Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American actor and fashion model best known for her roles in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Green Card, Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Short Cuts, and sex, lies, and videotape.
She has been married twice and has three children. Both her daughters, Rainey (her second child) and Margaret Qualley (her youngest child) are actresses. MacDowell has now acted with them both (playing the mother of their characters); alongside Rainey in Mighty Fine (Rainey's screen debut) and Margaret with Maid. She also has a son named Justin, her oldest. All her children were born from her first marriage with Paul Qualley, a former fellow model and a rancher.
MacDowell has been the spokeswoman for L'Oreal for over thirty years.
Film Roles
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Miss Jane Porter
- St. Elmo's Fire as Dale Biberman
- sex, lies, and videotape as Ann Bishop Mullany
- Green Card as Bronte Parrish
- Hudson Hawk as Anna Baragli
- The Object Of Beauty as Tina
- The Player as Herself
- Short Cuts as Ann Finnigan
- Groundhog Day as Rita Hanson
- Four Weddings and a Funeral as Carrie
- Muppets from Space as Shelly Snipes
- The Muse (1999) as Laura Phillips
- Beauty Shop as Terri
- Barnyard as Etta the Hen (voice)
- Magic Mike XXL as Nancy
- Paper Year as Joanne Winters
- Ready or Not as Becky Le Domas
Television Roles
- Saturday Night Live as Herself (host)
- The Practice as Grace Chapman (1 episode)
- 30 Rock as Claire Williams (1 episode)
- Jane by Design as Gray Chandler Murray
- Cedar Cove as Olivia Lockhart
- Mr. Mayor as Herself
- Maid as Paula
