Andie MacDowell

At 66 years old, Andie MacDowell has this physical status:

Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and fashion model.

She made her film debut in Greystoke, Lord of the Apes, in 1984 before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

She has also been nominated for her appearances in Green Card (1990) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). MacDowell appeared in Groundhog Day (1993), Short Cuts (1993), Michael (1996), and Multiplicity (1996).

She appeared in a number of less well-known films, including The End of Violence (1997), The Muse (1999), and Town & Country (2001).

She went on to appear in a number of independent films and appeared in films including Beauty Shop (2005), Footloose (2011), and Magic Mike XXL (2015).

Love After Love, a 2017 drama film starring Emma MacDowell, has been lauded by critics.

She has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1986, marking 30 years with the firm in 2016.

Early life

MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, on April 21, 1958, to Pauline "Paula" Johnston, a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. Ancestry includes English, French, Scottish, Irish, Irish, and Welsh people. When she was six years old, her mother became an alcoholic and her parents separated when she was six. After being sober for a year, MacDowell's mother died of a heart attack at the age of 53. When MacDowell was eight, her father remarried, this time to former Mary Frances Stone; the union lasted until his death. MacDowell graduated from Gaffney High School in 1976 and went on to Winthrop University for two years before heading to Columbia, South Carolina, for a brief period. MacDowell signed a modeling contract with Elite Model Management in Los Angeles in 1978 after being spotted by a Wilhelmina Models representative while on a trip to Los Angeles.

Personal life

MacDowell married Paul Qualley, a rancher and fellow former model, in 1986. When posing for Gap ads, the two met. They had a son and two daughters, Rainey named Miss Golden Globe 2012, and Margaret, an actor.

In 1999, MacDowell and Qualley divorced. MacDowell began a year-long friendship with actor Dennis Quaid after her divorce from Qualley. MacDowell reconnected with her former high school classmate, Rhett Hartzog, a businessman who married on November 10, 2001, in 1999. In October 2004, the couple divorced. She has lived in Marina del Rey, California, since 2013.

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Career

In the early 1980s, MacDowell modeled for Vogue magazine and appeared in ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Vassarette, Armani perfume, Sabeth-Row, Mink International, Anne Klein, and Bill Blass. A series of billboards in Times Square and national television commercials for Calvin Klein won attention and led to her 1984 film debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. In this role, MacDowell's lines were dubbed by Glenn Close because her Southern accent was considered too pronounced for her role as Jane. In 1985, MacDowell filled a supporting role as a doctor in St. Elmo's Fire.

MacDowell studied method acting with teachers from the Actors Studio in addition to working privately with the renowned coaches Harold Guskin and Warren Robertson. Four years later, director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Her performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, among others award nominations, which led to a series of starring roles in films such as Green Card, The Object of Beauty, and Short Cuts. In the 1990s, MacDowell achieved stardom due to the box office success of director Harold Ramis's 1993 comedy, Groundhog Day, and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), opposite Hugh Grant.

Since 1986, MacDowell has appeared in print and television advertisements for cosmetic and haircare company L'Oréal. In 2000 she starred in Harrison's Flowers. In later years, she has acted primarily on television and in independent films. In 2012, she co-starred in the short-lived ABC Family series Jane by Design. From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the Hallmark Channel family series Cedar Cove. In 2018 MacDowell starred in and produced the Hallmark Hall of Fame film directed by Roger Spottiswoode based on the novel by Mary Alice Monroe, The Beach House. Also in 2018, she was cast in the horror comedy film Ready or Not, which was shot over 26 days. The film was released in 2019, and was a critical and commercial success. In 2019, she starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo. In an episode of NBC's Mr. Mayor that aired January 2021, MacDowell plays a fictionalized version of herself. In the same year MacDowell stars alongside her daughter, Margaret Qualley, in the Netflix show Maid.

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