAdams and Gosling soon were in a relationship and started to have a relationship. Starring roles 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 with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams played the shrewd producer in Morning Glory (2010). McAdams also played Owen Wilson's materialistic fiancee in Midnight in Paris (2011). McAdams then returned to romantic drama in The Vow (2012) with Channing Tatum. McAdams is also in the film with Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012) and Noomi Rapace is Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma’s thriller.