Actor Bio

Next year Madeleine Stowe will make her directorial debut on the epic romantic Western she co-wrote, The Unbound Captives, starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson. Stowe feels privileged to have Academy Award-winning cinematographer John Toll (Legends of the Fall , Braveheart , Thin Red Line ) and producer Charles Roven (Three Kings , Dark Knight , Batman Begins ) on her team. The story was inspired by stories she heard while living on her Texas Hill Country ranch.

Stowe had her film debut in Stakeout , opposite Richard Dreyfuss, and went on to work with Kevin Costner in the Tony Scott-directed Revenge and with Jack Nicholson in The Two Jakes , which he also directed. She also starred in Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans , opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, and has worked for directors Terry Gilliam in 12 Monkeys , Michael Apted in Blink and Robert Altman on Shortcuts -- for which she received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics.

Other films include The General’s Daughter , opposite John Travolta, China Moon , Playing By Heart , alongside Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands, and We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson. She has also appeared on television in the true story Saving Milly , from Morton Kondracke’s best-selling book about his marriage to his Parkinson’s afflicted wife, and more recently in the Jeff Goldblum series, Raines .

Stowe lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Brian Benben, and daughter May.