This story is part of the October 19 edition of Sunday Life. See all 13 stories .

Many years before she found worldwide fame as an American starring in a very British film, 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral , Andie MacDowell was a New York-based model living in Paris. Having signed with Elite Models not long after leaving school, she found success walking the runways before she ever appeared on screen.

This history with the City of Light goes a long way to explaining why MacDowell, 67, appears to be in her “happy place” when chatting to Sunday Life from the glamour of Paris Fashion Week. For the video call, she is seated in a sparse interview room, but MacDowell looks as comfortable as a local sipping a noisette at a sunny corner cafe. It’s her fourth time walking the L’Oréal P

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