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Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the comedy series Slings & Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award.

In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and the comedy-drama The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood's new "it girl" and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Rising Star.

After a hiatus, McAdams gained further prominence starring in the films The Time Traveller's Wife (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). For her portrayal of journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight (2015), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016) and its sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), the comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), and the comedy-drama Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).

On television, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective (2015), earning a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane (2024), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

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2026 Send Help as Linda

2025 BARRE VALE ♡ Actor's Assistant

2023 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Barbara Simon

2023 Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self

2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Self - Dr. Christine Palmer

2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Dr. Christine Palmer

2020 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga as Sigrit Ericksdottir

2018 Disobedience as Esti Kuperman

2018 Game Night as Annie

2016 Doctor Strange as Dr. Christine Palmer

2016 Sonic Sea as Narrator (voice)

2015 Spotlight as Sacha Pfeiffer

2015 The Little Prince as The Mother (voice)

2015 Aloha as Tracy Woodside

2015 Every Thing Will Be Fine as Sara

2015 Southpaw as Maureen Hope

2015 The Making of A Most Wanted Man as Self

2014 A Most Wanted Man as Annabel Richter

2013 About Time as Mary

2013 To the Wonder as Jane

2013 Passion as Christine Stanford

2012 The Vow as Paige Collins

2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Irene Adler

2011 Midnight in Paris as Inez

2010 Morning Glory as Becky Fuller

2010 Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented as Self

2009 Sherlock Holmes as Irene Adler

2009 The Time Traveler's Wife as Clare Abshire

2009 State of Play as Della Frye

2008 The Lucky Ones as Colee Dunn

2008 Married Life as Kay Nesbitt

2006 The Making of 'Red Eye' as Self

2005 The Family Stone as Amy Stone

2005 Red Eye as Lisa Reisert

2005 Wedding Crashers as Claire Cleary

2004 The Notebook as Allie Hamilton

2004 Mean Girls as Regina George

2002 The Hot Chick as Jessica

2002 Perfect Pie as Patsy Grady (age 15)

2002 My Name Is Tanino as Sally Garfield

2002 Guilt by Association as Danielle Mason

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