Michael Søren Madsen (born September 25, 1957) is a Danish-American actor, poet, and photographer. He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin City. Madsen is also credited with voice work in several video games, including Grand Theft Auto III, True Crime: Streets of L.A. and DRIV3R.

Early life

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Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, television producer, and playwright who often works for PBS, and Calvin Madsen, a firefighter. Madsen's mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen's paternal grandparents were Danish and his mother has Irish and Native American ancestry. His sister is actress Virginia Madsen, and he also has an older sister, Cheri.

Madsen's acting career began at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he served as an apprentice under actor John Malkovich.

Career

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In 1982, Madsen was cast by Edward McDougal for the lead in a small independent film, Against All Hope, his first movie. He then played a small role in the studio picture WarGames in 1983. That same year, he appeared in a bit part in Edward Zwick's 1983 television movie Special Bulletin. Soon after, Madsen was cast as a psychopathic gunman who took Mary Beth hostage in the Cagney and Lacey episode "Heat", which aired October 22, 1984. He moved to Los Angeles and appeared in other films, including as arrogant baseball player Bump Bailey in The Natural (1984), a deranged killer in Kill Me Again (1989) and as the tough but touching boyfriend of Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise (1991).

Then came a memorable role as the razor-wielding, sadistic ex-con and jewel thief "Mr. Blonde" in the bloody Quentin Tarantino crime story Reservoir Dogs. The film brought Madsen attention among critics and fans. During a scene in which Madsen's psychopathic character Mr. Blonde tortures a police officer, actor Kirk Baltz ad-libbed a line about being a father to a young child. Madsen, who himself had just become a father, was so upset that he found it very difficult to finish the scene. On some copies of the film's DVD, as Baltz completes the line, a voice can be heard off-screen saying "Oh, no, no ..." The ad-lib exacerbated Madsen's original reluctance to do the scene, due to his real-life aversion to violence.

Subsequently, Madsen was cast in a variety of major studio films, including Free Willy, Mulholland Falls, Wyatt Earp, Species and with Johnny Depp and Al Pacino in the critically acclaimed Donnie Brasco.

Since the mid 1990s, Madsen has appeared more often in lower-budget films released directly to video or television. Notable exceptions include his featured role in Tarantino's Kill Bill, in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day and in the film version of the Frank Miller graphic novel Sin City. He appeared in Scary Movie 4 in 2006 parodying Tim Robbins's character from War of the Worlds. He was also in the film 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out in 2003. In 2008 he had a starring role as "The Gent" in Quentin Tarantino's "HELL RIDE" that was written & Directed by Larry Bishop.

Madsen has been in a few television series, including the short-lived Vengeance Unlimited and as "Don Everest" in the poker-themed ESPN series Tilt. He was in Michael Jackson's 2001 music video "You Rock My World" and has provided voice work for several video games, including Grand Theft Auto III, True Crime: Streets of L.A. and DRIV3R. He provided voice work for the movie version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Maugrim the wolf, captain of the White Witch's secret police.

He also provides narration for Animal Planet and is heard in the PlayStation 2 game Yakuza, where he voices the role of Futo Shimano, the violent and unforgiving leader of a Yakuza family. Madsen played Sam Spade in Yuri Rasovsky's Grammy-nominated sonic dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, which also features Sandra Oh and Edward Herrmann.

In August 2008, Madsen co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.

Madsen went to Mexico City to co-star in boxing film The Kid: Chamaco with Martin Sheen and Kirk Harris for director Miguel Necoechea in 2009.

Madsen is also expected to reprise his role as Bob in Sin City 2, which is in pre-production and has a release date of 2012. Fellow cast members include Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, and Clive Owen.

The actor appeared in Every Time I Die's music video "Kill The Music" and recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging reading of screenplays by Tarantino.

In September 2009, he was filming the Magic Boys in Szeged, Hungary with Vinnie Jones. The film was never completed, due to the arrest in December 2010 of producer Gabor Koltai by Hungarian authorities on charges of fraud.

Madsen guest-starred in the final season of 24 in April 2010. He played Jim Ricker, an old friend of main character Jack Bauer.

His latest released film, Let The Game Begin, opened in May 2010. The film also features Adam Rodriguez and Stephen Baldwin. Madsen played the lead in the independent horror film Infected.

He is currently one of the stars of the western thriller The Sorrow with Kirk Harris, John Savage, newcomer Ryan Ballance and Yvonne Delarosa.

Personal life

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Madsen's first marriage was to actress Georganne LaPiere, the half sister of Cher. He remarried, to Jeannine Bisignano, with whom he has two sons. Close friend Harvey Keitel is the godfather of Madsen's son Max. Since 1996, he has been married to Deanna Morgan, who was previously married to musician Brian Setzer of Stray Cats fame. They have 3 sons together.

The actor lived in a Malibu house that once belonged to Keith Moon, the original drummer of The Who, and it was at this house on December 26, 2004 that David Carradine and his last wife, Annie, were married by their longtime friend and attorney, Vicki Roberts.

In 2002 he was presented an award for his work with the Shriners Hospital For Children, and he gave his casting director friend Bruno Rosato a Porsche 928. In September 2009, Madsen announced his participation in the Love Ride 26 to help raise money for local charities and those less fortunate. Love Ride began in 1981 and has been growing ever since including many celebrities from Malcolm Forbes to Peter Fonda to Larry Hagman with musical entertainment from Robbie Krieger, David Crosby, Eric Burdon, Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Dwight Yoakam, the Doobie Brothers, Sammy Hagar and others. The event was to have taken place on October 25, 2009 but was canceled two weeks before the event due to poor ticket sales and a steep decline in sponsorship and vendor support.

Madsen has done several films with Daryl Hannah, these include Kill Bill, Shannon's Rainbow, Vice, and the upcoming films Eldorado as well as the film Garbage in which they play friends called Daryl and Michael. Hannah took part in the fictional documentary Being Michael Madsen.

Poetry

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Madsen has been writing poetry for over 10 years. Madsen began his writing on match books, napkins and hotel stationery in between his time working on movie sets and traveling around the world. In 2005, 13 Hands Publications, founded by Michael P. Naughton, compiled all of his poetry and released The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen, Vol I: 1995–2005. The book has been an international success and is the only authorized compilation of Madsen's poetry. The original books released were "Beer, Blood and Ashes" (1995), "Eat The Worm" (1995), "Burning in Paradise" (1998), and the now out-of-print "A Blessing of the Hounds" (2002), "46 Down; A Book of Dreams and Other Ramblings" (2004) and "When Pets Kill" (2005).

Madsen's friend and fellow actor Dennis Hopper described his poetry as a throwback to the Beat Generation: "I like him better than Kerouac: raunchier, more poignant, he's got street language, images I can relate to, blows my mind with his drifts of gut-wrenching riffs; this actor is a poet and he is cool, of course, he is Michael Madsen". Madsen notes his influences for his style of poetry as being Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski. His latest book of poetry, entitled American Badass was released on Madsen's birthday, September 25, 2009. Madsen dedicated the book to the memory of his friend and Kill Bill co-star David Carradine.

In 2008, Madsen was invited and appeared in Norway for the Norwegian translation and release of Burning In Paradise. In November 2010 he was the Guest of Honor for his poetry at the Crossing Border Festival at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Photography

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Madsen is also an accomplished photographer. In 2006, he released his first book of photography entitled: Signs of Life, published by 13 Hands Publications, which also contains some new selections of his poetry. He dedicated this book to the memory of his good friend and fellow actor Chris Penn, who starred with Madsen in Reservoir Dogs. He currently has limited edition prints of his photography available at Celebrities gallery in Maui, Hawaii.

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Filmography

1982.  Against All Hope
1983.  Special Bulletin (TV movie)
1983.  WarGames
1983.  Diner (TV short)
1984.  Racing with the Moon
1984.  The Natural
1987.  The Killing Time
1988.  Iguana
1988.  Shadows in the Storm
1989.  Blood Red
1989.  Kill Me Again
1990.  Montana (TV movie)
1990.  The End of Innocence
1991.  The Doors
1991.  Thelma & Louise
1992.  Reservoir Dogs
1992.  Straight Talk
1992.  Baby Snatcher (TV movie)
1992.  Fatal Instinct
1992.  Inside Edge
1993.  Trouble Bound
1993.  Beyond the Law
1993.  Free Willy
1993.  Money for Nothing
1993.  A House in the Hills
1994.  Season of Change
1994.  The Getaway
1994.  Blue Tiger
1994.  Dead Connection
1994.  Wyatt Earp
1995.  Species
1995.  Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995.  Man with a Gun
1995.  Red Line (video)
1996.  Mulholland Falls
1996.  Almost Blue
1996.  The Winner
1996.  The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
1997.  Donnie Brasco
1997.  Catherine's Grove
1997.  The Maker
1997.  The Girl Gets Moe
1997.  Executive Target
1998.  Rough Draft
1998.  Papertrail
1998.  Surface to Air
1998.  Species II
1998.  The Sender
1998.  Fait Accompli
1998.  Detour (video)
1999.  Supreme Sanction (TV movie)
1999.  The Florentine
1999.  Ballad of the Nightingale
1999.  Flat Out
2000.  Ultimate Target
2000.  Bad Guys
2000.  The Stray
2000.  The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence (TV movie)
2000.  Luck of the Draw
2000.  The Alternate
2000.  Sacrifice (TV movie)
2000.  High Noon (TV movie)
2000.  The Price of Air
2000.  The Thief & the Stripper
2001.  Outlaw
2001.  Fall: The Price of Silence
2001.  The Ghost
2001.  Choke
2001.  Pressure Point
2001.  You Rock My World (TV short)
2001.  L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve
2001.  42K
2001.  Extreme Honor
2002.  Welcome to America
2002.  Love.com
2002.  Die Another Day
2002.  The Real Deal
2003.  Where's Angelo? (short)
2003.  44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (TV movie)
2003.  My Boss's Daughter
2003.  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003.  Vampires Anonymous
2004.  Renegade
2004.  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004.  Frankenstein (TV movie)
2004.  Jacked$
2005.  Sin City
2005.  Chasing Ghosts
2005.  L.A. Dicks
2005.  Law of Corruption
2005.  BloodRayne
2005.  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Maugrim (voice)
2006.  The Last Drop
2006.  Hoboken Hollow
2006.  All In
2006.  Scary Movie 4
2006.  Canes
2006.  UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine
2007.  Cosmic Radio
2007.  Living & Dying
2007.  Machine
2007.  Boarding Gate
2007.  Strength and Honour
2007.  Afghan Knights
2007.  Croc (TV movie)
2007.  Tooth & Nail
2008.  Killer's Freedom
2008.  Vice
2008.  House
2008.  Hell Ride
2008.  Eyes Front (video)
2008.  Crash and Burn (TV movie)
2008.  Last Hour
2008.  Deep Winter
2008.  Break
2008.  No Bad Days
2008.  45 R.P.M.
2009.  Lost in the Woods
2009.  Clear Lake, WI
2009.  Shannon's Rainbow
2009.  Serbian Scars
2009.  Dead Man Running (video)
2009.  You Might as Well Live
2009.  Road of No Return
2009.  A Way with Murder
2009.  Hired Gun
2009.  The Tomb
2009.  The Way
2009.  Outrage
2009.  Green Lantern: First Flight (video)
2009.  The Kid: Chamaco
2009.  The Bleeding
2009.  Christmas Crash (video)
2010.  Six Days in Paradise
2010.  Corruption.Gov
2010.  The Killing Jar
2010.  Money to Burn
2010.  The Portal
2010.  Let the Game Begin
2010.  The Big I Am
2010.  The 5th Execution
2010.  Trader Games
2010.  Terror Trap
2010.  Federal
2010.  Now Here
2010.  The Brazen Bull
2011.  Not Another Not Another Movie
2011.  Joshua Tree
2011.  The Forest
2011.  Amsterdam Heavy (video)
2011.  The Lion of Judah
2011.  A Cold Day in Hell
2011.  Dirty Little Trick
2011.  Piranhaconda (TV movie)
2011.  Loosies
2011.  Eldorado
2011.  Infected
2011.  I'm in Love with a Church Girl
2011.  Men Don't Lie
2011.  Road Raiders
2011.  Egill: The Last Pagan
2011.  Don't Pass Me By
2011.  Magic Boys
2012.  Garbage
2012.  Refuge from the Storm
2012.  Lionhead
2012.  The Sorrow
2012.  Sprawl
2011.  The Witching Hour
2011.  Trophy
2013.  Art's Demise
2013.  Paradi$e

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Majkl Medsen u britanskom Velikom bratu

Proslavljeni 54-godišnji glumac Majkl Medsen navodno bi trebalo da uđe u kuću Velikog brata koji počinje da se emituje u Britaniji sledećeg meseca.



Kontroverzna zvezda bi mogla da prodrma i zagreje atmosferu u kući poznatih, prema mišljenju producenata.

- On ima veoma težak karakter, i to može da bude veoma problematično. Ipak, u kući će biti i njegovi poznati prijatelji Vini Džons i Stiven Boldvin, tako da se nadam da će uz njih biti smireniji - rekao je Majklov blizak prijatelj.

Pored brojnih poznatih ličnosti koji će ući u kuću, producenti planiraju i da svakodnevno uvode po jednu poznatu ličnosti, koja će davati dnevne zadatke ukućanima.

Izvor: Blic

Glumac uhapšen zbog nasilja nad sinom

Holivudski glumac Majkl Medsen uhapšen je pod sumnjom okrutnog ponašanja nakon svađe sa maloletnim sinom kog je uhvatio da puši marihuanu.

Glumac koji je najpoznatiji po ulogama u filmovima Kventina Tarantina "Kill Bill" i "Ulični psi", Majkl Medsen, zadržan je u pritvoru u sredu, uz kauciju od 100.000 dolara.

Medsen se svađao sa sinom u njihovom domu u Malibuu, a komšije su pozvale policiju zbog buke, prenosi Blic. Kada je policija stigla, primetili su nekoliko povreda na dečaku.

U izveštaju se navodi i kako je glumac bio pod dejstvom alkohola, i da se sve dogodilo malo pre 16 časova. Medsen ima pet sinova, i trenutno nije poznato koji sin je umešan u incident.

- Majkl ga je uhavtio kako puši marihuanu, zato su počeli da se svađaju. Ovo je porodična stvar, i Majkl je zamolio da se poštuje njegova privatnost, rekao je glumčev advokat u obraćanju medijima.

Izvor: S media