Rachel McAdams

Known for ActingBorn 1978-11-17 (age 47)London, Ontario, Canada

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 & 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 hiatus, McAdams gained further prominence starring in the films The Time Traveller's Wife (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). For her portrayal of journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight (2015), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016) and its sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), the comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), and the comedy-drama Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). On television, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective (2015), earning a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane (2024), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel McAdams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

True Detective

What If...?

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

About Time

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Spotlight

The Notebook

The Little Prince

Explained

Midnight in Paris

Doctor Strange

Marvel Studios Legends

DAVE

Southpaw

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Slings & Arrows

The Vow

Send Help

Sherlock Holmes

The Graham Norton Show

Mean Girls

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Sonic Sea

Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented

Disobedience

Game Night

The Time Traveler's Wife

State of Play

Who Do You Think You Are?

Earth: Final Conflict

Saturday Night Live

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

A Most Wanted Man

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Wedding Crashers

The Oscars

Morning Glory

The Lucky Ones

Red Eye

The Hot Chick

The Family Stone

My Name Is Tanino

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

To the Wonder

Married Life

The Ellen DeGeneres Show