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| Name: | Andie MacDowell |
| Birth Name: | Rosalie Anderson MacDowell |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Sex: | F |
| Nationality: | American |
| Birth Date: | April 21, 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Gaffney, South Carolina, USA |
| Profession: | actress, model |
| Education: | Winthrop College (dropped out) |
| Husband/Wife: | Rhett DeCamp Hartzog (high school classmate; married on November 10; 2001), Paul Qualley (model; musician; married in 1986; divorced in 1999) |
| Father: | Marion MacDowell (lumber executive; divorced) |
| Mother: | Pauline MacDowell (died in 1981 caused by chronic alcoholism) |
| Sister: | Babs Rogers (aka Barbara MacDowell; teacher; older), Beverly MacDowell (realtor; older), Julia MacDowell (interior decorator; older) |
| Son: | Justin Qualley (born in 1986) |
| Daughter: | Sarah Margaret Qualley (born in 1995), Rainey Qualley (born in March 1989) |
| Claim to fame: | as Ann Bishop Melaney, in Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) |
| Contact: | Click here |
| ANDIE MACDOWELL GOSSIP, NEWS & TRIVIA |
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- Denied the internet rumors saying she was Charlie Chaplin's illegitimate daughter. (March 26, 2005)
- Received the Medal of Honor in the Arts from Winthrop University. (2004)
- Is so confident that older actresses have a future that she has chosen to devote most of her time now to her children - and return full-force to film making in several years. (February 19, 2004)
- MacDowell received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Lander University in Greenwood, S.C. for her dedication to the Graham Children's Health Center. (8 May 2001)
- Her mother, Paula, died in 1981 due to chronic alcoholism.
- In 1984 Andie met Paul Qualley during a GAP fashion shoot, and in 1986 she married him.
- In 2000, MacDowell filed suit against Wal-Mart for displaying her picture in several stores without permission.
- She made her acting debut in GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES' (1984), but the excellent movie SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (1989) is considered to be the real start of her actress career.
- She was L'Oreal's exclusive model for several years until 1989 in the US, and continued modeling until 1990.
- Spokesmodel for L'Oreal cosmetics and hair care
- When she was six her parents divorced and depression drove her mother to alcoholism.
- Worked at McDonalds and Pizza Hut as a teenager.
- Her voice in GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES (1984) was dubbed by Glenn Close.
- There are similarities between TWIN PEAKS (1990) and the film THE HIDDEN (1987), which had been released in 1987. Both feature Kyle MacLachlan as an enigmatic cop (otherworldly in TWIN PEAKS, actually an alien in THE HIDDEN) on a search for a killer who is actually not human, who takes possession of different human bodies to commit senseless murders.
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at Golden Globe Awards for FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1995)
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