Rachel McAdams - Gallery

Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1978) is a Canadian actress.

Rachel McAdams was born in London, Ontario and grew up in nearby St.Thomas. Her father, Lance, is a truck driver, and her mother, Sandra,is a nurse. She has a younger brother, Daniel, and younger half-sister,Kayleen.

At the age of four, she took up competitive figure skating. She took upacting at age thirteen at a summer theater camp. When the companyextended to a year-round company, she was invited to continue withthem. She attended Central Elgin Collegiate Institute in St. Thomasfrom grade nine to OAC and starred in the Award-winning studentproduction I Live in a Little Town. Later she graduated from YorkUniversity in Toronto with Honours and a BFA degree in Theatre. Duringher senior year at York, she played a child in The Piper – a workshopled by a creative team from Toronto's Necessary Angel Theatre Company.She also attended Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario, aswell as David Rothenberg's on-camera acting class in Toronto withfellow actors Scott Speedman, Kenneth Mitchell, Polly Shannon and DavidSutcliffe.