Category: 2006

Variety: The Faces

Variety Published: July 27, 2006 RACHEL MCADAMS Actress It takes a special quality for an actress to be believable as the queen bee who rules the school, as the girl worth waiting for, and as the woman who can inspire a boy to grow into a man, but McAdams has excelled in satire (“Mean Girls”), …

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Wall Street Journal: Playing Harder to Get

Wall Street Journal Published: August 18, 2006 Hollywood”s New Challenge: Getting Rachel McAdams To Say “I Do” to a Role Minutes after auditioning Rachel McAdams for “Wedding Crashers,” director David Dobkin told the studio executive who had recommended her that she had to be hired. “She plays like a Stradivarius, man,” said Mr. Dobkin, who …

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Vanity Fair: Rachel McAdams

Vanity Fair Published: December, 2006 August 2005 Breakthrough film: The Notebook Career Highlight: Mean Girls; Wedding Crashers; The Family Stone. What she said then: “In Canada I was up in the nosebleeds of the entertainment business, so I’m really just learning the ins and outs of the business – you kind of find yourself plunked …

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YorkU: The rise of Rachel

YorkU Published: February, 2006 Editor’s Note We’re delighted to have Rachel McAdams on the cover just as her old friends in York’s Theatre Department, along with the rest of the Faculty of Fine Arts, gear up for a great leap forward. This spring, York will celebrate the official opening of the two-building Accolade Project on …

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Teen People: Top 10 Most Beautiful Movie Stars – Best Skin

Teen People Published: March, 2006 “Until about a year ago, I didn’t even wash my face at night,” Rachel has said. Hail to Hollywood’s ultimate girl next door! “She’s so wholesome, but she’s also got some fun, truly girlish streaks,” Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin has said of Rachel, 27. A former competitive ice skater …

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Vanity Fair: Rachel McAdams

Vanity Fair Published: November 1, 2006 “Food is my guilty pleasure,” says Rachel McAdams, with the emphasis clearly on the pleasure, not the guilt. “But I agreed tot do the hors d’oevres for a friend’s event and I’m hitting a bit of a time crunch. I was up to my eyeballs in prosciutto wraps and …

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