Rachel McAdams was born November 17, 1978 and is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a four-year theater program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the dramatic film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a nomination. Genie Awards, the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the comedy series Slings and Arrows, for which she won a Gemini Award.

In 2002, she made her Hollywood cinema debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. McAdams became famous 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 dramatic comedy The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as the new Hollywood “it girl” and received a BAFTA Award nomination for best rising star.

After a brief sabbatical, she became famous again in 2009, appearing in the political thriller State of Play, the romance The Time Traveler’s Wife and the mysterious film Sherlock Holmes. In 2010 McAdams appeared in his first featured vehicle, the comedy Morning Glory, and then starred 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 crime drama series True Detective and portrayed journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight. For the latter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

McAdams lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She holds an American green card, but remarked, “The world has become so small these days, and most movies are no longer shot in Hollywood, so there is no reason to live there. ” Since 2018, she has shared her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.

McAdams and boyfriend Jamie Linden have a son