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Rachel McAdams Celebrates Her 34th
Source: People
Category: Entertainment
Duration: 0:21

Rachel McAdams is too young to lie about her age—or is she?
The star of Wedding Crashers and The Notebook claims she was born in October 1978, making her 28. But imdb.com puts her birthday in 1976—and those who’ve looked into the matter believe the earlier date may be accurate.
In a November 2005 profile, Details listed McAdams’s age as 29, prompting her then-publicist, Ame Van Iden, to complain vigorously. (McAdams later fired Van Iden, reportedly because the flack booked her to appear nude on Vanity Fair’s cover without her consent.) A Details source says the magazine agreed to run a correction only after Van Iden assured them that IMDb had been notified of its error.
As of yesterday, however, the site was still listing her as 30. When Elle wrote McAdams up for its April cover, it got around the problem by saying, “IMDb states [she] is 30, but [she] is really, truly, ask her mother, 28.”
What’s the truth? “Her birthday is inaccurately reported,” says her rep. “She is 28 years old.” But a source involved with one of her recent films says it’s “no secret among the producers” that she shaves a couple years off her age in interviews—only to add them back on when she’s up for a part that calls for a more “mature” actress.
Wikipedia, for the record, lists her age as 28, but notes that “her exact year of birth is unknown. Some websites list it as 1976 and some websites list it as 1978. This means that she could be between the ages of 28 and 30.”

Rachel McAdams’s career confuses me. With one exception (last year’s $37 million-grossing State of Play, which was technically a Russell Crowe-Ben Affleck disaster), every wide-release movie she has appeared in since 2004’s Mean Girlshas done well at the North American box office. The Notebook: $81 million. Wedding Crashers: $209 million. Red Eye: $58 million.The Family Stone: $60 million. The Time Traveler’s Wife: $63 million. Sherlock Holmes: $209 million.

(Interesting aside: Lindsay Lohan’s Mean Girls costars, McAdams, Tina Fey and Amanda Seyfried, have all gone on to much bigger and better things than the film’s star.)

The success of exactly half of those films had little to do with her, and The Notebook was a triumph of word of mouth and a strong ensemble cast led by Ryan Gosling, another young actor with an interesting career (a subject for another post). But what would have become of Red Eye and The Time Traveler’s Wife without McAdams? The success of both certainly wasn’t based on the drawing power of her male costars, Cillian Murphy and Eric Bana, respectively.

Still, for all of her commercial success, McAdams is stuck on Hollywood’s B+ list. She’s no Sandra Bullock, no Jennifer Aniston, no Anne Hathaway. She’s beautiful, talented and likable, but there is something a bit generic about her. And unlike, say, Amy Adams, Oscar and Golden Globe nominations haven’t increased her red-carpet visibility. If you were dining in a restaurant, and McAdams walked in, would every head in the room turn in her direction to get a closer look?

She’s in love! I think they are great together.