Andie MacDowell
Date of Birth
21 April 1958, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
Birth Name
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell
Height
5′ 8 (1.73 m)
Mini Biography
MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline “Paula” Johnston (nee Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. Her family owned an ante-bellum summer house in Arden, North Carolina, near where she now lives. It has since been made into a bed-and-breakfast named the Blake House Inn. Graffiti from her childhood visits is preserved in an upstairs bedroom closet. She dropped out of Winthrop College as a sophomore in 1978 moved to Columbia, SC and spent several years with her sister Beverly (Babs), working as a waitress in one of the first “Disco” nightclubs emerging from the 70′s Carolina Beach Clubs. Rose and her live in boyfriend, Chuck Neal, the nightclub DJ, organized a fashion show at the club in Columbia, “Stage Door” that attracted among others, photographers affiliated with New York modeling agencies. Discovered almost overnight and signed with Elite Model Management.
