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Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an
United States|American actor|actress. She was born
in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California|Eagle Rock,
a community next to Los Angeles, California|Los
Angeles, California, as the eldest of three
sisters. Her father was United Kingdom|British and
her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica when she
was a young woman. Her father suffered from
multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of
sadness over her childhood. 

When she was 10, Stowe began taking piano lessons
with the aim to become a concert pianist, but she
gave up when her instructor died some years later.
She then studied cinema and journalism at Southern
California University. Not too interested in her
classes, Stowe volunteered doing performances at
the Solaris, a Beverly Hills theater, where a
movie agent saw her in a play, and got her offers
for several appearances in TV films and cinema
movies. 

Stowe performed during nearly fifteen years mostly
in minor roles as supporting actress in TV films
and cinema movies. A few of her interpretations of
this period became however well-known to the
public, as it was the case of Stakeout, in 1987,
opposite Richard Dreyfuss, and Revenge, in 1990,
co-starring Kevin Costner. In 1992  Stowe finally
had her big chance when she was offered a leading
role in The Last of the Mohicans, together with
Daniel Day-Lewis.

Thereafter, several roles in major films followed.
Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a
part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her
best screen performances. She was a touching blind
musician in the thriller Blink (movie)|Blink,
co-starring Aidan Quinn, and a sympathetic
psychiatrist in the science-fiction movie Twelve
Monkeys. Stowe postponed her acting career in '96
in order to concentrate on motherhood. In 1998 she
came back and acted in The Proposition, her first
film after this interruption . 

Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom
she acted in a TV film in 1981. The couple has a
little daughter and spends all their spare time on
the ranch they own in Texas.

===Partial filmography===
*We Were Soldiers (2002)
*The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) (TV)
*Playing by Heart (1998)
*Twelve Monkeys (1995)
*Bad Girls (movie)|Bad Girls (1994)
*China Moon (1994)
*Blink (movie)|Blink (1994)
*Short Cuts (1993)
*Another Stakeout (1993) (uncredited)
*The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
*The Two Jakes (1990)
*Revenge (1990)
*Stakeout (1987)


==External link==
*http://www.madeleineonline.com/ Madeleine Stowe
Online