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Andie MacDowell
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Actor Born: April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, SC Biography:The product of a profoundly unhappy home life, "Andie MacDowell" was compelled to make her own way from an early age. The Gaffney, SC, native spent her teenage years working a number of minimum-wage jobs before dropping out of Winthrop College when she was a sophomore in order to become an Elite model. Her innocent, well-scrubbed good looks were not only suited to her job as a cosmetics model, but, in 1984, they won her the role of Jane Porter in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. Unable to overcome her natural Carolina cadence, MacDowell's lines were dubbed by "Glenn Close" in the film -- the first and last time that audiences were denied the actress' warm, relaxing vocal shadings. Joining the Brat Pack brigade with "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), MacDowell just as quickly broke away from it with her riveting performance in "sex, lies and videotape" (1989); her role as a dissatisfied... Full Biography
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