RACHEL MCADAMS

Rachel McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. She was born in London, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in St. Thomas in a Protestant family. She has two younger siblings. The younger sister, Kayleen McAdams (born in 1982), a celebrity makeup artist, and the younger brother, Daniel Dan McAdams, a personal trainer. McAdams is of Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh descent. The fifth great-grandfather of her mother, James Gray, was a Loyalist Ranger during the American Revolution and fled to Canada after the Battle of Saratoga.

After graduating from York University’s Bachelor of Drama program in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film production. In 2002, she made her first Hollywood movie appearance in the comedy “The Hot Chicken”. In 2015, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama “True Detective” and played the reporter Sasha Pfeiffer in the episode Spotlight. For the latter, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.