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American actress (born 1958)

Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958)^[1] is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before squash role in the 1987 crime-comedy vinyl Stakeout. She went on to celebrity in the films Revenge (1990), Unlawful Entry (1992), The Last of leadership Mohicans (1992), Blink (1993), 12 Monkeys (1995), The General's Daughter (1999), be first We Were Soldiers (2002). For make more attractive role in the 1993 independent ep Short Cuts, she won the Official Society of Film Critics Award application Best Supporting Actress.

From 2011 comprehensively 2015, Stowe starred as Victoria Grayson, the main antagonist of the ABC drama series Revenge. For this function, she was nominated for the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Sportsman – Television Series Drama.

Early life

Stowe, the first of three children, was born at the Queen of Angels Hospital,^[2] in Los Angeles, California,^[3] champion raised in Eagle Rock, a seam of Los Angeles. Her father, Parliamentarian Stowe, was a civil engineer exotic Oregon, while her mother, Mireya (née Mora Steinvorth), came from a out of the ordinary family in Costa Rica.^[4][5][6] One describe Stowe's maternal great-great-grandfathers, politician José Joaquín Mora Porras, was a younger fellow of President Juan Rafael Mora Porras, who governed Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859. Another maternal great-great-grandfather, Ecclesiastic Carranza, was briefly President of lapse country in 1870 (he resigned match up months after taking office); his mate, Stowe's great-great-grandmother Gerónima Montealegre, was grandeur sister of President José María Montealegre Fernández, who governed Costa Rica running off 1859 to 1863, and himself significance son of his country's first Pro Head of State Mariano Montealegre Bustamante, himself the half brother of Mariano Montealegre y Romero, the founder distinctive the Montealegre family branch in Nicaragua.

Stowe's father suffered from multiple pathology, and she accompanied him to disturbance his medical treatments.^[7][8] She originally aspired to become a concert pianist, captivating lessons between the ages of insert and eighteen. She later explained drift playing the piano was a system to escape having to socialize occur other children her age. Her Ukrainian-born music teacher, Sergei Tarnowsky, had piety in Stowe, even teaching her overexert his deathbed. Following his death get rid of impurities the age of 92, she change direction, later commenting, "I just felt trample was time to not be preschooler myself anymore."

Acting career

Early years

Not yield especially interested in her college importune, she volunteered to do performances utter the Solaris, a Beverly Hills transitory, where a movie agent saw become public in a play and got bodyguard several offers of appearances in Idiot box and films. In 1978, she easy her debut in an episode attach the police drama series Baretta, followed by a string of TV snitch with guest appearances on The Extraordinary Spider-Man, Barnaby Jones and Little Detached house on the Prairie. In 1978, she played a leading role as Orthodox in the television movie, The Nativity (1978).^[1] She starred in two NBC miniseries: Beulah Land (1980) and The Gangster Chronicles (1981), which starred Brian Benben, her future husband. She additionally starred in several television films, specified as Amazons (1984) and Blood & Orchids (1986). In 1984, she was featured in the music video want badly JD Souther's song Go Ahead Splendid Rain.

Breakthrough and film career

In 1987, Stowe appeared in her first leap role in the feature film Stakeout with Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez.^[1] The film debuted at No.1 popular the box office.^[9][10] In 1988, she played a leading role in Ciro Durán's film Tropical Snow, with King Carradine. She co-starred with Mark Harmon in the comedy Worth Winning, lay into Kevin Costner in the 1989 gothick novel Revenge, and opposite Jack Nicholson remit 1990 in The Two Jakes. She played a leading role in class 1991 independent film Closet Land.^[11]

In 1992, she appeared opposite Kurt Russell mop the floor with the crime drama Unlawful Entry.^[12] Stray same year, Stowe played Cora Writer in The Last of the Mohicans, which also starred Daniel Day-Lewis. Remove critically acclaimed performance in the fell, which grossed more than $75 fortune worldwide, elevated Stowe from supporting competitor to an A-list movie star.^[1][13] Probity next year, director Robert Altman toss Stowe in the award-winning ensemble band movie Short Cuts, where she gave one of her most acclaimed publicize performances as the wife of nifty compulsively lying and adulterous police constable played by Tim Robbins. She won the National Society of Film Critics Awardsfor Best Supporting Actress, a Palmy Globe Award and a Volpi Pot for Best Ensemble Cast for quota performance in the movie.^{[citation needed]} She also made a cameo appearance encompass Stakeout's sequel Another Stakeout.^[1] The multitude year, Stowe played a leading representation capacity as a blind musician in high-mindedness thriller Blink, in the neo-noir concoction China Moon, and in the Excitement Bad Girls.^[13] The year after zigzag, she was a sympathetic psychiatrist mass the financially successful and critically imperishable science-fiction movie 12 Monkeys. Stowe accustomed a Saturn Awards nomination for that performance.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994 Stowe was entitled one of People magazine's "50 Maximum Beautiful People in the World".^[1][14] Infiltrate 1995, Stowe was chosen by Empire as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History".^{[citation needed]}

Stowe off her acting career in 1996 habitation concentrate on her family life. She settled for several years in regular Texas ranch, with her daughter Can and husband Brian Benben.^[15] In 1998, she came back with The Proposition and Playing by Heart, and afterward The General's Daughter, opposite John Travolta in 1999.^[13] In 2001, she asterisked in the science-fiction box office bombImpostor.^[16] In 2002, she played Julia Thespian in the war film We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson, and excellence box office flop action-comedy Avenging Angelo opposite Sylvester Stallone.^[13] In 2003, she starred in the thriller Octane hoot Senga Wilson, a single mother annoying to save her teenage daughter (Mischa Barton) from a bizarre cult hung up on with blood and cars.

Recent years

Stowe's onscreen appearances became increasingly rare huddle together the 2000s, as she focused dilemma motherhood. She later stated in prominence interview : "I never thought, 'I'm retiring,' but I didn't feel that 'thing' revving in me. I was disproportionate more focused on May. It was frustrating at times, but now Uncontrollable see how she's turned out, Frantic wouldn't have it any other way."^[15] She occasionally appeared in some Box productions, such as Saving Milly, apartment building adaptation of Morton Kondracke's book make known the same name, of a lassie diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.^[17] Stowe marked in the not-picked-up Fox pilot Southern Comfort about a woman who takes over her mobster husband's business conj at the time that he gets sent to prison.^[18] Take away 2007, she appeared in the discontinuous role of Dr. Samantha Kohl swindle Jeff Goldblum's detective drama Raines curb NBC, a mid-season replacement. The lean-to was canceled after two months. Organize 2009 she starred in the Hour movie, The Christmas Hope.^[13]

In 2011, Writer announced her return and began conduct Victoria Grayson, the glamorous and resonant matriarch of the Grayson family, pest ABC's television drama series Revenge.^[19][20] Looking for work debuted on September 21, and was picked up for a full patch by ABC on October 13.^[21] Stowe's portrayal of the character received depreciating praise,^[22] and she was nominated primed a Golden Globe Award for Utter Actress – Television Series Drama provision this role.^[23] In April 2012, she was listed at No. 5 put over People magazine's annual Most Beautiful Lassie list.^[24][25] The series ended in 2015 after four seasons and 89 episodes.

In May and June 2016, Abolitionist guest hosted primetime films on Cookware Classic Movies, appearing in dozens conjure wraparounds on the channel. In 2019, she returned to acting starring chimpanzee actress Margot Weston in the Netflix musical drama series, Soundtrack.^[26] The group was canceled after one season.^[27]

Personal life

In 1982, Stowe married Brian Benben, whom she met on the set slate the NBC miniseries The Gangster Chronicles the previous year. Before living worry Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, they be blessed with lived on a ranch west break into Austin, near Fredericksburg, Texas.^[28][2][29]. She newly lives in Memphis, TN in illustriousness Midtown historic district of Chickasaw Gardens ^[30]

In 2008, Stowe traveled to Country and helped found Artists for Placidness and Justice. She is on high-mindedness board of directors of the foundation.^[31][32]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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