Madeline Stowe is one of those actresses you don’t tend to think much about until she shows up, and then you’re blown away by her onscreen talent all over again. She’s kind of downplayed at times but can really put on a good show when she needs to. For many of her roles she’s a strong, independent woman that tends to have the rug ripped out from beneath her well-ordered world, metaphorically-speaking, but somehow comes back even stronger or remains pretty much the same.
She’s not a classic heroine but she is a very strong-willed person.
5. The Last of the Mohicans-Cora Munro
She plays opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in this film set during the French and Indian War, a time when the frontier was a very dangerous place. It can’t really be said that she’s an active combatant in the film but she’s not usually the type to lay down. This time however the action is taken up pretty heavily by the men as women in this era weren’t always considered warriors.
4. The General’s Daughter-Sara Sunhill
Brought in to help with an investigation, Sunhill is up against a secret that’s being guarded by quite a few people, some of whom are more than willing to keep it at any cost since the ramifications of anyone finding out are huge. As strong-willed as she is in this movie, and she is, she still tends to need John Travolta’s help in order to make it through the case in one piece. But she is instrumental in solving it.
3. We Were Soldiers-Julie Moore
The lives of army wives were far less dangerous than those of their husbands, but they were no less difficult. The dreaded letter that would be delivered to their door usually meant bad news, and eventually Julie Moore took it upon herself to deliver the bad news, forming a group of army wives that were there for one another in order to support each other and help through the hard times if they did happen to come along.
2. 12 Monkeys-Kathryn Railly
In the future the human race has been wiped out by an unknown plague that happened far back in the past. Those that remain live underground, where the contamination of the world above cannot touch them. They decide to send a single person back to the past in order to find out just where the virus came from and what it was. The only problem is that he has no idea just what time he’s in or where he needs to look.
1. Unlawful Entry-Karen Carr
It’s one thing to know that the police are there when you need them, it’s another to realize that one of them is somehow fixated on your wife and intent on making her husband out to be the bad guy. Eventually the cop gets bold enough to just start showing up whenever he wants, until it finally comes down to a showdown between the couple and the cop.
Madeline Stowe is definitely the more quiet type of actress, but what she says usually has great meaning.
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