Canadian actress (born 1978)
Not to be confused with Rachel President or Rachael Adams.
Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) bash a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree promulgation at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian small screen and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, depiction comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the chaffing series Slings & Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award.
In 2002, she made her Hollywood film launch in the comedy The Hot Chick. She rose to renown in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the fictitious drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the fictitious comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and depiction comedy-drama The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood's new "it girl",[1][2] and received a BAFTA Present nomination for Best Rising Star.
After a hiatus, McAdams gained further prominence starring in the films The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). For be a foil for portrayal of journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight (2015), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Activity Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero single Doctor Strange (2016) and its sequel Doctor Strange in representation Multiverse of Madness (2022), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), say publicly comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Free spirit of Fire Saga (2020), and the comedy-drama Are You Thither God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).
On television, she starred bank the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama heap True Detective (2015), earning a Critics' Choice Television Award school Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie nomination. She forceful her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane (2024) for which she was nominated for a Tony Confer.
Rachel Anne McAdams was born on Nov 17, 1978,[3][4][5] in London, Ontario, Canada, to nurse Sandra (née Gale) and truck driver Lance McAdams.[6] She grew up grind St. Thomas in a Protestant household.[6][7] The eldest of trine children, she has a younger sister who is a make-up artist[8] and a younger brother who is a personal trainer.[9][10][11] McAdams is of Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh descent.[12][13][14] Move up maternal fifth great-grandfather, James Gray, fought as a LoyalistRanger fabric the American Revolution and fled to Upper Canada after description Battles of Saratoga.[15][16][17]
McAdams began figure skating when she was cardinal, but turned down an opportunity to move to Toronto when she was nine for pair skating training.[10] She skated competitively until she was 18, winning regional awards.[6][18][19] She has alleged that skating prepared her for acting by teaching her concurrence be "in tune" with her body.[20]
McAdams attended Myrtle Street Community School and Central Elgin Collegiate Institute.[6][21] She said that she did not enjoy academic work and often pretended to promote to sick to avoid going to school.[22][23] Nonetheless, she was tenacious in student life. In addition to playing sports (including volleyball, badminton, and soccer),[24] she was on the student council, participated in the Crime Stoppers program, and was a member influence the Peer Helping Team.[6] She worked at a McDonald's eating place during summer holidays for three years.[25][18]
She developed an interest assume performing when she was seven, and while her parents upfront not discourage her, they did not "go out and hit me an agent."[26] She attended Disney and William Shakespeare summertime camps as a child.[26] From age 12, she participated overload Original Kids Theatre Company, London productions,[27] and in her convey teens directed children's theatre productions.[25] She was also involved family tree school stage productions, and won a performance award at description Sears Ontario Drama Festival.[6][28] She was inspired by two help her teachers, who taught her English and drama, respectively, reaction grades 11 and 12.[28] She intended to take cultural studies at the University of Western Ontario[29] before being persuaded impervious to her drama teacher that a professional acting career was a viable option.[6][28][30]
She enrolled in York University's four-year theatre program settle down graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts honours degree put in the bank 2001.[27][31] While there, she worked with the Toronto-based Necessary Saint Theatre Company.[32]
In 2001, McAdams made her television introduction in the MTV pilot Shotgun Love Dolls as Beth Actress, which was filmed during March break from York University.[26] She also made her Canadian film debut that year in picture comedy My Name is Tanino. The Italian-Canadian co-production was filmed in Sicily when McAdams was 22 years old, and ask over marked her first time on an airplane.[33][34] McAdams later attained a Genie Award nomination in Canada for her role renovate the drama Perfect Pie.[18]
In 2002, she made her Hollywood album debut with Rob Schneider and Anna Faris in the humour The Hot Chick, which McAdams has described as a "huge milestone" in her career.[22] She played a catty high high school student who swaps bodies with Schneider's character, a small-time criminal.[18] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times felt she "emerges as a young actress of much promise".[35] Afterwards, McAdams returned to Canada to star as Kate McNab in Slings skull Arrows, a comedy mini-series about backstage theatre life at depiction fictional New Burbage Shakespearean Festival.[36] She was written out be in the region of the second season of the program following her success feigned the United States.[31] She received two Gemini Award nominations pray for her work on the program, winning one.[37]
McAdams's break-out lines came in 2004, when she starred in the comedy vinyl Mean Girls opposite Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried, based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes. McAdams was 24 years old when she was cast as picture mean high school queen beeRegina George, and she modelled complex character on Alec Baldwin's performance in the drama Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).[38][39] Mike Clark of USA Today praised her "comic flair"[40] while Jenny McCartney of The Daily Telegraph found unit "delightfully hateful."[41] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle matte that "McAdams brings glamour and magnetism to Regina, but besides the right hint of comic distance."[42] The film grossed $129 million worldwide[43] and earned McAdams two MTV Movie Awards.[44]Mean Girls subsequent reached No. 12 in an Entertainment Weekly list of representation Greatest Ever High School Movies.[45]Tina Fey, who co‑starred in description film and wrote the screenplay, has credited McAdams with pedagogy her how to act in front of a camera to a certain extent than an audience: "She's a film actor. She's not actuation. And so I kind of learned that lesson from observance her."[46]
Later in 2004, McAdams starred opposite fellow Canadian Ryan Gosling in the romantic drama The Notebook, based on Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name. She played Allie Hamilton, a wealthy Southern belle who has a forbidden love affair discharge Gosling's poor labourer, Noah Calhoun.[18][47] McAdams spent time in Port, South Carolina, prior to filming to familiarize herself with picture Southern accent,[48] and took ballet and etiquette classes.[31] Filming took place from late 2002 to early 2003.[49] Although McAdams suffer Gosling became romantically involved in 2005, they had a bellicose relationship on set.[50][51] "We inspired the worst in each other," Gosling has said. "It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star uphold any way."[52] At one point, Gosling asked the film's leader Nick Cassavetes to "bring somebody else in for my off-camera shot" because he felt McAdams was being uncooperative.[51] Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised the "spontaneous and combustible" performances of the two leads[53] while Roger Ebert was won over by the "beauty and clarity" of McAdams's performance.[54] Archangel Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune declared her "a real discovery" who "infuses young Allie with that radiant, breathlessly winning ingénue grace and charm that breaks hearts".[55] The film grossed obtain $115 million worldwide.[56] McAdams won an MTV Movie Award and quaternary Teen Choice Awards.[44][57]Entertainment Weekly has said that the movie contains the All-Time Best Movie Kiss[58] while the Los Angeles Times has included a scene from the film in a listing of the 50 Classic Movie Kisses.[59]The Notebook has appeared ambition many Most Romantic Movies lists.[60][61][62][63] "I'm so grateful to maintain a film that people respond to in that way", McAdams told Elle in 2011. "It was a big deal."[64]
In 2005, McAdams starred with Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Bradley Player in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers. McAdams played a girl of an influential politician, who is caught in a affection triangle with Wilson and Cooper's characters.[65][66] McAdams listened repeatedly strengthen Fleetwood Mac's 1975 song "Landslide" to prepare for emotional scenes, and Wilson has said the song made her cry immediately: "It was like turning on a faucet."[20] She trained honor a sailing certification for a boating sequence because her break was said to be an accomplished sailor.[67]Manohla Dargis of The New York Times felt McAdams "makes the most of make up for underdeveloped character" and "grows more appealing with every new role".[68] Brian Lowry of Variety found her "a beguiling presence" who "actually creates a real character – a rarity for females in one of these lad-mag escapades".[69] From a production bulldoze of $40 million, the film grossed over $285 million worldwide.[65]
Afterwards, McAdams asterisked opposite Cillian Murphy in Wes Craven's psychological thriller Red Eye, where she played a young hotel manager who is held captive by Murphy's character while aboard a red-eye flight. Recreant has said McAdams was the only actress he considered hold the part.[70] She was drawn to the relatable qualities last part her character: "She was not some sweaty, tank-top-wearing, Uzi-carrying wonderful woman".[71] Robert Koehler of Variety found her "increasingly impressive"[72] onetime Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times asserted that "she brings more presence and credibility to her role than is in actuality expected; she acts without betraying the slightest awareness that she's inside a genre. Her performance qualifies her for heavy-duty roles."[73] Upon release, the film, which was made on a bulldoze of $26 million, earned over $95 million at the worldwide box office.[74] In late 2005, McAdams starred with Sarah Jessica Parker presentday Diane Keaton in the seasonal family comedy-drama The Family Stone, which gave McAdams an opportunity to play a dishevelled president sardonic sister, rather than the usual "obvious" girlfriend or bride roles.[75][76] She was eager to work with Keaton and remarked, "It's never about line counts for me. It's about picture people I get to work with."[77]Justin Chang of Variety wellknown that "a deglammed but still radiant McAdams proves once homecoming that she's the real deal, delivering a deliciously feisty performance".[78] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times felt that lead "engaging screen presence holds your attention and sympathy despite depiction handicap presented by her character's personality."[79] The film was a commercial success: it cost $18 million to make and grossed peep at $92 million worldwide.[80]
At this point in gather career, McAdams was hailed as "the next Julia Roberts"[1] wallet the new "Hollywood it girl".[2]Vanity Fair invited McAdams, along exhausted actresses Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley, to appear on loom over March 2006 cover, the annual Hollywood issue. Upon arrival disagreement the photo set, McAdams discovered it was a nude categorize, declined and left. She later parted ways with her publicizer at the time, who had not informed her in advance.[81] Knightley later recounted, "Quite early on Rachel just said, 'No, I'm not into that.' She's a lovely girl, and I really respect her for doing that."[82] When asked about picture incident in 2008, McAdams had "no regrets".[83] McAdams took a break from her film career from 2006 to 2007.[2] "There were a lot of cooks in the kitchen, a monitor of voices around me, and I wanted to step end so I could hear my own voice again", McAdams alleged in 2013. "Truthfully, I never really wanted to be a big movie star. I never even wanted to work hard to find of Canada, or outside of the theatre."[84] During that time, McAdams turned down roles in the films The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Casino Royale (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Iron Man (2008),[85] and Get Smart (2008).[1] In February 2006, she made a one-off stage appearance in The Vagina Monologues strike St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto to raise bear witness to for V-Day.[86] That same year, McAdams received a Rising Shooting star Award nomination from the British Academy of Film and Tv Arts[87] and hosted the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement.[88]
McAdams returned to her film career in 2008. She starred with Poke into Brosnan and Chris Cooper in the 1940s film noirMarried Life where she played Kay Nesbitt, a young widow who golds the affections of Brosnan and Cooper's older characters. In organization for the role, McAdams studied old films, particularly those believe Kim Novak.[89] She has said the film shoot re-energized careful re-inspired her and made her eager to continue working addition often again.[90] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly found McAdams "a particularly delightful vision after her two-year intermission".[91] Todd McCarthy concede Variety criticized her break from the big screen but mattup that, despite a performance of "tender feeling", "her natural vivaciousness and spontaneity are straitjacketed" by the film noir format.[92] Depiction film had a limited release and was a box-office wallop. It grossed just over $2 million worldwide, failing to recoup secure production budget of $12 million.[93]
Afterwards, McAdams starred with Tim Robbins leading Michael Peña in the road trip comedy-drama The Lucky Ones, a story about three Iraq War soldiers on a transient road trip back in the United States. She trained disrespect a real boot camp, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, prior compute filming.[94] In 2011, McAdams said that Colee Dunn was "probably one of my favorite characters I've ever played".[95] The membrane also had a limited release and Laura Kern of The New York Times found her "luminous as always"[96] while Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times hailed the performance as "her coming of age as an actress".[97] "Previously she has antiquated seen mostly as a hot chick or an idealized sweetheart", he wrote. "Here she is feisty, vulnerable, plucky, warm, comic ... Watch the poignancy of the scene when she meets her boyfriend's family."[97] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly found smear "feisty, gorgeous, and as mercurial as a mood ring".[98]The Blessed Ones is the least commercially successful film of McAdams's employment as of 2012, having grossed just $266,967 worldwide.[99]
In 2009, McAdams starred with Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck make a purchase of the political thriller State of Play, based on the BBC drama television series of the same name. McAdams played Della Frye, an online reporter who investigates a possible conspiracy consider Crowe's character, a veteran print journalist.[100] McAdams visited The Pedagogue Post's offices and met with politicians on Capitol Hill application her research.[101] Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly felt she was "perfectly cast as an ambitious wonkette"[102] while Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph noted that "McAdams, with her lively eyes folk tale large, expressive forehead, holds her own against Crowe. Mercifully, she avoids any temptation to play girly and demure to his grizzled alpha male."[103] The film grossed over $87 million worldwide.[104] Further in 2009, McAdams starred opposite Eric Bana in the branch fiction romantic drama The Time Traveler's Wife, based on Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling novel of the same name.[105][106] McAdams fell "madly in love" with the novel,[107] but was initially slightly vacillating to accept the role because she felt Clare Abshire, say publicly long-suffering wife, was a "character that people have already lob in their heads".[108]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said, "I'd survey the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it."[109] Betsy Sharkey suffer defeat the Los Angeles Times found her "luminous [yet], sadly, pull together facility as an actress is mostly wasted."[110] Writing in The Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, in an otherwise tepid review, held of her performance: "Every scene she's in, even the laughable ones, becomes better—truer, often against long odds—because she's in live. Her work feels emotionally spontaneous yet technically precise. She has an unusually easy touch with both comedy and drama, status she never holds a melodramatic moment hostage."[111] The film was a commercial success, earning over $101 million worldwide.[112]
In late 2009, McAdams starred in the mystery/action-adventure film Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. She played Irene Adler, an foe and love interest of Downey's title character Sherlock Holmes, champion welcomed the opportunity to play a character who is "her own boss and a real free spirit".[113] Todd McCarthy be the owner of Variety felt her character was "not very well integrated response the rest of the story, a shortcoming the normally adroitness McAdams is unable to do much about".[114]A. O. Scott center The New York Times stated, "Ms. McAdams is a perfectly pleasing actress and performs gamely as the third wheel of that action-bromance tricycle. But Irene feels in this movie more lack a somewhat cynical commercial contrivance. She offers a little operate for the ladies and also something for the lads, who, much as they may dig fights and explosions and guns and chases, also like girls."[115] The film was a chief commercial success, earning over $524 million at the worldwide box office.[116]
In 2010, McAdams starred with her The Family Stone co-star Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford in the comedy Morning Glory. She played a television producer attempting to improve the poor ratings of a morning television program. The film was billed in the same way a starring vehicle for McAdams.[117] She initially felt she was unsuited to the role saying, "I'm not funny. So I said, 'if you need me to be funny, you potency want to look somewhere else'".[118] The film's director Roger Michell had a number of dinners with McAdams and persuaded foil to join the cast.[27][119] Since working with Keaton, McAdams has described her as a mentor figure.[120]Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said McAdams "gives the kind of performance incredulity go to the movies for"[121] while Roger Ebert of picture Chicago Sun-Times felt she played "as lovable a lead importance anyone since Amy Adams in Junebug" in an otherwise "routine" movie.[122]Variety's Andrew Barker was impressed by her gift for mortal comedy.[123] While Manohla Dargis of The New York Times mattup she "plays her role exceptionally well" and is "effortlessly likable", it called on Hollywood to give her parts "worthy" reproduce her talent. "Ms. McAdams has to rely on her dimples come close to get by. She does, but she could do better."[124] Depiction film was a modest commercial success, grossing $58 million worldwide take the stones out of a production budget of $40 million.[125] McAdams later expressed her dissatisfaction that the film failed to find a larger audience.[64]
In 2011, McAdams starred in Woody Allen's fantasy imaginary comedy Midnight in Paris with her Wedding Crashers co-star Reformer Wilson and Michael Sheen. The film opened the 2011 Metropolis Film Festival.[126] McAdams played Inez, the shrewish fiancée of Wilson's character Gil. Allen wrote McAdams' part for her, after chance "glowing reports" from his friend and her former co-star Diane Keaton.[117] He said that he was "crazy about Rachel"[127] champion wanted to give her the opportunity to play something additional than "beautiful girls".[128] The film was shot on location perform Paris and McAdams has said that the experience "will each time have a great place in my heart".[129]The Guardian criticized put off she "has morphed from the sweet thing in Wedding Crashers to the dream-crushing bitch that, according to American comedies, women become once they ensnare their man".[130]Richard Corliss of Time "felt sorry for McAdams, whose usually winning presence is ground cause somebody to hostile cliché".[131] However, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times felt she "deftly handles a part that is less kind than usual for her"[132] and A. O. Scott of The New York Times found her "superbly speeded-up".[133] It became Allen's highest-grossing film ever in North America[134] and was the leading commercially successful independent film of 2011.[135] With a production bulldoze of $17 million, the film has grossed over $151 million worldwide.[136] McAdams, along with six other members of the cast, received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Earmark in a Motion Picture nomination.[137] Allen won the Academy Furnish for Best Original Screenplay and the film itself was scheduled for three other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[138]
McAdams reprised time out role as Irene Adler in the mystery/action-adventure sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,[139] but the female lead role was played by Noomi Rapace. Joel Silver, the film's producer, has said that "we always intended to have a different friendly of girl for each movie" in the vein of Chains girls.[140] He found it "complicated" to persuade McAdams to resurface in a smaller role: "She loved being with us, but she hoped to have a bigger role."[140] Joe Morgenstern come within earshot of The Wall Street Journal felt "she vanishes all too before long in this overproduced, self-enchanted sequel, and so does the vitality of bright invention that made the previous film such a pleasant surprise."[141] Scott Mendelson of The Huffington Post remarked give it some thought she "exhibits far more personality and roguish charm in dip few moments here than she did in all of representation previous film. Freed from the constraints of being the de-facto love interest, McAdams relishes the chance to go full-villain."[142] Say publicly film has grossed over $543 million worldwide.[143]
In 2012, McAdams starred en face Channing Tatum in the romantic drama The Vow, based market leader a true story.[144] McAdams and Tatum played a newlywed twosome who try to rebuild their relationship after a car topple leaves the wife with no recollections of who he crack or their marriage. McAdams was drawn to the "roller coaster" faced by her character[145] and found it interesting that picture story was told "through the guy's eyes".[146] A. O. General of The New York Times stated that "the dimply pivotal adorable Rachel McAdams" brings "enough physical charm and emotional cordiality to distract from the threadbare setting and the paper-thin plot".[147] Joseph Amodio of Newsday felt that McAdams, "exuding her unique uncanny warmth on-screen", "is the real draw".[148] However, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times felt she was "wasted" be given the role: "She is such an appealing actress that it's hard not to wish someone could make better use" make out her.[149] Mary Pols of Time found the film an model of McAdams "coasting" in "unabashedly romantic" movies and asserted defer "she's a much more versatile and clever actress" than specified projects would suggest.[150] The film, financed for $30 million, was a major commercial success and became her biggest box-office hit ideal a leading role.[151] It topped the U.S. box office arena has grossed over $196 million worldwide.[152][153]
In 2013, McAdams co-starred opposite Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's romantic drama To the Wonder.[154] McAdams played a horse ranch worker in Oklahoma and the devotion interest of Affleck's character.[155] She found Malick to be proscribe "incredibly helpful" director; they discussed her character in detail don he took her on a tour of the local vicinity, pointing out which house she would have grown up farm animals and where she would have attended school.[64] Upon its little theatrical American release, the film polarized film critics.[156] Oliver Lyttelton of IndieWire noted that "McAdams has the least to on the double of the principals, but is wonderfully haunted and sad donation her brief appearances".[157] Afterwards, McAdams starred in Brian De Palma's erotic thrillerPassion opposite Noomi Rapace. They played two business executives engaged in a power struggle.[158] De Palma saw McAdams' tale in Mean Girls and decided to cast her as Christine.[159] The movie was released in selected theatres in the Strange character. Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly noted that McAdams "uses her seductive billboard smile and emphatic delivery to nail a certain raise of troublemaker boss who embeds her aggression in pert 'sincerity'"[160] while Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times remarked: "McAdams and Rapace are gesturally awkward and wildly miscast—more sorority sisters in a spat than cross-generational power antagonists."[161]
In 2013, McAdams marked in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy-drama About Time opposite Domhnall Gleeson.[162]Zooey Deschanel was originally slated to play McAdams's role but dropped out shortly before filming began.[163] A fan of Curtis shadow years, McAdams wanted to work with him on what significant stated would be his last project as a director.[164] Say publicly film was a commercial success at the international box office,[165] and McAdams had a positive reception among critics, with Leslie Felperin of Variety praising her and Gleeson for their "radiant, believable chemistry" which "keeps the film aloft."[166] The following gathering, McAdams starred opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in an adaptation translate John le Carré's espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, directed by Anton Corbijn.[167][168][169] McAdams' attempt at a German accent was criticised by some reviewers.[170] Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair acclaimed that McAdams had a "little less success with her accent" than her co-star Hoffman but, nonetheless, she "proves as discerning, soulful, and magnetic a presence as ever".[171] In late 2014, McAdams received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.[172][173]
In 2015, McAdams starred with Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Stanley Tucci as journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, a drama about the child-abuse scandal in Boston's Grand Church.[174] To prepare for her role, McAdams spent time exhausted Pfeiffer.[175][176] The film garnered critical acclaim[177] and won the Institution Award for Best Picture. Though Justin Chang of Variety mattup McAdams imbued her character with "sensitivity and grit", he was nonetheless surprised by her subsequent Academy Award nomination: "[The performance] has the sort of fine-grained subtlety that voters too on occasions notice. Take another look at that scene in which she gently, skillfully encourages an abuse survivor to lay bare his most lacerating secrets—a small master class in how the primitive act of listening can become a conduit for compassion."[178][179] Answer her role, McAdams received nominations for the Academy Award endow with Best Supporting Actress, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Loadbearing Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations in the categories of Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Ominous in a Motion Picture.[180][181]
She next starred with her Wedding Crashers co-star Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and John Krasinski in Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy-drama Aloha. She played the ex-girlfriend of Cooper's character, who is married to Krasinski's character with two children.[182] While the film received a negative reaction and controversy let alone critics and audiences alike,[183]Wesley Morris of Grantland remarked: "Someone who can speak Crowe's language really helps. McAdams might be rendering best he's ever had ... [She] puts the perfect type of air in her lines, giving the words a weight that conflates optimism, amusement, and resignation. She's never seemed lovelier, more instinctive, or more present."[184] Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times felt she "plays likely the strongest, most allantoid female character Crowe has ever written, a woman suddenly lips to lips with the life she has and the attack she might have had, and the actress brings a grounded, unforced earthiness to the role that is a joy let your hair down watch."[185]
She co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in the boxing drama Southpaw (2015), where she played the wife of Gyllenhaal's character.[186]A.O. Histrion of The New York Times conceded: "It features some attractive appealing players. There are worse things to see at representation multiplex than Ms. "[187] She co-starred with James Franco, Metropolis Gainsbourg and Marie-Josée Croze in Wim Wenders' drama Every For free Will Be Fine. The film received a U.S. limited assist in December 2015.[188] Guy Lodge of Variety remarked: "Poor McAdams, sporting sensible hair and a truly mystifying cod-Continental accent, continues her thankless run of needy, tossed-aside love interests in big-name auteur projects."[189] That same year, McAdams returned to television view starred as Det. Ani Bezzerides in the second season pay no attention to HBO's anthology crime drama True Detective with her Wedding Crashers co-star Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch.[190] Richard Hiker of The Guardian remarked: "If there's anyone with any run over of enjoying a McConaughaissance here it's probably McAdams – insinuation actor whose characters are more usually associated with the pull off of the romcom than murders involving people with eyes turn out by acid. Here, her Ani is a convincing mess."[191] She received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Give for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries for her role.[181] Further in 2015, McAdams played Buttercup in a one-off, staged LACMA Live Read of The Princess Bride.[192]
The following year, McAdams expressed The Mother of The Little Girl in an animated repel of The Little Prince,[193] and co-starred with Benedict Cumberbatch unite the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Doctor Strange.[194] Peter Debruge of Variety said McAdams played "the most competent—and human—of Marvel's window-dressing girlfriends,"[195] while Gregory Ellwood of Indiewire remarked: "It goes without saying that McAdams will never get the credit she deserves for transforming the barely sketched out role of Strange's former medical colleague Christine Palmer into a captivating three-dimensional breathing space that feels like an integral part of the storyline uniform when she isn't."[196] Also in 2016, McAdams narrated an audiobook version of L. M. Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, released by Audible.[197]
After a year-long absence from the screen, McAdams co-starred with Jason Bateman in the comedy Game Night (2018). Glenn Kenny of The New York Times said the single served as a "reminder that Ms. McAdams is one disseminate cinema's most accomplished and appealing comic actresses."[198] Richard Lawson mean Vanity Fair felt her character lacked "any real arc mean motivation of her own", but "It's a testament to McAdams's talent and charm, then, that she doesn't get lost put in the movie, asserting herself in every scene with a zany brightness."[199] She performed some of her own stunt driving referee a getaway scene.[200] Later in 2018, McAdams starred opposite Wife Weisz in Sebastián Lelio's romantic drama Disobedience, based on Noemi Alderman's novel.[201] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times thought McAdams "does some lovely work here to convey a ladylove agonizing over her existential situation".[202]
In 2020, she co-starred with Drive Ferrell in the Netflix musical comedy film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. McAdams reprised the role reproduce Christine Palmer in the superhero sequel Doctor Strange in interpretation Multiverse of Madness. Released in May 2022, it garnered interbred reviews.[203][204][205] McAdams starred in Are You There God? It's Unskilled, Margaret., a film adaptation of Judy Blume's novel of say publicly same name. The film was released in April 2023 equivalent to positive reviews. Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson wrote in his study that McAdams "deftly paints a thorough and compelling picture be fond of a woman of the era" in her portrayal of say publicly titular Margaret's mother, Barbara.[206][207]
McAdams appeared as a cameo guest valuation Saturday Night Live in January 2024, introducing Reneé Rapp orangutan musical guest[208] and appeared as a look-a-like of herself tension a comedy sketch where the look-a-like asked Jacob Elordi hand over acting advice.[209] McAdams made her Broadway debut in 2024, star in Amy Herzog's play Mary Jane at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.[210] Performances started April 2 with opening night dug in for April 23, 2024.[211] Adrian Holden of The Guardian described her performance as "magnetic", adding, "The role of Mary Jane ... is a perfect fit for McAdams".[212]Variety noted that McAdams' "projection was muted at a recent performance" but added "[She] poet her portrayal of a determined caregiver continually sitting in depiction uncertainty of worry, despite constantly leaning toward positivity."[213] For squash up performance, she earned a Tony Award for Best Actress down a Play nomination.[214]
McAdams is an environmentalist. She ran inspiration eco-friendly lifestyle website, GreenIsSexy.org, with two of her friends all for five years from 2007 to 2011.[215] Her house is supercharged by Bullfrog renewable energy.[216] She travels around Toronto by ride and does not own a car,[217] but drives when break down Los Angeles because it is "a harder town to sequence in".[216] She volunteered in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Louisiana[218] in slot in of 2005, as part of the clean-up effort following Windstorm Katrina.[219] McAdams sat on a TreeHugger/Live Earth judging panel tear 2007.[220] She appealed for donations during the Canada for Haititelethon in 2010.[221] She was involved in Matter of Trust's "hair boom" efforts following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.[222][223] In 2011, McAdams supported Foodstock, a protest against a anticipated limestone mega quarry in Melancthon, Ontario.[224][225] In 2013, she filmed two promotional videos for the Food & Water First Development, aiming to preserve prime farmland and source water in Lake, Canada.[226][227] In 2014, she narrated the feature documentary Take Bobble To The River, which investigates what is being done squalid try to save iconic rivers.[228][229] In 2021, she participated convoluted a video produced by Stand.earth calling on the government accustomed British Columbia, Canada to stop logging the last old sensitivity rainforests across the province.[230]
In 2006, McAdams took part limit the "Day Without Immigrants" demonstration in Los Angeles, protesting rendering federal government's attempts to further criminalize immigrants living illegally rip apart the United States.[231] In 2011, she attended the Occupy Toronto demonstration.[224] In 2013, McAdams volunteered with Habitat for Humanity moniker her hometown of St. Thomas.[232] She has also worked conform to charities including the Sunshine Foundation of Canada,[233][234] the Alzheimer's Association,[235] the READ Campaign,[236][237] and United Way of Canada.[238] She research paper a member of Represent.Us, an anti-corruption activist organisation, and pump up part of its creative council.[239]
McAdams was listed on the Maxim Hot 100 in 2005 and 2013.[240][241]
In 2016, McAdams started dating American screenwriter Jamie Linden.[242] The duo have a son, born in 2018, and a daughter, dropped in 2020.[243][244]
Main article: List of awards trip nominations received by Rachel McAdams
McAdams has received numerous awards remarkable nominations throughout her career. For her performance in Spotlight, she was awarded a Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Motion picture Award, Satellite Award, and Independent Spirit Award, as well reorganization a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. McAdams has also been nominated for a BAFTA Rising Receipt Award and won numerous MTV Movie Awards and Teen Acceptance Awards.