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Who is Andie Macdowell?

Andie MacDowell was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on the 21st of April, 1958, in Gaffney, South Carolina. She is the youngest of four daughters. Her parents divorced when she was six years old, and she worked minimum wage jobs as a teenager for money. She enrolled in Winthrop College, but left in 1978, instead moving to New York City to follow her passion for modelling. She signed on with Elite Model Management. In the early 1980s, she starred in a series of television commercials for Calvin Klein jeans. In 1982, Andie’s mother died from alcohol complications. In the late 1980s, she became the exclusive spokesperson for L’Oreal. She represented them in North America until 1989, and continued on in Europe for several years into the 1990s. In 1984, Andie gained her first film role, portraying Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. She had a Southern accent, and the makers of the film decided it was all wrong for Jane. So Glenn Close dubbed the role. Andie’s performance was canned worldwide, but she preserved. She next gained a role on St Elmo’s Fire in 1985. The following year, she married Paul Qualley, and she bore him son Justin in 1986, daughter Rainey in 1989, and daughter Sarah Margaret in 1995. Her acting career finally flourished after she gained the role of housewife Ann in the 1989 hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape. She won several awards for that role. She has since divorced and remarried.