Birth Name: Rosalie Anderson MacDowell
Place of Birth: Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
Date of Birth: 21 April 1958
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Type/Color: Curly dark brown
Ethnicity: English, French, as well as Scottish, Irish, Welsh
Family info: Andy MacDowell is an American model and actress, known for her role in the films “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. She is the daughter of Pauline “Paula” Johnston (née Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive.
Andie has English, French, as well as Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.
Andie’s paternal grandparents were John William MacDowell (the son of William Joseph McDowell and Ione Elliott Vinson) and Rainsford Fairbanks DuBose (the daughter of McNeely DuBose and Rosalie Anderson).
Andie’s maternal grandparents were Joseph Calder Oswald (the son of John Shorten Oswald and Phebe Sarah Peeples) and Evelyn Viola Johnston (the daughter of Kruger Edward Johnston and Lillian Pauline Kelley).
Sources: Genealogy of Andie MacDowell (focusing on her father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Family history of the MacDowell family – http://www.thetracyfamilyhistory.net
Genealogy of Andie’s maternal grandfather, Joseph Calder Oswald – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Andie’s maternal grandmother, Evelyn Viola Johnston – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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