Madeleine Stowe

The couple has a little daughter and spends all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. In 1988, she married the actor Leigh Lawson. Stowe is married to actor Brian Benben, with whom she acted in a TV film in 1981. Her first marriage, to American actor, Michael Witney, ended with his sudden death. In 1998 she came back and acted in The Proposition, her first film after this interruption . Since then she has played a variety of roles on stage and screen, including Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, opposite Robert Powell, in a 1981 television production. Stowe left in 1996 her work for a few years in order to concentrate on motherhood. As she matured, she ditched Villeneuve and broadened her horizons, appearing as an actress and singer, notably in Ken Russell's 1971 film version of The Boyfriend.

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. Soon she was regarded as "the face" of swinging 1960s London, and gained her nickname from her stick-thin pubescent figure. Director Robert Altman encouraged Stowe to play a part in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her best screen performances. Born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, a suburb of London, she became famous at the age of sixteen, under the influence of her boyfriend and manager, Justin de Villeneuve. Thereafter, several roles in major films followed. Twiggy (born September 19, 1949) is a British actress, model and singer, now usually known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. 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.

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).