Rachel McAdams
Full Name: Rachel McAdams
Height: 5’5” (1.65m)
Date of Birth: October 7th, 1976
Current Age: 29
Star sign: Libra
Place of Birth: St. Josephs Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada
Eye Colour: Blue
Tattoos: Lower back
Favourite colour: Purple
Favourite designers: Rachel loves to shop at vintage clothing stores
Allergies: Horses
Education: Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario, Canada
York University, Toronto
Family: Father – Lance McAdams
Mother – Sandy McAdams
Sister – Kayleen McAdams
Brother – Daniel McAdams
Occupation: Actress
Filmography: The Family Stone (2005) playing Amy Stone
Red Eye (2005) playing Lisa Reisert
Wedding Crashers (2005) playing Claire Cleary
The Notebook (2004) playing Allie Hamilton
Mean Girls (2004) playing Regina George
The Hot Chick (2002) playing Jessica
Perfect Pie (2002) playing Patsy
My name is Tanino (2002) playing Sally Garfield
Her family History: Rachel’s father Lance is a truck driver and her mother Sandy is a nurse.
Interesting Facts about Rachel:
Rachel won her
first acting award in 1995 for her role in ‘I live in a little town’ which was
one of her school plays
During Rachel’s
senior year at York
University,
she played a child in ‘The Piper’
Rachel worked at
McDonalds for 3 summers
Rachel took up
figure skating when she was 4 years old and competed throughout her high school
years
Rachel wore a
wig and a fat suit in ‘Mean Girs’
During filming
of ‘The Notebook’ the cast and crew had to put up with terrible weather
conditions, particularly during the boat scene where Rachel is drenched soaking
wet in the middle of winter. But Rachel insisted on continuing scenes until they
were “perfect”
Rachel beat actresses like Reese Witherspoon and Ashley Judd to the role of
Allie in ‘The Notebook’ by “blowing the producers away” when she walked into the
audition room
Rachel missed
out on the role of Sue Storm in ‘The Fantastic Four’ to Jessica Alba
Rachel brought
her family onto the talk show ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ with her
She still lives in
Canada
with her family
She received a
record 5 MTV Movie award nominations in 1 year and won 3
Rachel donated
signed head-shots to Rocky Stone to be auctioned off to raise money to buy more
toys for less fortunate children as part of the
Toy
Mountain
campaign
Rachel was born
in the same hospital as her ‘Notebook’ costar Ryan Gosling
Rachel is a
natural blonde but frequently changes her hair colour
On the first day
of filming ‘The Hot Chick’ Rachel crashed the yellow bug that she had to drive
Rachel said she
would be a secretary if she wasn’t an actress because she “loves paper clips and
staplers”
Rachel finds
petroleum jelly in “lip stuff” addictive so she prefers to use natural products
She once worked at a Golf Course
Rachel performed
in Shakesperean productions in summer theatre camp
Rachel studied
cultural studies before theatre
Rachel used to
be a vegetarian
Rachel is of Irish Descent
She attends David Rothenberg’s on-camera acting class along with actors Scott
Speedman, Kenneth Mitchell and Polly Shannon
Rachel is dating 'The Notebook' co-star Ryan Gosling
Rachel’s Personal Quotes:
“As strange as movie making is, doing love scenes for the first time with someone you've never even said hello to does work in terms of having a fresh quality to a relationship.”
“I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.”
“It takes a lot of time, commitment and a choice. I've chosen this path, but it's not to say I'm not open to love or whatever comes my way. You never close doors.”
“The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there. And then ran into him and, "Oh my God, you work here? I had no idea." It's the most manipulative thing I've done in my entire life, but it all worked out very well, so I have no regrets.”
"I still live in Canada, so it's not quite the same. And when I'm in L.A., I'm in a car you don't have the contact with the public. It's not so bad. It's still pretty much the same. I still feel pretty normal-ish."
“The most romantic thing, a lovely boy bought me a dress once. He got my measurements, actually they were from The Notebook and I had them sitting somewhere, and he found them and bought me this dress, tailor-made, this beautiful little black cocktail dress. And I thought that was very, very classy.”
"I want to try a lot of things that I haven't tried. You know, I did a thriller Red Eye after this, because it was so different and it was a genre I hadn't worked in yet. Then I did a beautiful family ensemble drama. And next? I don't know. I might go off to do a small independent in New York. I'm not sure. The quality of material is important, but, basically, I'm open to anything. I like to stay open to anything".
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