Edie Sedgwick

"Like a Rolling Stone" and "Leapord-Skin Pillbox Hat", both songs by Bob Dylan, were purportedly written about Sedgwick. The couple has a little daughter and spends all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. The Velvet Underground song Femme Fatale (on the album The Velvet Underground and Nico) is also reported to be about Sedgwick. Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom she acted in a TV film in 1981.
The Cult wrote a song about her life called "Edie (Ciao Baby)" which was on their "Sonic Temple" album released in 1989. In 1998 she came back and acted in The Proposition, her first film after this interruption . Her death was ruled a suicide/ drug overdose. Stowe left in 1996 her work for a few years in order to concentrate on motherhood.

Sedgwick died in November 1971 from barbituate poisoning. She was a touching blind musician in the thriller Blink, co-starring Aidan Quinn, and a sympathetic psychiatrist in the science-fiction movie Twelve Monkeys. Shooting resumed on Ciao! Manhattan in 1970 and was completed in 1971. Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her best screen performances. Electroconvulsive therapy treatments were administered extensively and several efforts at drug rehabilitation were made. Thereafter, several roles in major films followed. In August 1969, she was admitted to the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara where she met Mike Post whom she married. 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.

Sedgwick’s rapidly degenrating health saw her return to family in California and spend time in several different psychiatric institutions. 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. After shooting some footage in New York, work on the film was abandoned due to budget and legal problems. Stowe performed during nearly fifteen years mostly in minor roles as supporting actress in TV films and cinema movies. In April 1967 Sedgwick began shooting on Ciao! Manhattan an underground movie in which she was to star. 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. The relationship ended in 1967. She then studied cinema and journalism at Southern California University.

During this relationship she became dependent on heroin and barbituates. 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. In 1966, Sedgwick began a tumultuous relationship with Bob Neuwirth. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of sadness over her childhood. While involved with Dylan, Sedgwick was introduced to LSD. Her father was North American and her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica when she was a young woman. Following her departure from Warhol’s circles, Sedgwick began living at Hotel Chelsea where she became involved with Bob Dylan. Dylan’s friends convinced Sedgwick to sign up with Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. She was born in Eagle Rock, a community next to Los Angeles, California, as the eldest of three sisters.

The friendship did not last beyond 1966 when Warhol and Sedgwick made an acrimonious public split. Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. During this period the pair would often dress alike and Sedgwick frequently called herself 'Mrs Warhol'. Stakeout (1987). She became Warhol's Girl of the Year during 1965 when she accompanied him everywhere in the New York social scene. Worth Winning (1989). It was during this period that Sedgwick began using illegal drugs, particularly amphetamines. Tropical Snow (1989).

In 1965 she met Andy Warhol and quickly became his favourite 'Warhol superstar', featuring in many of his underground films including Poor Little Rich Girl, Vinyl, Beauty #2, the Chelsea Girls and Diaries, Notes and Sketches. Revenge (1990). She appeared in TIME, Life and Vogue between 1963 and 1965. The Two Jakes (1990). In 1964, Sedgwick moved to New York to pursue a career in modelling. Closet Land (1991). As a young woman Sedgwick suffered with clinical depression and anorexia nervosa. Unlawful Entry (1992).

Later in life, Sedgwick claimed to have experienced sexual abuse as a child. The Last of the Mohicans (1992). She was born in Santa Barbara, California as Edith Sedgwick to a troubled and eccentric establishment family which was seriously blighted by alcoholism and mental illness. Another Stakeout (1993). Edie Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 - November 15, 1971) is best known as a star of underground films made by artist Andy Warhol in the 1960's. Short Cuts (1993). The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Blink (1994).

Andy Warhol. China Moon (1994). American Girl. Bad Girls (1994). Jean Stein: Edie. Twelve Monkeys (1995). Jean Stein: Edie an America Biography. The Proposition (1998).

Film Factory. Playing by Heart (1998). Michael Opray: Andy Warhol. The General's Daughter (1999). Victor Bockris: Andy Warhol. Impostor (2002). All Movie Guide (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll/). We Were Soldiers (2002).

Edie Sedgwick fan site (http://www.rams.demon.co.uk/esmain.htm/). Avenging Angelo (2002). Ciao! Manhattan (1972). Octane (2003). Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1970). The Chelsea Girls (1967).

**** aka the Four Star Movie (1965). Outer and Inner Space (1965). Beauty #2 (1965). Poor Little Rich Girl (1965).

Restaurant (1965). Vinyl (1965). Screen Test #2 (1965). Space 1965.