Rachel McAdams was honoured this week in a light-hearted ceremony that featured friends and family

She now is star No. 2,833 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She is our Rachel McAdams, who was so honoured Tuesday in Los Angeles.

It was a lighthearted ceremony during which friends and colleagues good-naturedly ribbed the St. Thomas actor as they praised her.

Praising his former About Time co-star – and now a close pal – actor Domhall Gleeson may have surprised his audience when he questioned whether Rachel truly deserved her star.

“Life, and more importantly, Hollywood, has taught me that you are not supposed to have it all,” he said.

“It is not fair to be everyone’s favorite person on set and the best actor in the room.

“It is selfish of you to be a devoted mother of two, putting family above all else, and a huge movie star continually knocking it out of the park, commercially and artistically.

“It’s not okay to be a Hollywood star and a character actor, to be gifted at comedy and drama, to be unrestricted by genre or expectations, and to be the loveliest person I’ve ever met in my life.

“That’s not how we do things. So, yes, I don’t think you deserve it.”

Rachel also was praised by director Sam Raimi, who helmed her forthcoming motion picture, Send Help, a psychological thriller due out Jan. 30.

He joked that when Rachel arrived in California, Hollywood walked all over her.

“But after 25 years of superb performances, she has risen to great heights. And now, thanks to that star, people will once again walk all over her.”

Kidding aside, he continued.

“Congratulations, Rachel. You are so kind and considerate. You are a brilliant collaborator, and a good friend, and a real movie star, someone to light up this Hollywood Walk of Fame, and you are really deserving of this honor. And we all love you.”

In addition to star No. 2,833, Rachel also received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles. And the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce which oversees the Walk of Fame as a tourist promotion, proclaimed Tuesday as Rachel McAdams Day in Hollywood.

But the bright lights of the day didn’t blind the honoree.

In her remarks, she recalled growing up in “tiny little St. Thomas, Canada” and the........

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