Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Marie Stowe is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her breakthrough role in the 1987 crimecomedy film Stakeout. She went on to star in the films Revenge , Unlawful Entry , The Last of the Mohicans , Blink , Bad Girls ,Monkeys , The Generals Daughter , and We Were Soldiers . For her role in the 1993 independent film Short Cuts, she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Stowe, the first of three children, was born at the Queen of Angels Hospital, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and raised in Eagle Rock, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her mother, Mireya , had come from a prominent family in Costa Rica. Her father, Robert Stowe, was a civil engineer from a poor Oregon family. One of Stowes maternal greatgreatgrandfathers, politician Jos Joaqun Mora Porras, was a younger brother of President Juan Rafael Mora Porras, who governed Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859. Another one of Stowes maternal greatgreatgrandfathers was Bruno Carranza, President of Costa Rica in 1870, albeit briefly, as he resigned three months after taking power. His wife, Stowes greatgreatgrandmother, Gernima Montealegre, was the sister of President Jos Mara Montealegre Fernndez, who governed Costa Rica from 1859 to 1863. One of Stowes maternal greatgrandfathers was a German immigrant to Costa Rica.

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