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A Southern belle who’s seemingly pure, virtuous, farm-girl sexy and city-woman sophisticated all at the same time, Andie MacDowell has persevered in an industry that wanted to write her off from the start. The model-turned-actress made her feature debut as Jane in “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes” (1984), suffering the indignity of having her inappropriate Southern accent dubbed over by Glenn Close. Writers like critic John Simon, who labeled her “that horse-faced pseudo-sultry jeans model . . . who cannot act and cannot even read lines”, had a field day, but MacDowell dug in rather than quit. Using her own voice for Joel Schumacher’s brat-pack flick “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985), she began demonstrating that some models were more than just skin deep. Her dead-on portrayal of the sexually repressed wife of Peter Gallagher in the acclaimed “sex, lies and videotape” (1989), winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes that year, earned her several Best Actress prizes but no Oscar nomination, an oversight deemed “incomprehensible” by The New York Times.

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