Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the comedy series Slings and Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award.
In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and the comedy-drama The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood’s new “it girl”, and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Rising Star.
After a brief sabbatical, she returned to prominence in 2009, by appearing in the political thriller State of Play, the romance The Time Traveler’s Wife, and the 2009 mystery film Sherlock Holmes. In 2010, McAdams appeared in the star vehicle comedy film Morning Glory, and went on to star in the films Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). In 2015, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective, and portrayed the journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight. For the latter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), and the comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020).
Rachel McAdams Biography / Wiki
Name | Rachel McAdams |
Also Know | |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | London, Ontario, Canada |
Date of Birth | 1978-11-17 |
Age(as in 2022) | 43 |
Deathday |
Rachel McAdams Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Notebook | Allison “Allie” Hamilton | 2004-06-25 | An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer’s. From a faded notebook, the old man’s words bring to life … |
Red Eye | Lisa Reisert | 2005-08-19 | A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her capt… |
Morning Glory | Becky Fuller | 2010-11-10 | A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently fa… |
The Vow | Paige Collins | 2012-02-05 | Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th… |
Passion | Christine Stanford | 2012-09-07 | The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to… |
Sonic Sea | Narrator (voice) | 2016-04-22 | The devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life…. |
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga | Sigrit Ericksdottir | 2020-06-26 | Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps te… |
The Making of ‘Red Eye’ | Self | 2006-01-10 | … |
Mean Girls | Regina George | 2004-04-30 | Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyf… |
The Hot Chick | Jessica Spencer / Clive Maxtone | 2002-12-13 | Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school — she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak acciden… |
The Time Traveler’s Wife | Clare Abshire | 2009-08-14 | Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true lov… |
The Lucky Ones | Colee Dunn | 2008-09-26 | The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has… |
My Name Is Tanino | Sally Garfield | 2002-09-05 | During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to … |
Midnight in Paris | Inez | 2011-05-11 | A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusi… |
About Time | Mary | 2013-09-04 | The night after another unsatisfactory New Year’s party, Tim’s father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel t… |
Every Thing Will Be Fine | Sara | 2015-02-10 | One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Wi… |
Southpaw | Maureen Hope | 2015-03-24 | Billy “The Great” Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle… |
Disobedience | Esti Kuperman | 2017-09-10 | A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood fri… |
Game Night | Annie Davis | 2018-02-22 | Max and Annie’s weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max’s brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party — complete with fake thugs and fed… |
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret | Barbara Simon | 2023-04-28 | When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence…. |
Sherlock Holmes | Irene Adler | 2009-01-01 | Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy … |
To the Wonder | Jane | 2013-02-22 | After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church’s Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, w… |
State of Play | Della Frye | 2009-04-17 | When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend…. |
Spotlight | Sacha Pfeiffer | 2015-11-06 | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking … |
Aloha | Tracy Woodside | 2015-05-29 | A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling f… |
The Little Prince | The Mother (voice) | 2015-07-29 | Based on the best-seller book ‘The Little Prince’, the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency … |
Perfect Pie | Patsy Grady (age 15) | 2002-09-11 | On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesca Prine – whose real name is Marie Beck – returns… |
Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented | Herself – Irene Adler | 2010-03-30 | Making of featurette for Sherlock Holmes (2009)…. |
Doctor Strange | Dr. Christine Palmer | 2016-10-25 | After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de… |
Wedding Crashers | Claire Cleary | 2005-07-13 | John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman’s hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: cra… |
A Most Wanted Man | Annabel Richter | 2014-07-25 | A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential… |
Married Life | Kay Nesbitt | 2007-09-12 | A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu… |
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Irene Adler | 2011-11-22 | There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack o… |
The Family Stone | Amy Stone | 2005-12-15 | An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family’s annual Christmas celebration and finds that sh… |
Guilt by Association | Danielle Mason | 2002-03-13 | Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug deale… |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Dr. Christine Palmer | 2022-05-04 | Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to c… |
The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self – Dr. Christine Palmer | 2022-07-08 | Join visionary director Sam Raimi and the cast of the film as they recount their experiences bringing Marvel’s darkest story to life. From world-bu… |
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