Rachel McAdams Biography

Fast Facts

• Began competing in figure skating at age 4 and continued with the sport until she was 18
• Performed Shakespeare at the Original Kids Theatre in her home town at the age of 12
• First TV performance was as a girl with bulimia in a 2001 episode of The Famous Jett Jackson
• Prepared for her role of Southern belle Allie Hamilton in The Notebook (2004) by taking etiquette lessons
• Won a 2005 MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female for her role in Mean Girls and also shared one with Notebook costar Ryan Gosling for Best Kiss
• Arrived at a photo shoot for the March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair magazine only to bow out at the last minute because she reportedly had a change of heart about posing nude
• Voiced a polar bear in a 2015 video by Greenpeace, highlighting the dangers of Arctic oil drilling