- 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.
- Is a practitioner of Taekwondo, Tai Chi Chuan, Kickboxing, & Judo. She also enjoys Belly dancing, Salsa, & Sambo.
- 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).
- 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 (1994) 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 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.
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