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 moving. She was born in London, Ontario on November 17th 1977. She is Englishas well as Welsh-, Irish-, and Scottish. Rachel began acting at thirteen. She was already performing in Shakespearean plays at the summer theater camp. Rachel graduated with honors from York University with a BFA in Theater. Following her first appearance in an episode of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) She was a co-star in the Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows (2003) A comedy-drama about the trials and tribulations of a Shakespearean theater troupe, and received the Gemini award for her performance in 2003.Her breakthrough role in the role of Regina George in the hit comedy Mean Girls (2004) instantly catapulted her onto the short list of Hollywood's hottest young actors. Following that film she co-starred with Ryan Gosling as the romantic drama adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Notebook (2004). This was a huge success in the box office and quickly became the most popular romantic drama for the young crowd. After filming, McAdams and Gosling became romantically linked and began dating through the middle of 2007. McAdams and Gosling soon were together and began to get married. She also starred in the war drama The Lucky Ones (2007), the newspaper thriller State of Play (2009), and the romance The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) followed , before she appeared with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009). McAdams was the plucky 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 co-starred with Channing Tatum. McAdams also starred alongside Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) and alongside Noomi Rapace in Brian de Palma's thriller Passion (2012).In 2005, McAdams received ShoWest's "Supporting Actress of the Year" Award and the "Breakthrough Actress of the Year" at the Hollywood Film Awards