Virginia Madsen
Gender: Female
Born: 11th September 1961 (currently 50 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Smith, Unsolved Mysteries, The Practice, Dawson's Creek, Scoundrels, American Dreams, I Love the '90s: Part Deux, Mussolini: The Untold Story
Movies: A Prairie Home Companion, Candyman, Firewall, Full Disclosure, Highlander II: The Quickening, Sideways, The Astronaut Farmer, The Hot Spot, The Number 23, The Prophecy, Zombie High, American Gun, Creator, Electric Dreams, Dune, Modern Girls, The Haunting, Class, The Florentine, Fire with Fire, Ghosts of Mississippi, Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild, Slam Dance, Diminished Capacity, Crossfire Trail, The Haunting in Connecticut, Heart of Dixie, Brave New Girl, Ambushed, Artworks, Lying in Wait, Just Ask My Children, The Apocalypse Watch, Blue Tiger, After Sex, Caroline at Midnight, Cutlass, Gotham, Father of Invention, Ripple Effect, A Murderous Affair, Victim of Love, Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy?, Wonder Woman, Red Riding Hood, The Rainmaker, Mr. North, Long Gone, Scoundrels: Season 1, I Know a Woman Like That, The Bell Jar, The Last Keepers, Road to Capri, Marriage Drama with Virginia Madsen, Summer at Dog Dave's, Marriage Drama with Virginia Madsen, Hot to Trot, The Number 23, The Prophecy, A Matter of Principle
Virginia G. Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress and documentary film producer. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Two decades later, she had an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways.
Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, producer and playwright who often works for PBS, and Calvin Madsen, a fireman. Madsen's mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen's brother is actor Michael Madsen. Her paternal grandparents were Danish and her mother has Irish and distant Native American ancestry. Madsen is a graduate of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
Her first effort as an actor was as her brother’s assistant in magic shows the two would concoct for their family. She later attended the Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago and Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Of her experience with Liss, she said: "I had wanted to join his class since I was 12. It was well worth the wait because I don't think I could have got that sort of training anywhere else
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