Trivia

Pretended to be a reporter just so she could meet John Travolta before she became famous.

In 1982, she married Brian Benben after one year of dating. They met on the set of the NBC miniseries The Gangster Chronicles (1981).

She and husband Brian Benben own a working cattle ranch outside of Fredericksburg, TX.

Her father was from Oregon and had Dutch, German and English ancestry. Her mother was from a prominent political family in Costa Rica. One of Madeleine's maternal great-grandfathers was a German immigrant to Costa Rica, while one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Bruno Carranza, was President of Costa Rica (serving a term of several months).

Is a practitioner of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Chuan, Kickboxing, & Judo. She also enjoys Belly dancing, Salsa, & Sambo.

Replaced Faith Hill as Julie Moore in We Were Soldiers (2002).

In 2012 she was ranked #5 in "People" Magazine's Most Beautiful Women of the World.

In 1995 she was chosen by "Empire" magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#90).

Mother, with husband Brian Benben, of daughter May Theodora Benben (b. June 28, 1996 in San Antonio, Texas).

Was extremely shy in high school.

Portrayed a blind woman in Blink (1993) and in an episode of Little House on the Prairie (1974).

She played two heroines from the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper--Cora Munro (older sister) in The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Hetty Hutter (younger sister) in The Deerslayer (1978).

She appeared in the film Revenge (1990) and later in the TV series "Revenge" (2011). Neither had anything to do with the other.

In The Last of the Mohicans (1992), her character is Cora Munro; in China Moon (1994), it is "Rachel Munro".

In one of her earliest film appearances, she was re-voiced by Anne Lockhart, daughter of June Lockhart and granddaughter of Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart.