Biography
The blonde, slim, good-looking Rachel McAdams started
on Canadian TV before she went to Hollywood.
Playing the bitchy teen queen in her first roles in
The Hot Chick and Mean Girls, since then she
moved to playing more sympathetic roles in
The Notebook and Wedding
Crashers.
Rachel was born in London, Ontario (Canada)
on 7th October 1976. Her father a truck driver
and her mother a nurse, little Rachel already
came into the spotlight aged four years old - in competitive skating.
Beginning acting on stage at the age of 13, she soon studied theater
at York University. A role as a bulimic teen in the Disney TV Series
The Famous Jett Jackson was her debut, and supporting roles in TV-series
like Shotgun Love Dolls and made-for-TV movies followed.
After being nominated for a Genie award (the Canadian "Oscar")
for Perfect Pie in 2002, Rachel went to Hollywood and had her first
Hollywood role in The Hot Chick. One TV-series later, she went back
to Highschool (at least in the movies - Mean Girls).
In 2004, she starred in The Notebook, the screen adaptation of
Nichols Spark's novel, and in 2005, she co-starred in The
Wedding Crashers with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn and had her
first real lead role in Red
Eye. |
