Person · Actor

Madeleine Stowe

Born

August 18, 1958

From

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also:
Actress
Director
Writer

Credits on file

Decades active

Awards

In short · Acting since 1974, 6 decades active, 34 credits, 1 National Society Of Film Critics Award win.

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Biography

Madeleine Stowe was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mireya Maria (Mora Steinvorth) and Robert Alfred Stowe, a civil engineer. Her mother was from a prominent political family in Costa Rica. Stowe grew up in Eagle Rock, a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles. At age ten she started practicing for a career as a concert pianist and trained every day for hours. However, when her instructor died in 1976 she more or less quit playing. She went to University of Southern California and studied cinema and journalism before taking up acting at Beverly Hills' Solaris Theater. She made a few appearances in TV and on film but her breakthrough came in 1987 with *Stakeout* (1987). Other major credits include *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992) and *Short Cuts* (1993). When not filming, she spends her time at her ranch in Texas, which she shares with her husband Brian Benben.