page_title: Andie MacDowell
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Andie MacDowell / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Gong Li and Andie MacDowell at Cannes Film Festival
context_page_description: Rosalie Anderson MacDowell is an American actress and fashion model. She made her film debut in 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, for which she won Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. She also received Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Green Card and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
  MacDowell starred in Groundhog Day, Short Cuts, Michael, and Multiplicity. She had roles in a number of less successful movies, including The End of Violence, The Muse and Town & Country. She later went on to star in a number of independent films, and to play supporting parts in movies such as Beauty Shop, Footloose, and Magic Mike XXL. She received critical acclaim for the 2017 drama film Love After Love.
  MacDowell has modeled for Calvin Klein Inc. and has been a spokeswoman for L'Oréal since 1984, celebrating 30 years with the company in 2014.
context_section_description: In the early 1980s, MacDowell modelled for Vogue magazine and appeared in ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Vassarette, Armani perfume, Sabeth-Row, Mink International, Anne Klein, and Bill Blass. A series of billboards in Times Square and national television commercials for Calvin Klein won attention and led to her 1984 film debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. In this role, MacDowell’s lines were dubbed by Glenn Close because her Southern accent was considered too pronounced for her role as an Englishwoman. In 1985, MacDowell filled a supporting role as a doctor in St. Elmo's Fire.
  MacDowell studied method acting with teachers from the Actors Studio in addition to working privately with the renowned coach Harold Guskin. Four years later, director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Her performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and several other award nominations (citation needed), attentions which 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 director Harold Ramis's 1993 comedy, Groundhog Day, and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), opposite Hugh Grant.
  Since 1986, MacDowell has appeared in print and television advertisements for  cosmetic and haircare company L'Oréal. In later years she has acted primarily on television and in independent films. In 2012, she co-starred in the short-lived ABC Family series Jane by Design. From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the Hallmark Channel family series Cedar Cove. In 2019, she starred in the BBC sitcom Cuckoo.
caption: With Gong Li in 1998
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