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Danish-Swedish Drama Best Film at Shanghai

ABC News - Found Jun. 22, 2009
Presenting the award during Sunday's ceremony, another juror, veteran American actress Andie MacDowell said, 'It was a beautiful performance...
Danish-Swedish film wins Shanghai top prize - AFP via Yahoo!
Danish-Swedish drama best film at Shanghai - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Danish-Swedish drama best film at Shanghai - Seattle Times
'Original' winsfilm festival's Golden Goblet - Shanghai Daily
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Posted on June 22, 2009, 7:15 am

Andie MacDowell Turns On Ageist Hollywood: Youth Obsessed!

Post Chronicle - Found Jun. 21, 2009
Andie MacDowell has backtracked on her comments that older women aren't neglected in Hollywood - insisting the U.S. movie industry is obsessed with

Posted on June 21, 2009, 5:34 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Grimsby Telegraph - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 6:59 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Wandsworth Guardian - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:29 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Midhurst and Petworth Observer - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:26 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Kidderminster Shuttle - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:25 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Driffield Times - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:24 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Morpeth Herald - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:21 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Chester Evening Leader - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:21 am

Andie MacDowell: I found 40s hard

Salisbury Journal - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Andie MacDowell has claimed that Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast her when she was in her 40s. The 51-year-old actress said while she

Posted on June 18, 2009, 5:09 am

Andie MacDowell Biography

Andie MacDowell
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Andie MacDowell
Born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell
April 21, 1958 (1958-04-21) (age 51)
Gaffney, South Carolina
Years active 1984 - present
Spouse(s) Paul Qualley (1986-1999)
Rhett Hartzog (2001-2004)

Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American model and actress. She has received three Golden Globe Awards nominations. She has received the Golden Camera and an Honorary César.

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Early life

MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline "Paula" Johnston (née Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive.12 She is of mainly Scottish descent.3 Her family owned an ante-bellum summer house in Arden, North Carolina. It has since been made into a bed-and-breakfast named the Blake House Inn. Graffiti from her childhood visits is preserved in an upstairs bedroom closet. She attended Winthrop College for two years before moving briefly to Columbia, South Carolina. There she worked two jobs; one in a clothing boutique and the other in a restaurant/bar called "Stage Door" where as a waitress she once served Senator Strom Thurmond. Rose lived with her sister Beverly and saved all her money so she could move to NY and start her career. She was initially spotted by a rep from Wilhelmina Models while on a trip to Los Angeles before she would later sign with Elite Model Management in New York City. In 2004, she was awarded a Medal of Honor in the Arts from Winthrop College.

Career

In the early 1980s, MacDowell modeled for Vogue magazine and appeared in ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Vassarette, Armani perfume, Sabeth-Row, Mink International, Anne Klein and Bill Blass. She worked with such esteemed photographers as Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Herb Ritts among others. A series of billboards in Time Square and national television commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led to her 1984 film debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, a role in which her lines were recorded by Glenn Close because her southern accent was too pronounced for her to play the role of an Englishwoman. In 1985, she had a small part in St. Elmo's Fire, but her film career seemed to have stalled.

MacDowell at Cannes Film Festival, 2001

MacDowell used this time to study method acting with teachers from The Actors Studio in addition to working privately with the renowned coach Harold Guskin. Four years later, MacDowell hit her professional stride. Director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the 1989 independent film sex, lies, and videotape. Her performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, several other award nominations and led to a series of starring roles in films such as Green Card, The Object of Beauty, and Short Cuts.

In the 1990s, MacDowell achieved stardom due to the box office success of the 1993 comedy by Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, and the 1994 global blockbuster, Four Weddings and a Funeral (FWAAF), opposite Hugh Grant (who admitted afterwards to being intimidated by both MacDowell and her then-husband). Groundhog Day and FWAAF remain MacDowell's biggest box office hits to date.

MacDowell appears in print and television advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company L'Oréal.

Personal life

MacDowell was married from 1986 to 1999 to fellow former model and rancher Paul Qualley, whom she met while both were posing for Gap ads. The couple have a son, Justin and two daughters, Rainey and Sarah Margaret. She was married to Atlanta, Georgia, businessman Rhett Hartzog from 2001 to 2004.

MacDowell currently resides in the town of Biltmore Forest near Asheville, North Carolina. She is an avid hiker and general outdoors-woman.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Miss Jane Porter
1985 St. Elmo's Fire Dale Biberman
1988 The Secret of the Sahara Anthea
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape Ann Bishop Mullany Independent Spirit Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1990 Green Card Brontë Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1991 Hudson Hawk Anna Baragli
The Object of Beauty Tina
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules Emily TV-Movie
1992 The Player Herself Cameo appearance
1993 Short Cuts Ann Finnigan Golden Globe Special Ensemble Cast Award
Volpi Cup
Groundhog Day Rita Saturn Award for Best Actress
Ruby Cairo Elizabeth 'Bessie' Faro aka Ruby Cairo
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral Carrie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bad Girls Eileen Spenser
1995 Unstrung Heroes Selma Lidz
1996 Michael Dorothy Winters
Multiplicity Laura Kinney
1997 The End of Violence Page
1998 Shadrach Trixie
1999 Just the Ticket Linda Palinski also producer
Muppets from Space Shelley Snipes
The Muse Laura Phillips
2000 Harrison's Flowers Sarah Lloyd
2001 Town & Country Eugenie Claybourne also uncredited producer
On the Edge Lisa segment "Reaching Normal"
Crush Kate Scales
Dinner with Friends Karen TV-Movie
2002 Jo Jo TV-Movie
Ginostra Jessie
2005 The Last Sign Kathy Macfarlane
Beauty Shop Terri
Riding the Bus with My Sister Rachel Simon TV-Movie
Tara Road Marilyn
2006 Barnyard Etta the Hen voice
2007 Intervention Kelly
2008 Inconceivable Lottie Louise Du Bose
2009 The Six Wives of Henry Lefay TBA
The 5th Quarter Maryanne Abbate
As Good as Dead Helen Kalahan

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