Madeleine Stowe

The couple has a little daughter and spends all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. She had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for whom Keith serves as a bodyguard. Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom she acted in a TV film in 1981. Since Buffy she has returned to film, with the recent Eurotrip, co-starring Scott Mechlowicz and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff Schaffer. In 1998 she came back and acted in The Proposition, her first film after this interruption . She remained in the role until the show's cancellation in 2003. Stowe left in 1996 her work for a few years in order to concentrate on motherhood. In Summer 2000 Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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. In 2000 she made Snow Day. Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her best screen performances. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget and Can't Be Heaven. Thereafter, several roles in major films followed. She then returned to television for Meego, for which she won a Young Artist Award. 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. Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the lead role in Harriet the Spy.

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. It was on All My Children that Trachtenberg first worked with future Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Stowe performed during nearly fifteen years mostly in minor roles as supporting actress in TV films and cinema movies. During the same period she played the second Lily Montgomery in All My Children. 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. She played Nona Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. She then studied cinema and journalism at Southern California University. Her first credited role came in 1993.

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 went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of sadness over her childhood. Born in New York City, she had her first television appearance in 1988 in a commercial for Wisk Detergent. Her father was North American and her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica when she was a young woman. Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985 in New York, United States) is an American television and movie actress best known for her role as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was born in Eagle Rock, a community next to Los Angeles, California, as the eldest of three sisters. Harriet the Spy (1996).

Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. Inspector Gadget (1999). Stakeout (1987). Eurotrip (2004). Worth Winning (1989). Mysterious Skin (2004). Tropical Snow (1989). Ice Princess (2005) (in post-production).

Revenge (1990). Vinyl (2005) (in pre-production). 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).