YouTube.com\/@HwdWalkofFame<\/a>.<\/p>\nBorn Nov. 17, 1978, in London, Ontario and raised about 17 miles south in St. Thomas, Ontario, where she was involved with theater while growing up, McAdams received a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine arts from York University in Toronto in 2001.<\/p>\n
McAdams made her television debut in the unaired MTV pilot \u201cShotgun Love Dolls,\u201d filmed during her spring break from college in 2001. She made her film debut later that year in the Italian-Canadian comedy, \u201cMy Name Is Tanino,\u201d as an American girl vacationing in Italy who an Italian liberal arts student (Corrado Fortuna) falls in love with.<\/p>\n
Her Hollywood film debut came in the 2002 comedy \u201cThe Hot Chick\u201d as a catty high school student who swaps bodies with a small-time criminal (Rob Schneider).<\/p>\n
McAdams rose to fame in 2004 with her portrayals of \u201cqueen bee\u201d Regina George in the comedy \u201cMean Girls\u201d and 17-year-old heiress Allie Hamilton in the romantic drama \u201cThe Notebook.\u201d<\/p>\n
The following year McAdams appeared in the comedy \u201cWedding Crashers\u201d<\/p>\n
McAdams received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination in 2016 for her portrayal of investigative journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in \u201cSpotlight,\u201d losing out to Alicia Vikander for her performance as Danish painter Gerda Wegener in \u201cThe Danish Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAdams\u2019 other film credits include \u201cMidnight in Paris\u201d; \u201cSherlock Holmes\u201d and \u201cSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows\u201d; \u201cThe Little Prince\u201d; \u201cMorning Glory\u201d; \u201cThe Time Traveler\u2019s Wife\u201d; and \u201cThe Family Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAdams\u2019 television credits include the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama \u201cTrue Detective.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAdams received a best actress in a play Tony Award nomination in 2024 for her Broadway debut, playing the title role in \u201cMary Jane,\u201d a woman caring for her chronically ill young son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is set to be unveiled Tuesday honoring Rachel McAdams for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,17746,131423,2961,224,5337,235195,112564,581,44225,79783],"class_list":["post-530416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-fame","tag-honoring","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-mcadams","tag-rachel","tag-star","tag-unveiled","tag-walk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115928869425706607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}