Madeleine Stowe

The couple has a little daughter and spends all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. Gwen appeared in Kevin's Dogma, in a small role as a bus clerk. Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom she acted in a TV film in 1981. Director Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with a guy, and used it as an inspiration for his rather unique take on a similiar theme in his own film Chasing Amy. In 1998 she came back and acted in The Proposition, her first film after this interruption . In it she plays a young woman whose friends help her in the (lesbian) dating scene. Stowe left in 1996 her work for a few years in order to concentrate on motherhood. An early film Gwen starred in, for which she also helped produce with her then-girlfriend, Rose Troche, was called Go Fish.

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. Guinevere Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote the screenplay which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her best screen performances. Amoungst other recent films, she starred in the 1997 British BDSM/Fetish comedy film Preaching to the Perverted as the New York dominatrix "Tanya Cheex". Thereafter, several roles in major films followed. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on May 23, 1968. 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. Guinevere Turner is a lesbian actress and writer.

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. Stowe performed during nearly fifteen years mostly in minor roles as supporting actress in TV films and cinema movies. 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 then studied cinema and journalism at Southern California University.

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. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of sadness over her childhood. Her father was North American and her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica when she was a young woman. She was born in Eagle Rock, a community next to Los Angeles, California, as the eldest of three sisters.

Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. Stakeout (1987). Worth Winning (1989). Tropical Snow (1989).

Revenge (1990). 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).