Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978 is a Canadian actress. Her breakout role was for portraying the "Queen Bee," Regina George, in the 2004 hit film Mean Girls. She then starred in the film adaptation of The Notebook and the hit comedy Wedding Crashers. Her other film credits include The Family Stone, Red Eye and The Time Traveler's Wife. More recently she starred in Guy Ritchie's 2009 adaptation of Sherlock Holmes as Irene Adler and in 2010's Morning Glory as Becky Fuller.
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Awards and achievements
4 Personal life
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links
Rachel McAdams was born in London, Ontario and grew up in the nearby city of St. Thomas. She has a younger brother, Daniel, and a younger sister, Kayleen. She took up competitive figure skating at the age of four and acting at age 12 at a summer theatre camp in St. Thomas, Ontario named Original Kids. When the company extended to a year-round company (and eventually relocated to London, Ontario), she was invited to continue with them. She attended the Myrtle Street Public Schooland the publicly-funded secondary school Central Elgin Collegiate Institute in St. Thomas from grade nine to OAC and starred in the Award-winning student production I Live in a Little city. She graduated from York University in Toronto with honours and a BFA degree in Theatre in 2001. During her fourth year at York, she played a child in "The Piper."
McAdams with Robert Downey, Jr. at San Diego Comic-Con, July 2009.
McAdams played a leading role in the film The Hot Chick alongside Rob Schneider, but her breakthrough occurred when she starred as Regina George, the school's popular prom queen, in 2004's Mean Girls. McAdams had previously appeared in the Canadian television series Slings and Arrows, co-starring Paul Gross. She played a main role in the first season, but due to her rising stardom was written out of the second season, and appeared only in the first episode. She followed Mean Girls with the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel The Notebook, with Ryan Gosling, with whom she would later begin an off-screen romance
In 2005, she played Owen Wilson's love interest in Wedding Crashers. Wedding Crashers remains her highest domestic grossing film at over $209 million She next starred in the suspense thriller Red Eye as Lisa Reisert, playing a young woman held captive aboard a red-eye flight by criminal-for-hire and assassin Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy). Red Eye was directed by Wes Craven and proved to be a surprise late summer hit, garnering a critics score of 79% on Rotten TomatoesMcAdams also starred in The Family Stone as part of an ensemble cast alongside Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Brian J. White and Claire Danes. She auditioned for the role of Sue Storm in Fantastic Four, but lost the part to Jessica Alba
McAdams' career slowed down in 2006. She originally signed on as the female lead in The Last Kiss but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, and the role was given to Jacinda Barrett. She later decided to take the year off from acting and spend time with friends and family. McAdams then agreed to star in the drama Married Life with Pierce Brosnan and Patricia Clarkson. She turned down the role of Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale as well as Anne Hathaway's role in The Devil Wears Prada and a significant role in Mission: Impossible III.
McAdams opted out of a cover shoot for Vanity Fair—in which she was to appear alongside two other young Hollywood actresses, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley—upon finding out it was to be nude. When McAdams appeared on set and discovered it was nude, she politely declined, according to Knightley In an interview with PARADE Magazine, McAdams stated, "When you're playing a fictional character, it's as normal and mundane as eating breakfast. What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet
McAdams arrives at The Lucky Ones premiere during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.
McAdams starred in three major studio releases in 2009. She first starred in the political thriller State of Play alongside Academy Award winners Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe and Helen Mirren. McAdams also played the title role of Clare Abshire in The Time Traveler's Wife opposite Eric Bana, which was released on August 14, 2009. The film was based on Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel of the same name. In a film released on Christmas Day of that year, McAdams starred in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic stories. McAdams played the role of Irene Adler alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law.
McAdams co-starred with Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford and Jeff Goldblum in Morning Glory, released in the US on November 10, 2010 The movie opened in fifth place for its opening weekend, grossing $9.2 million McAdams has been widely praised for her role as Becky Fuller, a breakfast television (A.M. morning TV) producer, in the film
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