Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams is a Canadian actress.

Films: "Mean Girls", "The Notebook", "Morning Glory", "Sherlock Holmes" films, "About Time", "Midnight in Paris", "Southpaw".

TV: "True Detective".

She has been nominated for a Bafta, a Hollywood Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She was born in Ontario in 1978. She has dated actors Ryan Gosling, Michael Sheen and Josh Lucas in the past. She is a devoted environmentalist.

She lives in Toronto and she has stated: "The world has become so small these days and most films aren’t shot in Hollywood anymore, so there’s no point living there".

Her house is powered by Bullfrog renewable energy and she uses her bicycle on a daily basis. She does not own a car!

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.Rachel McAdams

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?Rachel McAdams

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.Rachel McAdams

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.Rachel McAdams

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.Rachel McAdams

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.Rachel McAdams

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.Rachel McAdams

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!Rachel McAdams

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.Rachel McAdams

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.Rachel McAdams

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.Rachel McAdams

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams is a famous Canadian actress, who was born on November 17, 1976. As a person born on this date, Rachel McAdams is listed in our database as the 1st most popular celebrity for the day (November 17) and the 2nd most popular for the year (1976).

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