Emmanuelle Seigner

She married the film director Roman Polanski in 1989 with whom she has two children. The couple has a little daughter and spends all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. She managed to achieve international status as a professional model. Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom she acted in a TV film in 1981. She was raised at a convent school, and began to work as a model at the age of fourteen, capitalizing on her beauty. In 1998 she came back and acted in The Proposition, her first film after this interruption . She is the granddaughter of Louis Seigner and sister of Mathilde Seigner. Stowe left in 1996 her work for a few years in order to concentrate on motherhood.

Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. 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. L'Année des méduses (1984). Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her best screen performances. Détective (1985). Thereafter, several roles in major films followed. Cours privé (1986). 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.

Frantic (1988). 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. Il Male oscuro (1990). Stowe performed during nearly fifteen years mostly in minor roles as supporting actress in TV films and cinema movies. Bitter Moon (1992). 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. Le Sourire (1994). She then studied cinema and journalism at Southern California University.

Pourvu que ça dure (1996). 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. Nirvana (1997). Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of sadness over her childhood. La Divine poursuite (1997). Her father was North American and her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica when she was a young woman. R.P.M. (1997). She was born in Eagle Rock, a community next to Los Angeles, California, as the eldest of three sisters.

Place Vendôme (1998). Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. The Ninth Gate (1999). Stakeout (1987). Buddy Boy (1999). Worth Winning (1989). Streghe verso nord (2001). Tropical Snow (1989).

Corps à corps (2003). Revenge (1990). Os Imortais (2003). The Two Jakes (1990). Closet Land (1991). Unlawful Entry (1992).

The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Another Stakeout (1993). Short Cuts (1993). Blink (1994).

China Moon (1994). Bad Girls (1994). Twelve Monkeys (1995). The Proposition (1998).

Playing by Heart (1998). The General's Daughter (1999). Impostor (2002). We Were Soldiers (2002).

Avenging Angelo (2002). Octane (2003).