Andie MacDowell to Star in ABC Soap ‘Model Woman’

Following an extensive casting search, ABC has found its Eileen Ford. Andie MacDowell has been tapped to star in the network’s drama pilot Model Woman, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The pilot is a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey’s book, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty. Set in the late 1970s during the notorious Model Wars, the show is centered on Bertie Geiss (MacDowell) — a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency. Read More…