Maddie Corman is an American

United States

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 television and film actress.

Career

Born Madeleine Cornman in New York City

New York City

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, New York

New York

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, she began her career as a child actress in the 1980s. Corman's first television appearance was in the 1985 ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special

The ABC Afterschool Special is an American television anthology series that aired on ABC from 1972 to 1996, usually in the late afternoon on week days. Most of the episodes were dramatic presentations of situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were...

 episode I Want to Go Home opposite John Getz

John Getz

-Personal life:Getz, one of four children, was born in Davenport, Iowa, and grew up in the Mississippi River Valley. He began acting while attending the University of Iowa, where he helped found the Center for New Performing Arts...

, Seth Green

Seth Green

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 and Marge Redmond

Marge Redmond

Marge Redmond is an American actress.-Background/Family:Margery Redmond was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1924. She was the first wife of the late actor Jack Weston, with whom she developed her acting craft at the Cleveland Play House after they married in 1950...

.

That exact same year she was cast in the Linda Feferman directed teen comedy-drama motion picture Seven Minutes in Heaven

Seven Minutes in Heaven (film)

Seven Minutes in Heaven is a 1985 teen film directed by Linda Feferman, starring Jennifer Connelly in one of her first roles.-Plot:Natalie allows her classmate Jeff , who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather , to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip...

. Corman starred opposite actress Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress, who began her career as a child model. She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising, before making her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America...

 as 'Polly Franklin', Connelly's characters intervening and overzealous best friend who is in love with a Major League baseball player named Zoo Knudsen (Billy Wirth

Billy Wirth

William E. "Billy" Wirth is an Americanactor, film producer, and artist, perhaps best known for his role in the 1987 film, The Lost Boys.-Life and career:...

).

In 1987, Corman appeared in the John Hughes-penned teen film Some Kind of Wonderful opposite Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz

Eric Hamilton Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He is widely known for playing the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture...

, Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson is an American film, stage and television actress and director.-Early life:Masterson was born in New York City to writer/director Peter Masterson and actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter Masterson Jr., and Alexandra Masterson, who are both involved in the...

, Lea Thompson

Lea Thompson

Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty McFly's mother, in the Back to the Future trilogy...

, Elias Koteas

Elias Koteas

Elias Koteas is a Canadian actor of film and television, best known for his roles in The Prophecy, Fallen and the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.-Early life:...

, Craig Sheffer

Craig Sheffer

Craig Eric Sheffer is an American film and television actor. He is known for his leading role as Norman Maclean in the film A River Runs Through It and of Keith Scott on the television series One Tree Hill.-Early life:...

, Candace Cameron and Chynna Phillips

Chynna Phillips

Chynna Phillips is an American singer and actress, known for being a member of Wilson Phillips. She is also known for being the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips and the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips, Bijou Phillips, Jeffrey Phillips , Tamerlane...

. Maddie Corman played the character of 'Laura Nelson', the irritating and trouble-making little sister to Keith Nelson (Stoltz).

Her follow up film was the 1990 Renny Harlin

Renny Harlin

Renny Harlin is a Finnish-American film director and producer. He is best known for Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger , The Long Kiss Goodnight and Deep Blue Sea...

 directed comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

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opposite Andrew "Dice" Clay, Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Presley

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, Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton

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, Lauren Holly

Lauren Holly

Lauren Michael Holly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences, as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, and as Jenny Shepard on the TV series NCIS. She was married to comic actor Jim Carrey from 1996 to...

 and Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried is an American actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his trademark comedic persona of speaking in a loud, grating tone of voice. He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin , and...

.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Maddie Corman has frequently appeared on numerous popular American television series. She has made several appearances as various characters on the television drama Law & Order

Law & Order

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and the HBO comedy Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On... is an HBO sketch comedy series created by British-American comedienne Tracey Ullman.In 1993, Ullman returned to television after her hit Fox comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show, was canceled, with two comedy specials for HBO. Tracey Ullman Takes On New York, and Tracey Ullman:...

opposite comedienne Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman

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. She had a recurring role as 'Ruthie' on the short-lived ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 comedy series All American Girl (1994–1995) starring Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

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. She has also appeared small roles in such films as Swingers

Swingers (1996 film)

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(1996), Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioneer living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father in-law's mafia connections...

(1999) and Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Wayne Wang about a hotel maid and a high profile politician who fall in love starring Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, and Natasha Richardson. It is based on a story by John Hughes who is credited using a pseudonym. The original music score...

(2002).

Personal life

Corman wed Jason "Jace" Alexander

Jace Alexander

Jace Alexander is an American television director and former actor.-Biography:Alexander was born Jason Alexander in New York City, the only son of actress Jane Alexander and her first husband Robert, founder and former director of The Living Stage...

, a television and stage director on September 6, 1998, in Carmel, New York

Carmel, New York

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. She counts actor Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz

Eric Hamilton Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He is widely known for playing the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture...

, with whom she appeared in Some Kind of Wonderful, as a personal friend. Jace and Maddie have three kids.

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