Stowe pictured with John Travolta in 1999's The General's Daughter

Madeleine Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. She was born in Eagle Rock, a working class suburb of Los Angeles, California, the eldest of three sisters. Her father was British, while her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica as a young woman. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which threw a shadow of sadness over her childhood. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, singer, entertainer and aviator. ... The Generals Daughter is a 1999 film starring John Travolta. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... The Eagle Rock Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type mayor-council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

At the age of 10, Stowe began taking piano lessons with the aim of becoming a concert pianist — and also as a way of not having to socialize with other kids. Her Russian-born music teacher Sergei Tarnowsky (he taught Vladimir Horowitz before immigrating to the US), clearly had faith in her, teaching her from his deathbed. But when he died at the age of 96, she quit ("I just felt it was time to not be by myself anymore") — and at 18 she went on her first date. She then studied cinema and journalism at the University of Southern California. Not overly interested in her classes, Stowe volunteered to do performances at the Solaris, a Beverly Hills theater, where a movie agent saw her in a play, and subsequently got her several offers of appearances in movies TV and films. Vladimir Samoylovych Horowitz (Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць, Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц) (1 October 1903 – 5 November 1989) was a Ukrainian-born, American classical pianist. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ...

For nearly fifteen years Stowe appeared mostly in minor or supporting roles in movies and on TV. A few of her performances from this period became, however, well-known to the public, as was the case for Stakeout (1987), where she played opposite Richard Dreyfuss, and Revenge, (1990), which co-starred Kevin Costner. In 1992 Stowe finally landed a leading role in The Last of the Mohicans, which also starred Daniel Day-Lewis. Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor. ... Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. ... This article is about the 1992 film. ... Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957), is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. ...

Thereafter, several major film roles followed. The next year, director Robert Altman cast Stowe in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her most acclaimed screen performances as the wife of compulsive liar Tim Robbins. The following year, Madeleine was a blind musician in the thriller Blink, co-starring Aidan Quinn (14 years earlier, she had a guest role as a blind painter in Little House on the Prairie[1]). The year after that, she was a sympathetic psychiatrist in the science-fiction movie Twelve Monkeys. Stowe postponed her acting career in 1996 in order to concentrate on motherhood. In 1998 she came back with The Proposition. Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Short Cuts is a 1993 film directed by Robert Altman. ... Tim Robbins at Cannes, 2001 Height: 6 ft 4 in / 1. ... The 1994 thriller film Blink stars Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn, and is a production of New Line Cinema. ... Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959 Rockford, Illinois, USA) is an Irish-American actor. ... The following is a list of episodes for the television show Little House on the Prairie. ... Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. ...

Stowe has been married to actor Brian Benben since 1982, after meeting when they acted in a TV film the previous year. The couple have a daughter, May (born 1996) and a son, and spend all their spare time on the ranch they own in Texas. Brian Benben (born on June 18, 1956 in Winchester, Virginia) is an American actor. ... Official language(s) English (de facto) See also languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (261,797 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

Partial filmography

• Southern Comfort (TV Series) (2006) (TV)
• Saving Milly (2005) (TV)
• Octane (2003)
• Impostor (2002)
• Avenging Angelo (2002)
• We Were Soldiers (2002)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) (TV)
• The General's Daughter (1999)
• The Proposition (1998)
• Playing by Heart (1998)
• Twelve Monkeys (1995)
• Bad Girls (1994)
• China Moon (1994)
• Blink (1994)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• Another Stakeout (1993) (uncredited)
• Unlawful Entry (1992)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• Closet Land (1991), as The Victim
• The Two Jakes (1990)
• Revenge (film) (1990)
• Stakeout (1987)
• Blood & Orchids (1986)

Octane (aka Pulse in the United States) is a 2003 film by Marcus Adams. ... Impostor is based upon a short story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953. ... Avenging Angelo is a 2002 film directed by Martyn Burke which stars Sylvester Stallone and Madeleine Stowe. ... We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film that dramatized the Battle of Ia Drang which took place in November 1965, the first major engagement of American troops in the Vietnam War. ... The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. ... The Generals Daughter is a 1999 film starring John Travolta. ... The Proposition is a 2005 movie directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. ... Playing by Heart is a 1998 dramedy film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters. ... Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. ... The 1994 western film Bad Girls stars Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore. ... China Moon is a 1994 neo-noir film written by Roy Carlson and directed by John Bailey. ... The 1994 thriller film Blink stars Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn, and is a production of New Line Cinema. ... Short Cuts is a 1993 film directed by Robert Altman. ... Another Stakeout is a 1993 comedy that stars Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Rosie ODonnell. ... ... This article is about the 1992 film. ... Closet Land is a 1991 independent film directed by Radha Bharadwaj and stars Alan Rickman as a sadistic, ruthless interrogator and Madeleine Stowe as a young author of childrens books accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her particular book entitled: Closet Land, a story about a child who, as... The Two Jakes is the sequel to the 1974 movie Chinatown. ... The 1990 action thriller movie Revenge stars Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Miguel Ferrer and Sally Kirkland. ... The 1987 movie Stakeout stars Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Madeleine Stowe. ... Blood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. ...

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• IMDB entry
• Madeleine Stowe Online (fansite)
• "When Madeleine Stowe Cries: Short Stories on Cinema"; a cinema related story book published in 2007 in Hebrew by "Glory" Press in Hebrew. Many of Israel's leading writers participated in it, such as Yaron London, Dvorit Shargal and Nimrod Kamer.