Who is Rachel McAdams

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Rachel McAdams: Lovely Actress From Canada

Rachel McAdams will be seen reprising her role of Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Secrets released December 2011 (see trailer below) which again stars Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr Watson. The original was also released in December back in 2009 and was quite a big hit. You will find more info about this and other movies that featured McAdams below.

Earlier in 2011 she was also seem opposite her former Wedding Crashers co-star Owen Wilson in the film Midnight In Paris (directed by Woody Allen) which was released in mid-June 2011. Prior to that McAdams was most recently seen in Morning Glory (trailer below) which opened in November 2010 and in that one, her character, Becky Fuller is a hotshot television producer trying to revive a struggling morning show, and contending with feuding anchors. Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Jeff Goldblum were also cast. McAdams also is slated to star in a untitled Terrance Malick movie (now in post-production) with Christian Bale, Javier Bardem and Olga Kurylenko and that has been re-scheduled for a release in 2012.

McAdams' previous movie was of course, Sherlock Holmes (see trailer below!) where she appeared as Irene Adler, a femme fatale, opposite Robert Downey Jr. as the illustrious detective which opened Christmas Day, 2009. And rumors of a sequel have been confirmed of a new untitled Sherlock Holmes second movie which is in pre-production for 2011. Unfortunately they will not have McAdams as the female lead, but she will be reprising her role as Adler.

Rachel has finished filming Midnight In Paris (Woody Allen directing) and begun The Vow with Channing Tatum. the story is that McAdams and Tatum are a newlywed couple involved in a serious car acident leaving the wife (McAdams) with a loss of memory and Tatum tries to recover the love they shared prior to the accident. Directed by Michael Sucsy (who did the excellent Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange). Midnight In Paris also stars Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody and her Wedding Crashers co-star, Owen Wilson.

McAdams was seen in two other movies in 2009, State of Play where she played Della Frye, a young reporter working with Russell Crowe's character to figure out the connection between two murders and a congressman (Ben Affleck). Rachel also had a major role in The Time Traveler's Wife with Eric Bana.

McAdams' movie Morning Glory (trailer below) opened in November 2010 and in that one, her character, Becky Fuller is a hotshot television producer trying to revive a struggling morning show show, and contending with feuding anchors. Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Jeff Goldblum were also cast. McAdams also is slated to star in a untitled Terrance Malick movie with Christian Bale, Javier Bardem and Olga Kurylenko and that has been re-scheduled for a release in 2012.

Rachel McAdams' Early Acting Career

Rachel made her professional acting debut in the Disney series The Famous Jett Jackson and in 2002 she appeared in three movies: making her feature debut in the Italian film My Name Is Tanino, McAdams then starred as Patsy in the Canadian film Perfect Pie; earning a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was then cast in The Hot Chick alongside Rob Schneider as, surprise, the hot chick. The next year, she starred in the Canadian television series, Slings and Arrows.

In 2004 Rachel McAdams appeared in two major movies: Cast as Regina George, the 'queen-bee' in the Tina Fey scripted, Mean Girls and then co-starred with Ryan Gosling in Nick Cassavetes' film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook.

2005 brought fans three more movies as she was cast as the youngest member of the Stone family in The Family Stone, co-starred with Cillian Murphy in the suspense thriller, Red Eye and then played Owen Wilson's love interest in the smash hit comedy The Wedding Crashers.

In 2008, Rachel starred in the acclaimed 1950's drama Married Life with Pierce Brosnan and Patricia Clarkson and co-starred as an Iraq War veteran in Neil Burger's The Lucky Ones opposite Tim Robbins and Michael Pena.



Gorgeous Actress Rachel McAdams

Reasons to love Rachel McAdams

1. Well, just look at those eyes!
2. She's funny. She was great in The Wedding Crashers.
3. She's a good actress. She can play dramatic parts too. Red Eye and The Notebook showed that.

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Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows Trailer 2011

The sequel to the 2009 hit starring Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as his assistant Doctor Watson has a smaller role for Rachel McAdams again playing Irene Adler but in this film Holmes and Watson team up with a fortune teller named Madam Simza Heron (played by Noomi Rapace) in an effort to capture the elusive Professor Moriarity (Jared Harris). The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and released in December 2011 with the promise of a third Holmes movie starring Downey Jr if this one is well receceived.

The first video is the trailer to Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Secrets while the second is footage of McAdams taking time to meet fans prior to the California premiere of the film.
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Midnight in Paris Trailer

'Midnight in Paris' Official Trailer
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Rachel McAdams Auditions For The Notebook

This is almost painful to watch. Rachel McAdams doing one of the more dramatic and emotional scenes from The Notebook with her co-star Ryan Gosling. Needless to say, she got the part.

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Rachel McAdams In Morning Glory

Released November 12th, 2010

Morning Glory is a comedy film directed by Roger Michell and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. It stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum. An aspiring news producer (McAdams) tries to save a failing morning show by getting control of its feuding, but wise anchors (Ford and Keaton). The film includes cameo appearances by hip hop trio G-Unit and journalist Miles O'Brien, of CNN
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The Premiere Of Sherlock Holmes In London, England

Interviews at the London premiere of the movie Sherlock Holmes with Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, Kelly Reilly who discuss the film, their characters and working with director Guy Ritchie who discusses the film in the 3rd clip.

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Rachel McAdams At The Sherlock Holmes Premiere

Rachel McAdams at the premiere of Sherlock Holmes in London. McAdams starred alongside Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law in the 2009 movie about the famous detective from the novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes Featuring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, And Rachel McAdams!


Sherlock Holmes


Here's the latest trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie which came out Christmas Day. Robert Downey Jr., plays the lead of Sherlock Holmes opposite Jude Law as Doctor Watson. Lovely Rachel McAdams plays Holmes' love interest, Irene Adler (reputedly the only woman to have outsmarted Holmes). The film's villian is the fiendish Lord Blackwood (played by Mark Strong). The clip shows a bit of a more muscular Holmes (Downey?) fighting it out in a bare knuckle brawling match, juxaposed with a steamy Rachel McAdams in a state of victorian undress.

In one notable scene, Holmes finds himself handcuffed to a bed by Adler with only a pillow to hide his modesty. It looks like the movie will have a lot more action than your standard Holmes movie, as it is directed by Guy Ritchie. All I can say is - More McAdams!
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The Time Traveler's Wife


The Time Traveler's Wife


Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana star in The Time Traveler's Wife, which opens in August 2009. Bana is a Chicago librarian who suffers from a genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time, while McAdams character, Clare Abshire copes with his frequent absences. The movie is based on the 1st novel (of the same name) by author Audrey Niffenegger which has sold 2.5 million copies.
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One Of The Best Scenes From The Time Traveller's Wife

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McAdams In State Of Play


State of Play
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Two seemingly unrelated deaths? First, a thief gets gunned down in an alley, second, a Congressman's assistant falls in front of a subway. What's the connection?

Newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) believes there is a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. McAffrey has some connections with the Congressman (Ben Affleck) and the help of an ambitious young rookie writer Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), he starts unravelling clues that lead him to a bigger story, involving corporate cover-up full of insiders, informants, and assassins. Helen Mirren also appears as McAffrey's steely editor.

The movie is based on the excellent British mini-series, State of Play (BBC Miniseries) available from Amazon.com.
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Rachel McAdams' State Of Play Interview

This is an interview Rachel McAdams gave about her movie, State of Play, which also stars Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren.
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Red Carpet Premiere For State Of Play

Here's the Red Carpet Premiere for State Of Play. Interviews with Russell Crowe and Rachel McAdams, clips from the movie, autographs being signed... the whole smear.
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Rachel McAdams Named Female Star Of The Year

ShoWest has named Rachel McAdams as 2009's Female Star Of The Year. "They're really good at coming up with these big sweeping award titles, aren't they?" McAdams says in a recent interview with Variety. McAdams starred in two very different roles this year. In State Of Play, McAdams plays a young, inexperienced reporter, while in the new Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes, she plays a sexy Irene Adler, whom the famed Baker Street detective kept a picture of, as she was the only woman that ever outwitted him. Quite a range that showcases McAdams' acting chops.

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Rachel McAdams Videos

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Rachel McAdams Pictures

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Rachel McAdams Upcoming Projects

Right now McAdams is hard at work on several movies: Midnight In Paris, The Vow, and the The "Untitled" Terrance Malick Movie.are all done with filming and are in post-production - meaning they are being cut and spliced and edited before being released. Midnight In Paris is scheduled for 2011, but the other two films will not be ready until 2012 so you will have to wait a while for more Rachel.

The as yet untitled 2nd Sherlock Holmes is being filmed now and although McAdams will not be sharing quite as much screen time with Downey Jr as Irene Adler, she will be in it. The main female role in this sequel went to Noomi Rapace. I'm betting that if it is released in 2011, it will be around Christmas time like the first Holmes movie, but 2012 is more likely.

Rachel McAdams Is Something Of A Cameleon

Straight blond hair this week, then curly brunette the next. Rachel McAdams seems able to effortlessly pull off either look with ease.

Red Eye

Stars Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy

Rachel McAdams stars as Lisa, an airline employee who becomes trapped on a flight with a creepy villain (Cillian Murphy, who is even more menacing than he was in Batman Begins as The Scarecrow). The movie is ably directed by Wes Craven, a veteran horror director who turns it into an above-average potboiler that packs a lot of tension into its 85 minute running time. That's a perfect amount of time for a movie like this, in which our beautiful heroine Lisa (Rachel McAdams) finds herself trapped on a red-eye flight with nasty Jackson Rippner (Murphy). Murphy coerces Lisa into helping in a plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official because he's got Lisa's father being held captive by a would-be killer, using that advantage to make Lisa into contacting the luxury hotel she works at and arranging to have the assassination target moved into a pre-set position.

It looks like there can be no escape for Lisa, but of course Craven and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth find a way to milk the suspenseful dilemma for all it's worth, even managing to wedge in a few intriguing character details to enhance the fast-moving plot. It's still a B-movie, but it's tightly constructed and well-executed by Craven, whose previous films made him a perfect choice to maximize all that Red-Eye has to offer.


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The Notebook

Yes, this movie is syrupy sweet and clogged with cliches, Still, this movie is touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, not the least being young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams who fell in love in real life while making this tear jeaker) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother). McAdams and Gosling play the young love birds in the early 1940s and Garner and Rowling play the same couple in present-day North Carolina.

In the 40s, he was poor, and she was rich, and you can guess the rest; the years have past and he's remains unabashedly devoted, and she's slipping into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. Some people hate it because it demands your tears and on that level it is fine. Sometimes you just need a gooy romantic movie.


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The Lucky Ones

An earnest if not wholly satisfying comedy-drama about an awkward homecoming for three dissimilar Iraq War veterans, The Lucky Ones works best as a vehicle for its interesting lead performances. Tim Robbins transcends his real-life, anti-war reputation by playing Cheever, a Reservist and decent fellow who is injured in Iraq when a porta-potty falls on him. Eager to see his family, he ends up on a road trip with two other soldiers trying to reach their own destinations. There's Colee (Rachel McAdams), a young and earnest woman who enlisted to escape family problems, endured a leg wound and is on her way to meet the family of her boyfriend, who was killed in combat. There's also T.K. (Michael Pena), recruited from a poor family and granted a month's leave after becoming impotent from a wound. The odyssey these characters, initially strangers to each other, share is fairly predictable for anyone who has seen such classic vets-coming-home movies as The Best Years of Our Lives. As Colee, T.K. and Cheever travel together, they encounter what sometimes feels and looks like an alien landscape: people who patronize them, people who despise the war without an inkling of what it's like to endure it, and a host of other exploitative chuckleheads who just don't get it. Inevitably, the trio has only itself to rely upon, to share the knowledge of the war's reality and provide support in ways that are sometimes funny and sometimes poignant. Co-written and directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), The Lucky Ones has a rambling structure that causes the film to lose focus. But its heart is in the right place, and Robbins, McAdams and Pena play people one can care about as much as enjoy.


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The Married Life

Far too many period productions look right, but feel wrong. Set in 1949, Married Life doesn't just bring the post-war era to vivid life with cigarettes and cocktails aplenty; it even plays like a product of the time. In that respect, it calls to mind AMC's Mad Men, except Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue) takes a lighter tone towards domestic disharmony. In this well-scrubbed suburban world, middle-class wives, like Pat (Patricia Clarkson), build their lives around their husbands. Pat and Harry (Chris Cooper) seem happy, but Harry confesses to his pal, Richard (narrator Pierce Brosnan), that the spark is gone. He plans to leave Pat for vibrant young war widow Kay (Rachel McAdams). Once Richard, a notorious ladies man, gets a gander at the platinum blonde, he secretly sets out to win her affections, while Harry plots to take Pat out of the picture. Married Life almost simulates one of Alfred Hitchcock's pessimistic disquisitions on matrimony, yet Harry and Richard seek less hurtful means to achieve their goals. Though women's lib has yet to hit the suburbs, Pat and Kay harbor desires of their own, and the best-laid plans soon go awry. Though Kay could use further development, this ensemble hums along almost as harmoniously as the quartet in Starting Out in the Evening. Along with co-writer Oren Moverman (I'm Not There), Sachs transforms John Bingham's 1953 novel, Five Roundabouts to Heaven, into an insightful treatise on love, marriage, and fidelity.


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The Family Stone

For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha's slapstick premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancee Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It's an instant disaster when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf son Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), pot-smoking son Ben (Luke Wilson) and daughters Amy (Rachel McAdams) and Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Meredith recruits her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to help her thaw the Stone family cold front, and after building a solid emotional foundation for his holiday comedy, Bezucha starts to stack the deck with plot developments that, while heartwarming, border on the absurd. You either go with the movie's flow or you don't, and with this appealing cast (featuring some really nice work by Keaton, Nelson, Parker and Danes) it's easy to forgive Bezucha's unlikely blend of yuletide cheer, petty animosities, and romantic tables turned in the blink of an eye. Toss in a case of terminal illness and you've got a sad-happy tearjerker that works in spite of itself. If you don't recognize at least part of your own holiday clan in The Family Stone, you probably haven't been paying attention.


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The Wedding Crashers

With Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of brazen wedding crashers, this buddy/romantic comedy milks a few big laughs from its foolproof premise. Under the direction of David Dobkin (who previously worked with Wilson on Shanghai Knights), the movie ranges from bawdy romp to mushy romance, and that tonal identity crisis curtails the overall hilarity. But when the well-teamed costars are firing on all pistons with fast-paced dialogue and manic situations, belly laughs are delivered at a steady clip. Things get complicated when the guys infiltrate the family of the Treasury Secretary (Christopher Walken), resulting in a romantic pair-off between Vaughn and the congressman's oversexed daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher) while Wilson sincerely woos another daughter, Claire (Rachel McAdams), who's unhappily engaged to an Ivy League cheater (Bradley Cooper). Walken is more or less wasted in his role, but Jane Seymour and Henry Gibson make amusing appearances, and a surprise guest arrives late in the game for some over-the-top scene-stealing. It's all a bit uneven, but McAdams (considered by some to be "the next Julia Roberts") is a pure delight, and with enough laughs to make it easily recommended.


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Green Is Sexy

Green Is Sexy is Rachel McAdams' blog which she does with a couple of friends (Meagan Kuhlmann and DiDi Bethurum). The blog is full of tips on how to live life to the greenest.

Here's a good article where Rachel discusses the blog and green concerns - Rachel McAdams brings star power to being green & sexy.

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Rachel McAdams Takes Some Time To Sign Autographs

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McAdams As Irene Adler In Sherlock Holmes

News About Rachel McAdams

Here are some headlines about McAdams. As more interviews and videos are made available you will be able to find information about Rachel McDams here.
Noomi Rapace As Femme Fatale In Sherlock Holmes 2: Rachel McAdams Will Still Appear In Film
Although Rachel McAdams' part as Irene Adler will be downplayed in the sequel to the first Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr, she will still be in the film. Actress Noomi Rapace will have the female lead opposite Downey Jr.

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