Michael Madsen
Born September 25, 1957 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor, poet, and photographer. He 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Scary Movie 4
★ 5.52006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★ 7.12005
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
★ 7.42019
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
★ 8.12011
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
★ 8.02003
The Hateful Eight
★ 7.82015
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
★ 7.92004
Reservoir Dogs
★ 8.11992
Thelma & Louise
★ 7.61991
Die Another Day
★ 6.02002
WarGames
★ 7.11983
Sin City
★ 7.52005
Species
★ 6.01995
Species II
★ 5.21998
Donnie Brasco
★ 7.51997
Wyatt Earp
★ 6.81994
The Doors
★ 7.11991
Free Willy
★ 6.21993
The Getaway
★ 5.81994
Water Wars
★ 4.62014
Trading Paint
★ 5.42019
Megalodon
★ 5.62018
The Ghost
★ 3.62001
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
★ 5.91995
The Natural
★ 6.91984
Piranhaconda
★ 4.92012
Mulholland Falls
★ 6.01996
Love Addict
★ 5.92018
Lionhead
★ 4.02013
Kill Me Again
★ 6.11989
TV Shows
Bob's Burgers
★ 7.82011
Miami Vice
★ 7.51984
Quantum Leap
★ 8.01989
St. Elsewhere
★ 5.71982
Cagney & Lacey
★ 7.01982
Jake and the Fatman
★ 6.21987
Tour of Duty
★ 8.11987
Celebrity Big Brother
★ 5.02001
Celebrity Ghost Stories
★ 7.32009
The Hitchhiker
★ 6.31983
Crime Story
★ 8.01986
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
★ 9.52004
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
★ 6.12001
Powers
★ 6.62015
War and Remembrance
★ 7.91988
Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side
★ 6.52011
Golden Boy
★ 6.12013
The Outsiders
★ 7.61990
Emigratis
★ 7.02016
Tilt
★ 7.32005
Gabriel's Fire
★ 6.91990
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
★ 7.12015
The Hateful Eight
★ 8.52019
Vengeance Unlimited
★ 8.11998
Master of Photography
★ 2.62016
Our Family Honor
★ 7.71985
Animal Precinct
★ 7.72001
MADtv
★ 7.11995
Big Apple
★ 8.02001
Zulu Gumball
★ 0.02010
More Movies
Arctic Dogs
★ 6.12019
My Boss's Daughter
★ 5.02003
QT8: The First Eight
★ 7.22019
The Florentine
★ 5.71999
BloodRayne
★ 4.12005
Straight Talk
★ 6.01992
Angels Fallen
★ 5.72020
Vigilante Diaries
★ 4.32016
American Night
★ 4.32021
Sins
★ 2.32012
Nishabdham
★ 5.32020
Lumberjack Man
★ 5.02015
Beyond the Law
★ 6.31993
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
★ 8.02004
Green Lantern: First Flight
★ 7.02009
The Stray
★ 4.22000
Renegade
★ 4.82004
Mr. Wonderful
★ 0.02026
No Deposit
★ 3.02015
Hell Ride
★ 5.22008
Vice
★ 4.52008
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
★ 6.72003
A Corpse in Kensington
★ 0.02026
Money for Nothing
★ 5.61993
Amazing Racer
★ 6.02009
I'm in Love with a Church Girl
★ 5.92013
Detour
★ 6.51998
Legend of the White Dragon
★ 0.02026
Boarding Gate
★ 5.02007
Shark Season
★ 4.42020
Racing with the Moon
★ 6.31984
The Sender
★ 4.91998
Every Last One of Them
★ 5.22021
House
★ 4.52008
Pauly Shore Is Dead
★ 4.42003
Frankenstein
★ 5.22004
Blue Tiger
★ 5.31994
Law of Corruption
★ 4.72005
Dead Connection
★ 4.61994
The Winner
★ 4.61996
Hope Lost
★ 4.02015
A Hitman in London
★ 4.22015
Executive Target
★ 4.81997
Arena Wars
★ 5.22024
Diamond Cartel
★ 5.32015
Papa
★ 4.32018
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
★ 6.01996
Red Handed
★ 4.52020
Christmas Crash
★ 4.12009
Blood Red
★ 4.91989
Unbelievable!!!!!
★ 4.22020
Resurrection Road
★ 5.82025
Being Michael Madsen
★ 5.82007
Loosies
★ 5.72012
The Last Drop
★ 4.22006
Chasing Ghosts
★ 5.62005
The Lion of Judah
★ 5.12011
The Killing Jar
★ 5.52010
Afghan Knights
★ 4.12007
Jacked$
★ 5.32004
Eldorado
★ 3.02012
Garlic and Gunpowder
★ 2.82018
Demon Hunters
★ 5.02026
Outlaw Johnny Black
★ 5.42023
Queen of Manhattan
★ 0.02025
The Bleeding
★ 2.62009
Ashley
★ 4.72013
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
★ 5.52022
Voodoo Dawn
★ 4.92000
Not Another Not Another Movie
★ 3.22011
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
★ 4.52008
Terror Trap
★ 4.82010
Special Bulletin
★ 7.01983
Trouble Bound
★ 6.01993
The 5th Execution
★ 3.72011
Last Man Club
★ 6.32016
Beyond the Game
★ 6.22014
A House in the Hills
★ 5.81993
2047: Sights of Death
★ 2.92014
Assault on Hill 400
★ 5.02023
The Maker
★ 5.31997
The End of Innocence
★ 5.01990
Amsterdam Heavy
★ 3.82011
Puppy Love
★ 3.72020
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
★ 7.92003
Red Prophecies
★ 4.02021
Rock, Paper, Scissors
★ 3.82019
Beyond the Trophy
★ 3.52012
Corruption.Gov
★ 2.72010
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
★ 7.02008
The Tomb
★ 4.32009
Lady Psycho Killer
★ 4.22015
The Real Deal
★ 4.12002
Crash and Burn
★ 4.22008
Let the Game Begin
★ 4.72010
You Might As Well Live
★ 4.82009
The Garden Left Behind
★ 5.22020
Supreme Sanction
★ 5.51999
Catherine's Grove
★ 4.41997
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
★ 7.12006
Living & Dying
★ 4.42007
Montana
★ 6.11990
Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird
★ 2.52024
Extreme Honor
★ 4.42001
Burial Ground Massacre
★ 2.42021
Chuck Zito: An American Story
★ 2.02024
The Girl Gets Moe
★ 5.01997
The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence
★ 6.02000
Primal Instinct
★ 6.32002
Damon's Revenge
★ 3.62022
Unfallen
★ 2.72017
Tooth and Nail
★ 4.62007
Vampires Anonymous
★ 5.72003
Luck of the Draw
★ 4.92000
Federal
★ 4.42010
Magi
★ 5.62016
Welcome to Acapulco
★ 5.42019
South of Hope Street
★ 5.52024
Back in the Day
★ 3.02016
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
★ 5.82008
Croc
★ 4.42007
Cosmic Radio
★ 1.52007
Iguana
★ 5.91988
Red Line
★ 6.01995
Buckle Up
★ 2.02023
The Wrong Neighbor
★ 4.62017
The Face is Familiar
★ 2.02009
Assassins Revenge
★ 3.02018
Ballad of the Nightingale
★ 4.21999
The Alternate
★ 3.22000
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine
★ 2.92006
To Kill For
★ 5.01992
Until We Meet Again
★ 4.82022
The Big I Am
★ 4.72010
The Way
★ 4.02009
Ultimate Target
★ 6.82000
Last Hour
★ 4.22008
Strength and Honour
★ 5.02007
No Bad Days
★ 3.22008
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
★ 4.02006
Hoboken Hollow
★ 3.82006
All In
★ 4.52006
Gasoline
★ 6.02017
Papertrail
★ 4.71998
Michael Jackson: A Life in Music
★ 0.02026
45 R.P.M.
★ 6.22008
Trader Games
★ 4.32010
Bikini Inception
★ 5.32015
L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
★ 5.92001
Machine
★ 3.92007
Clear Lake, WI
★ 2.42009
Prepare to Die
★ 5.12024
Break
★ 4.02009
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
★ 7.82006
Infected
★ 3.32013
Man with a Gun
★ 4.61995
Deep Winter
★ 3.82009
Sacrifice
★ 4.92000
Serbian Scars
★ 3.12009
Concessions
★ 10.02025
Necronomicon
★ 2.02023
Garbage
★ 4.82013
Rough Draft
★ 4.61998
2 Graves in the Desert
★ 3.82020
Gloves of Stone
★ 4.32009
Magic Boys
★ 2.32012
L.A. Dicks
★ 1.02007
42K
★ 6.32001
Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha
★ 5.22024
The Portal
★ 4.42010
Outrage: Born in Terror
★ 3.52009
Almost Blue
★ 7.11993
Road of No Return
★ 5.92009
The Thief & the Stripper
★ 4.52002
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
★ 0.02006
DinoGator
★ 5.02024
Dirty Fears
★ 6.02020
Flipped
★ 5.52015
ICE Agent
★ 3.82013
Primitiva
★ 1.52019
Along for the Ride
★ 7.02016
Non Escludo Il Ritorno
★ 3.62014
Turn Around Jake
★ 5.02014
Max Dagan
★ 0.02024
The Killing Time
★ 5.01987
Hangover in Death Valley
★ 1.02018
Grindhouse Nightmares
★ 4.22018
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
★ 5.71994
Inside Edge
★ 5.11993
Monster Mash
★ 4.12024
Blood Behind Us
★ 0.02026
The Lost Tree
★ 5.32015
The Brazen Bull
★ 4.32010
The Craft of Dirty Harry
★ 6.02008
Canes
★ 4.32006
Outlaw
★ 5.32001
The Price of Air
★ 5.52000
Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
★ 1.42020
Devil's Domain
★ 3.22017
Cole Younger & The Black Train
★ 1.02012
The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'
★ 8.82004
Baby Snatcher
★ 6.71992
Alien Battlefield
★ 0.02013
Sinatra! Eternity
★ 0.02025
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
★ 3.42013
The Broken Key
★ 3.22017
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
★ 8.02008
Dirty Dealing
★ 3.32018
Death in the Desert
★ 3.42015
Lost in the Woods
★ 3.42009
Incarnation
★ 3.92022
Nomad the Beginning
★ 2.92013
The Wraith Within
★ 4.72022
Choke
★ 3.92001
Bad Guys
★ 4.82000
Waking Karma
★ 3.72023
Express 'Moscow-Russia'
★ 5.22014
The Ninth Cloud
★ 5.52014
The Lurking Fear
★ 5.22023
The First Circle
★ 0.0
Death Count
★ 3.02022
Prince of the City
★ 3.02012
Flat Out
★ 6.01999
Surface to Air
★ 7.21997
Saturday at the Starlight
★ 0.0
Kidnapped in Romania
★ 2.92016
Christmas Thieves
★ 4.62021
Pressure Point
★ 5.42001
Diner
★ 7.31983
Eyes Front
★ 1.02008
Along the Roadside
★ 6.42013
Final Wager
★ 2.02024
High Noon
★ 5.72000
Sacred Blood
★ 4.32015
Ten Million Throwaways
★ 2.02021
Cookbook for Southern Housewives
★ 0.0
Against All Hope
★ 6.81982
Killer's Freedom
★ 3.52008
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
★ 7.42005
Playing with Stars
★ 0.02021
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
★ 5.82016
Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny
★ 2.92012
Q-4: Dream Corporation
★ 2.02018
Hired Gun
★ 3.52009
Season of Change
★ 4.61994
Dirty Little Trick
★ 5.62011
Ava
★ 0.0
Serpent in the Bottle
★ 2.42020
Gabrielle
★ 1.02013
Creepshow Raw: Insomnia
★ 3.02009
Shadows in the Storm
★ 4.61988
Batman: Dying Is Easy
★ 7.02021
Fall
★ 5.52001
Run Raven Run
★ 6.02021
Spirit Riser
★ 0.02024
Born2Race
★ 2.52019
Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge
★ 0.02024
Spatss!
★ 0.02018
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
★ 0.02006
The Forest
★ 3.82011
Talons
★ 5.02016
Six Days in Paradise
★ 0.02010
Terrible Angels
★ 5.52013
A Cold Day in Hell
★ 3.42011
The Things We Carry
★ 0.02025