Michael Soren Madsen

Michael Madsen's career has lasted over 30 years, and during this time the actor has performed memorable roles in more than 170 films, including the blockbusters "Kill Bill", "Sin City", "Reservoir Dogs", "The Hateful Eight" and others. He is one of the favorites of cinematographer Quentin Tarantino.

Michael Soren Madsen's biography dates back to September 25, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois. Michael's paternal grandparents are from Denmark, and from his mother he inherited English, German, Irish, Native American and Scottish roots.

Parents Elaine (née Melson) and Calvin Madsen divorced in the 1960s. Mother gave up a career in finance to devote herself to creativity: she worked as a director and screenwriter. Michael's older sister, Cheryl, owns a restaurant in Wisconsin, and the younger Virginia Madsen is also an actress, nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

At the age of 14, an unloved teenager organized a street gang. Young violators of law and order robbed supermarkets, broke into private property, stole cars, tasted drugs and alcohol, and started fights. The exhortations of his parents did not return Michael to the right path, and he ended up in prison.

To while away the time within four walls, Madsen was helped by an unexpectedly revealed craving for poetry. Later, having become a famous actor, he admitted that none of the lines was fiction, each poem was based on a life story:

Released, Michael did not give up stealing, but he did it with caution so as not to fall into the hands of the police. Trying to earn a living, in his youth he worked as a firefighter, car mechanic, painter, ambulance attendant, night watchman at the zoo.

His life was changed by an article in Leisure in Chicago about a play based on John Steinbeck's novel "On Mice and Men," staged at the Steppenwolf Theater. The role of the fearsome Lenny, who foolishly destroys even what is dear to him, was played by John Malkovich.

In Lenny Madsen he saw himself - huge (height 188 cm, weight 86 kg), aggressive, lonely. The American watched the play 5 times, and then decided to confess to John Malkovich in a letter. He suggested that he could very well become an actor:

Malkovich responded to the touching appeal of Michael. He supported the teenager, agreed that acting is a way to become the best version of yourself. From that moment on, Madsen was determined to take a seat in front of the movie cameras.

In 1977, Madsen moved to Los Angeles, California. He attended acting courses, auditioned for various projects, but in the first decade of his career he managed to be remembered only for minor roles in the series "Cagney and Lacey", "The Hitchhiker", "Miami Police: Department of Morals", "Crime Story".

In the 1990s, a breakthrough was outlined in the American filmography. He played the main role of police officer Cliff Burden in the thriller Fatal Instinct, played the saxophonist Morris Poole in the drama Almost Blues. During the same period Madsen met Quentin Tarantino, who was looking for actors for his debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992). The artist got the role of Mr. Blond, or Vic Vega.

Viewers fell in love with Vic Vega, and Tarantino decided to bring the character back in his next major project, Pulp Fiction (1994). Due to busyness in the filming of the western "Wyatt Earp" (1994) Madsen turned down the role. The film features Vic's brother, Vincent Vega, played by John Travolta.

The role of Mr. Blond in the cult American movie gave Madsen a ticket to a big movie. He shared the set with Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Tilly on the set of Getaway (1994), met Al Pacino and Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco (1997), got the lead role in the TV series Revenge Without Limits (1998) ...

The second collaboration between Tarantino and Madsen is Kill Bill (2003) and Kill Bill 2 (2004). The actor played the assassin Budd, Bill's brother, played by David Carradine.

2005 saw the release of Sin City, a screen adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, directed by Robert Rodriguez. Michael Madsen appeared in That Yellow Bastard chapter, sharing the set with Bruce Willis and Jessica Alba.

At the same time, the possibility of combining Vincent and Vic Vega on the screen was discussed.

In 2007, Tarantino said that the film, which he was going to call Double V Vega, would never be filmed due to the age of the actors and the death of both characters.

Unable to fall into the hands of the master of action films, the actor made a film in his honor "Being Michael Madsen" (2007). The title is a reference to the film Being John Malkovich (1999). This is not a biographical chronicle, but a comedy about Madsen hatching a revenge scheme against a tabloid journalist. Despite the high marks of film critics, the American admitted that he regretted filming this film.

The role of Madsen is characters with weapons in their hands, fighters for justice or notorious criminals. Such an actor appeared in the films "Hell's Ride" (2009), "Deadly Insult" (2010) and "The Hateful Eight" (2015), the third work under the direction of Quentin Tarantino.

The first wife of Michael Madsen was Giorgianne LaPierre, the half-sister of the singer Cher. Their marriage was short-lived and coincided with a period when the American was not yet an actor.

In 1991, Madsen married a second time, Janine Bisignano became his chosen one. Probably, the reason for the marriage was pregnancy: in 1990, the couple had their first child, Christian, in 1994, their son Max. The children did not prevent the actor from leaving the family, and in 1995 the couple divorced.

In 1996, Madsen's third and so far the last wife was De Anna Morgan, the former wife of musician Brian Setzer. They have three children: Hudson Lee (born 1995), Calvin Michael (born 1997) and Luke Ray (born 2005). Foreign tabloids claim that the actor also has a daughter, Jessica, but who her mother is is unknown.

Children want to follow in the footsteps of their father and connect their lives with cinema. Christian has already starred in several films, the rest are writing scripts. Madsen is categorically against such a future for his sons, he sees them as doctors or lawyers.

In 2012, Michael Madsen was arrested for the abuse of his son. It was not specified what exactly. The reason for the aggressive behavior of the formerly respectable father was that he, having returned home early, found the teenager smoking marijuana. The actor spent several hours in a pretrial detention cell, after which he was released on bail of $ 100,000.

Madsen talks about his personal life and success in cinema only on Instagram. In August 2018, he published a post in which he urged fans not to trust the allegedly official pages of the actor on other social networks.

Madsen is a fan of Marilyn Monroe, and he posts her photos on Instagram with enviable regularity.

In his free time from filming, the actor is engaged in commercial activities (he produces hot dog sauces under the American Badass brand), participates in charity work, tries himself as a photographer and continues to write poems. His last, eighth, poetry collection, Expecting Rain, came out in 2012.

Madsen continues to work with Quentin Tarantino. They are currently working on the comedy drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The action of the picture unfolds against the background of the activities of Charles Manson and his sect "Family", the murder of actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski. The film will hit big screens in 2019.

Among other high-profile premieres - the action movie "Trading Post", in which Madsen will meet with his movie brother John Travolta, and the horror "Angels Fall", in which the actor will play Balthazar.

1991 - "Fatal Instinct" 1992 - "Almost Blues" 1992 - "Reservoir Dogs" 1993 - "Trouble Ahead" 1995 - "The Man with a Pistol" 1997 - "Donnie Brasco" 1998 - "Revenge Unlimited" 2003 - "Kill Bill ... Movie 1 "2004 -" Kill Bill. Movie 2 "2005 -" Sin City "2008 -" Anger "2009 -" Hell's Ride "2010 -" Deadly Insult "2015 -" The Hateful Eight "2018 -" Until We Meet Again "2019 -" Once Upon a Time in Hollywood "

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