Andie MacDowell was born on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina. She is an American screen actress.

She’s likability enabled her to weather such disasters as Hudson Hawk (1991) and Bad Girls (1994), and allowed her to shine in a number of other films, including Groundhog Day (1993), Short Cuts (1993), and the hit romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). Although she starred in a series of disappointing films during the late '90s, she remained highly visible, popping up in such movies as Unstrung Heroes (1995), The Muse (1999), and Town and Country (2000). She earned good reviews playing a middle-age woman infatuated with a younger man in Crush, but the film was poorly distributed and little seen. She appeared in a string of direct-to-video efforts including the supernatural thriller The Last Sign opposite Tim Roth. She returned to the multiplexes after landing a major part in the Queen Latifah film Beauty Shop in 2005. The next year she lent her distinct vocal qualities to the 2006 animated film Barnyard, twenty years after having her voice dubbed out of her film debut.

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 and two daughters. She was married to Atlanta, Georgia businessman Rhett Hartzog from 2001 to 2004.

Filmography

• Intervention (2007)
• "Insatiable" (2007)
• Barnyard (2006)
• The Making of 'Tara Road' (2005)
• Tara Road (2005)
• Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005)
• Beauty Shop (2005)
• The Last Sign (2005)
• "The Practice" (1 episode, 2003)
• Ginostra (2002)
• Jo (2002)
• Crush (2001)
• Dinner with Friends (2001)
• Reaching Normal (2001)
• On the Edge (2001)
• Town & Country (2001)
• Harrison's Flowers (2000)
• The Muse (1999)
• Muppets from Space (1999)
• Just the Ticket (1999)
• Shadrach (1998)
• The End of Violence (1997)
• Michael (1996)
• Multiplicity (1996)
• Unstrung Heroes (1995)
• Bad Girls (1994)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• Ruby Cairo (1993)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
• Hudson Hawk (1991)
• The Object of Beauty (1991)
• Green Card (1990)
• "Saturday Night Live" (1 episode, 1989)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• "Spenser: For Hire" (1 episode, 1988)
• "Segreto del Sahara, Il" (1987)
• St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Awards

• Honorary Cesar 1997
• Independent Spirit Award Best Actress "sex, lies and videotape" 1989
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress "sex, lies and videotape" 1989