![]() ![]() 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. Four years later, director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). 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. Elmo's Fire, but her film career seemed to have stalled. 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. She worked with such esteemed photographers as Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Herb Ritts among others. 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. In 2004, she was awarded a Medal of Honor in the Arts from Winthrop College. 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. "Rosie", as she was known locally, lived with her sister Beverly and saved all her money so she could move to New York City and start her career. 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. She attended Winthrop College for two years before moving briefly to Columbia, South Carolina. Graffiti from her childhood visits is preserved in an upstairs bedroom closet. It has since been made into a bed-and-breakfast named the Blake House Inn. Her family owned an antebellum era summer house in Arden, North Carolina. MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline "Paula" Johnston (née Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. She has received the Golden Camera and an Honorary César. She has received three Golden Globe Awards nominations. ![]() Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American model and actress. ![]()
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