Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams was born on the 17th of November 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada She was the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture moving company. She is English, Welsh and Irish-born. Rachel began acting when she was an teen. When she was 13 years old, she was performing in Shakespearean productions at summer camp for theater. Following graduation, Rachel received a BFA degree from York University in Theater. After appearing 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 Shakespearean theater group. In 2003, she won a Gemini award. Her performance as Regina George, in Mean Girls (2004) immediately made her a star on Hollywood's most sought-after young actors. After that, she starred opposite 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 loved romantic comedy for the young crowd. After the film was completed, McAdams and Gosling became engaged and started dating until the middle of 2007. McAdams and Gosling were soon in a relationship and started to get married. After appearing in The Lucky Ones, a military drama, State of Play, and The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) McAdams was a co-star with Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's global blockbuster Sherlock Holmes. McAdams was the shrewd producer for 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 starred opposite Channing Tatum. McAdams also stars alongside Terrence Malick in To the Wonder (2012) and Noomi Rapace as Passion (2012) in Brian De Palma’s thriller.