Rachel McAdams Rachel McAdams is a Canadian entertainer brought into the world on November 17, 1978, in London, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in St. Thomas in a Protestant household. McAdams learned at Myrtle Street Public School, and later at Central Elgin Collegiate Institute. McAdams originally built up an interest in performing when she was seven years of age. From the age of 12, McAdams took part in Original Kids Theater Company, London creations. In 2001, McAdams made her TV debut in the MTV pilot Shotgun Love Dolls as Beth Swanson, which was shot during spring break from York University. Rachel McAdams is maybe most popular as the main woman in such Hollywood sentiments as The Notebook (2004), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), and The Vow (2012). In the wake of graduating with a BFA from York University in 2001, she made a transient ascent to fame, going from a Gemini Award-winning job in the Canadian TV arrangement Slings and Arrows (2003) to her advancement Hollywood execution in the hit secondary school parody Mean Girls (2004). She was enlisted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2014 and got Screen Actors Guild and Oscar selections for her supporting exhibition in the Oscar-winning Spotlight (2015).