Rachel Anne McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams is the daughter of Sandra Kay (Gale), an Ontario nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams a truck driver as well as furniture movers. Her birthplace was in London, Ontario on November 17th in 1978. Rachel is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel began acting as a teenager. By the age 13 she was participating in Shakespearean productions at the summer theater camps. Following graduation, Rachel received a BFA degree from York University in Theater. After her role in Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson episode (1998) and later, she appeared in Slings and Arrows, a Canadian comedy-drama that follows the trials and triumphs of the Slings and Arrows Shakespearean theater group. In 2003, she won an award called a Gemini award. Her role as Regina George, in Mean Girls (2004), instantly made her a star on Hollywood's most sought-after young actors. After the film, she was cast alongside Ryan Gosling in The Notebook (2004). It was a smash in the box office and was soon the top romantic drama for the new generation of moviegoers. After filming, McAdams and Gosling became romantically linked and began dating through the middle of 2007. McAdams is next in film with comedy Wedding Crashers (2006), the thriller Red Eye (2004), as well as the holiday-themed drama The Family Stone ((2005)). McAdams also explored independent filmmaking through Married Life (2007) which premiered at Toronto Film Festival. It also featured Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper, as well as Patricia Clarkson. After appearing in The Lucky Ones, a military drama State of Play, and The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) McAdams starred alongside Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie's international blockbuster Sherlock Holmes. McAdams was the fiery producer of a failed morning television show in Morning Glory (2010), the romantic fiancee of materialistic Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) as well as a return to the romantic drama genre in the hit film The Vow (2012) opposite Channing Tatum. The actress also stars with Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012) and also alongside Noomi Rapace in Brian de Palma's thriller Passion (2012).In 2005, McAdams received ShoWest's "Supporting Actress of the Year" Award as well as the "Breakthrough Actress of the Year" at the Hollywood Film Awards





 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Aisha Hinds and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Emma Stone

Jason Nash