Madeleine Stowe: Difference between revisions

{{short description|American actress (born 1958)}}

| caption = Stowe in New Hampshire in 2008

| birth_place = [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]], U.S.

| years_active = 1977–present1978–present

'''Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora''' (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her role in the 1987 crime-comedy film ''[[Stakeout (1987 film)|Stakeout]]''. She went on to star in the films ''[[Revenge (1990 film)|Revenge]]'' (1990), ''[[Unlawful Entry (film)|Unlawful Entry]]'' (1992), ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1992), ''[[Blink (1993 film)|Blink]]'' (1993), ''[[12 Monkeys]]'' (1995), ''[[The General's Daughter (film)|The General's Daughter]]'' (1999), and ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'' (2002). For her role in the 1993 independent film ''[[Short Cuts]]'', she won the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress]].

Stowe, the first of three children, was born at the [[Queen of Angels Hospital]],<ref name=lamag/> in [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jackson|first=Vannessa|date=2016-05-17|title=Madeleine Stowe|url=https://hollywoodlife.com/celeb/madeleine-stowe/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Hollywood Life|language=en-US}}</ref> and raised in [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California|Eagle Rock]], a section of Los Angeles. Her father, Robert Stowe, was a civil engineer from [[Oregon]], while her mother, Mireya (née Mora Steinvorth), came from a prominent family in [[Costa Rica]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madeleineonline.com/madeleine/biography |title=The Leading Madeleine Online Site on the Net |publisher=MadeleineOnline.com |access-date=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB32CCC2E8621E6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Search Results|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.more.com/madeleine-stowe-second-act?page=2 |title=Madeleine Stowe's Second Act &#124; MORE Magazine |publisher=More.com |access-date=2014-06-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008025615/http://www.more.com/madeleine-stowe-second-act?page=2 |archive-date=2014-10-08 }}</ref> One of Stowe's maternal great-great-grandfathers, politician [[José Joaquín Mora Porras]], was a younger brother of President [[Juan Rafael Mora Porras]], who governed Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859. Another maternal great-great-grandfather, [[Bruno Carranza]], was briefly President of that country in 1870 (he resigned three months after taking office); his wife, Stowe's great-great-grandmother [[Gerónima Montealegre]], was the sister of President [[José María Montealegre Fernández]], who governed Costa Rica from 1859 to 1863, and himself the son of his country's first Vice Head of State [[Mariano Montealegre Bustamante]]., himself the half brother of Mariano Montealegre y Romero, the founder of the Montealegre family branch in Nicaragua.

Stowe, whose's father suffered from [[multiple sclerosis]], and who she accompanied him to all his entire medical treatments.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130131144108/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59301226.html?dids=59301226:59301226&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+30%2C,+1994&author=HILARY+de+VRIES&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext "The Trip to Bankable"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', January 30, 1994.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Madeleine Stowe on Caring For Someone With MS|url=http://ms.newlifeoutlook.com/caring-for-someone-with-ms/|website=NewLifeOutlook &#124; Multiple Sclerosis| date=October 23, 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref>, She originally aspired to become a concert pianist, taking lessons between the ages of ten and eighteen. She later explained that playing the piano was a means to escape having to socialize with other children her age. Her Russian-born music teacher, [[Sergei Tarnowsky]], had faith in Stowe, even teaching her from his deathbed. Following his death at the age of 92, she quit, later commenting, "I just felt it was time to not be by myself anymore."

In 1982, Stowe married [[Brian Benben]], whom she met on the set of the [[NBC]] miniseries ''[[The Gangster Chronicles]]'' the previous year. Now living in [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles]], they have lived on a ranch west of Austin, near [[Fredericksburg, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.claimspages.com/news/2011/11/28/tree-crushes-actress-madeleine-stowes-car-in-pacific-palisades/ | title=Tree Crushes Actress Madeleine Stowe's Car in Pacific Palisades | date=November 28, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=lamag>{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Amy |title=Madeleine Stowe |url=https://www.lamag.com/lastory/madeleine-stowe1/ |website=Los Angeles magazine |access-date=December 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827045707/https://www.lamag.com/lastory/madeleine-stowe1/ |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |date=February 1, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Macor |first1=Alison |title=Madeleine in the Hill Country |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/madeleine-in-the-hill-country/ |access-date=December 22, 2021 |work=Texas Monthly |date=June 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814204719/https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/madeleine-in-the-hill-country/ |archive-date=August 14, 2021}}</ref>

In 2008, Stowe traveled to [[Haiti]] and helped found [[Artists for Peace and Justice]]. She is on the board of directors of the foundation.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/madeleine-stowe-scheming-vixen-screen-philanthropist-haiti-off/story?id=15355171| title = abc News| website = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apjnow.org/the-team/|title=The Team - Artists For Peace And Justice web site|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref>

| ''[[It – Welcome to Derry|It: Welcome to Derry]]''

| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/04/it-prequel-series-welcome-to-derry-welcomes-madeleine-stowe-stephen-rider-1235325970/|title=Max ‘It’'It' Prequel Series ‘Welcome'Welcome To Derry’Derry' Welcomes Madeleine Stowe & Stephen Rider|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=April 14, 2023|access-date=April 14, 2023}}</ref>

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