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Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams was born on 17th November 1978. She is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her films such as Mean Girls, The Notebook and The Time Traveller's Wife. McAdam's received awards such as Popular Acclaim for films Mean Girls & The Notebook. She also won the MTV Award Best Kiss for The Notebook. And in April 2009 received Female Star of The Year by ShoWest.



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Rachel McAdams - news / articles


  • McAdams: 'Love story couple is still together' - 7 February 2012
    -The real-life couple played by Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in new romantic drama The Vow are still together after a car crash nearly destroyed their marriage.-In the film, Tatum's character has to fight to win back his wife, played by McAdams, after she loses her


  • Channing stuns McAdams with cheeky prank - 30 January 2012
    -Channing Tatum gave Rachel McAdams a shock on the set of their new movie The Vow - by flashing an enormous fake penis at her.-The two stars play a struggling couple in the upcoming drama and shot a scene during which G.I. Joe star Tatum was required to walk around a be


  • McAdams tried to get out of Morning Glory role - 24 November 2010
    -Rachel McAdams tried to dissuade director Roger Michell from casting her in his movie Morning Glory - because she was terrified she would "let him down" in the lead role.- -The actress admits she was "nervous" about portraying an upstart TV producer in the comedy and e

Rachel McAdams - what members say


  • Mean Girls
  • Mean Girls review by A customer from Manchester
    Rated - 5.0 stars LOVE IT, haters know yourself 18 March 2007
    ...ct.This was a classic modern teen movie,the new 'Clueless' of the new millenium.Rachel McAdams and her posse will become iconic amongst the teens of today. ...   Read customer review
  • The Notebook
  • The Notebook review by from Totteridge, London
    Rated - 4.0 stars One For The Notebook 3 February 2005
    ...e story line is a familiar one, Ryan Gosling (so excellent in The Believer) and Rachel McAdams (ditto Mean Girls) inject so much heart into a movie about the heart, that it i...   Read customer review
  • Wedding Crashers
  • Wedding Crashers review by from Surrey, UK.
    Rated - 3.0 stars Crashers! 31 July 2006
    ...omedy. A good fun film. Vince Vaughn acts well and gives quite a few laughs, Rachel McAdams, wow where did she come from, what a stunner and a good actress as well. Hope t...   Read customer review

Rachel McAdams - filmography


  • The Vow (2012)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Channing Tatum,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Michael Sucsy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A husband endeavors to win back his new bride's heart after she loses her memory in a tragic car accident in this romantic drama starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 192 members
    Due for release on 23rd July 2012
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  • Midnight in Paris on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Marion Cotillard,  Michael Sheen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £3.49
    A romantic comedy about a family travelling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,862 members
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  • Morning Glory - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Harrison Ford,  50 Cent
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Produced by J.J. Abrams, director Roger Michell's comedic glimpse into the cutthroat world of live television finds a desperate female news producer (Rachel McAdams) attempting to put out the flames between an anchorman (Harrison Ford) and his blustery but iconic co-host (Diane Keaton) in a last-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,122 members
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  • State of Play on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Ben Affleck,  Russell Crowe
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe plays D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey, whose street smarts lead him to untangle a mystery of murder ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 45,321 members
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  • The Time Traveler's Wife on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Rachel McAdams,  Ron Livingston
    Director: Robert Schwentke
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future with the beautiful young heiress he loves. Eric ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 48,709 members
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  • Sherlock Holmes on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Jude Law,  Rachel McAdams
    Director: Guy Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    On a quest to solve a string of mysterious and brutal murders, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusted ally Watson (Jude Law) plunge into a world of dark arts and startling new technologies, where logic, and a good right hook, are the best crime fighting weapons. Explosive action, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 72,607 members
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  • State Of Play - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Jason Bateman,  Robin Wright,  Russell Crowe
    Director: Kevin Macdonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan for this American adaptation of the hit BBC miniseries concerning the suspicious circumstances that set a rising congressman and a dogged reporter on a dangerous collision course. U.S. congressman ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,239 members
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  • The Lucky Ones on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Tim Robbins,  Michael Pena
    Director: Neil Burger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancée. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,790 members
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  • The Family Stone on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker,  Claire Danes,  Diane Keaton
    Director: Bezucha Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sarah Jessica Parker stars as an uptight business-focused New Yorker who meets her boyfriend's family for the first time. She finds herself like a fish out of water when the Stone family turns out to be anything but conventional...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 33,433 members
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  • Red Eye (2005)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Cillian Murphy,  Brian Cox
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A hitman terrorises Lisa, a passenger on board a flight to Miami. His business is killing and his latest contract involves a wealthy businessman. He needs Lisa's help to fulfil the contract.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 47,704 members
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  • Wedding Crashers on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Vince Vaughn,  Rachel McAdams
    Director: David Dobkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Beckwith and Jeremy Klein, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Clearly.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 93,238 members
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  • The Notebook (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 31,610 members
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  • The Notebook - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 2,099 members
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  • Mean Girls on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Lindsay Lohan,  Rachel McAdams,  Tina Fey
    Director: Mark S. Waters,  Mark Waters
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this survival-of-the-fittest teen comedy, high school is a dangerous jungle seething with teenagers who prey on each other like wild animals. The non-stop jokes are hilariously rewarding as they exaggerate adolescent vanity and satirize political correctness issues like race, class, and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 34,441 members
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  • The Hot Chick on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  Anna Faris,  Eric Christian Olsen
    Director: Tom Brady
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Rob Schneider is the titular chick, Jessica, a stuck-up high school prom queen who wakes up one morning trapped in the body of an unattractive 30-year-old man. Thanks to a curse attached to some ancient earrings, Jessica has changed bodies and now must convince hot chick pals April (Anna Faris, of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,718 members
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Rachel McAdams facts

5 most recent films

The Vow - 3.5 stars
The Vow - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Midnight in Paris - 3.5 stars
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows - 3.5 stars
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Notebook - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Notebook - 3.5 stars
Sherlock Holmes - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Vow - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Vow - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Married Life - 2.5 stars
Red Eye - 3.0 stars
The Family Stone - 3.0 stars
The Hot Chick - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jude Law - 7 times - show films
Kelly Reilly - 7 times - show films
Eddie Marsan - 7 times - show films
Robert Downey Jr. - 6 times - show films
Jame McLean - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Guy Ritchie - 9 times - show films
Robert Schwentke - 4 times - show films
Roger Michell - 3 times - show films
Woody Allen - 3 times - show films
David Dobkin - 2 times - show films