Michael Madsen

Highest Rated: 100% Into Eternity (2011)

Lowest Rated: 0% Trading Paint (2019)

Birthday: Sep 25, 1958

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Michael Madsen, who admits to being more interested in delivering a good performance than the perks of fame, formerly worked as a gas station attendant in his hometown of Chicago, IL. The older brother of actress Virginia Madsen, Michael's first acting experience took place inside of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, where he studied under the direction of fellow actor John Malkovich. This stage training provided him with the background needed to land a host of small roles, beginning with a bit part in the 1983 film WarGames. After relocating to Los Angeles, Madsen made several television and film appearances, including NBC's Emmy-winning Special Bulletin (1983), and The Natural (1984), director Barry Levinson's celebrated sports drama. Madsen continued to build credibility, gradually going on to land larger parts. Though his profile was raised substantially after appearing in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise, it was his 1989 performance as a psychotic killer in John Dahl's Kill Me Again that caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino, who would later give Madsen his true breakthrough opportunity in 1992's Reservoir Dogs. This ear-splitting performance earned Madsen critical acclaim, as well as further cementing his reputation for playing psychopathic murderers. Sure enough, Madsen would go on to perform in several decidedly evil roles. From the kitten-loving sociopath in The Getaway (1994), to mafia tough guy Sonny Black in Donnie Brasco, Madsen proved himself more than capable of playing a good bad guy. Rather than allowing himself to be typecast, however, Madsen readily accepted the role of a loving foster parent in Free Willy (1993), a seasoned alien assassin in Species (1995), and CIA Agent Damon Falco in director Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (2002). Over the course of the next decade, however, the veteran actor largely stuck to his tough-guy image, though his reflective role in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films displayed a sense of depth that most filmmakers fail to coax out of him.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
91%	The Garden Left Behind	Kevin	—	2020
No Score Yet	2 Graves in the Desert	Vince	—	2020
12%	Arctic Dogs	Actor	—	2019
91%	QT8: The First Eight	Actor	—	2019
0%	Trading Paint	Linsky	—	2019
No Score Yet	Welcome to Acapulco	Hyde	—	2019
No Score Yet	The Key	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Gloves of Stone	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Megalodon	Admiral King	—	2018
No Score Yet	Christian Audigier the VIF	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	Papa	Ivan	—	2018
No Score Yet	Rock, Paper, Scissors	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	Assassin's Revenge	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	The Lost Tree	John	—	2017
No Score Yet	Devil's Domain	Bill	—	2017
No Score Yet	The Wrong Neighbor	Coach Jaworski	—	2017
No Score Yet	Grindhouse Nightmares	Actor	—	2017
No Score Yet	Unfallen	General McCallister	—	2017
No Score Yet	Diamond Cartel	Actor	—	2017
14%	Vigilante Diaries	Moreau	—	2016
No Score Yet	Back In The Day	Enzo DeVino	—	2016
No Score Yet	The Natural: The Best There Ever Was	Actor	—	2016
74%	The Hateful Eight	Joe Gage	$54.2M	2015
No Score Yet	Lumberjack Man	Dr. Peter Shirtcliff	—	2015
No Score Yet	No Deposit	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Along The Roadside	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Sacred Blood	Det. Brennan	—	2015
No Score Yet	Flipped	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	The Witching Hour	The Detective	—	2015
No Score Yet	Kidnapped in Romania	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Blood Rush	Casey	—	2015
No Score Yet	Hope Lost	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Death in the Desert	Executive Producer Ray Easler	—	2015
No Score Yet	Skin Traffik (A Hitman in London)	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Magi	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Dirty Dealing 3D	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Turnaround Jake	Russell O'Malley	—	2014
No Score Yet	Skoryy 'Moskva-Rossiya'	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	2047 - Sights of Death	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Ninth Cloud	Actor	—	2014
10%	I'm In Love With A Church Girl	Frank Harris	$2.4M	2013
No Score Yet	Terrible Angels	Detective Ben Nolan	—	2013
No Score Yet	Ashley	Bill	—	2013
No Score Yet	ICE Agent	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Garbage	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Refuge From The Storm	Steve Grecco	—	2013
No Score Yet	Lionhead	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	The Sorrow (A Sierra Nevada Gunfight)	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Desperate Endeavors	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Beyond The Trophy	Cole Lambert	—	2012
22%	Loosies	Lt. Nick Sullivan	$3.8k	2012
No Score Yet	The Portal	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Sins Expiation	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Infected	Louis Hartley	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Forest	Actor	—	2011
0%	The Lion of Judah	Boss	—	2011
No Score Yet	The Bleeding	Reverend Roy	—	2011
100%	Into Eternity	Director	$33.5k	2011
No Score Yet	The 5th Execution (Pyataya kazn)	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Eldorado	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Piranhaconda	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Amsterdam Heavy	Martin Keele	—	2011
No Score Yet	Dirty Little Trick	Vito	—	2011
No Score Yet	A Cold Day In Hell	Stallings	—	2011
No Score Yet	Terror Trap	Carter	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Kid: Chamaco	Willie	—	2010
No Score Yet	Let the Game Begin	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Big I Am	Martell	—	2010
0%	The Killing Jar	Executive Producer Doe	—	2010
No Score Yet	Krach	William	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Story of Bonnie and Clyde	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Brazen Bull	The Man Producer	—	2010
No Score Yet	Corruption.Gov	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Six Days In Paradise	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Not Another Not Another Movie	Les	—	2009
No Score Yet	Serbian Scars	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Outrage: Born In Terror	Farragut	—	2009
50%	Green Lantern: First Flight	Kilowog	—	2009
67%	You Might as Well Live	Clinton Manitoba	—	2009
No Score Yet	Break	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Shannon's Rainbow	Dave	—	2009
No Score Yet	Hired Gun	Dan Moeller	—	2009
No Score Yet	Starz Inside	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Road of No Return	Producer J. Marcone	—	2009
No Score Yet	Christmas Crash	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Buttermilk Sky	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Clear Lake WI	Actor	—	2009
0%	House	Tin Man	$0.6M	2008
No Score Yet	45 R.P.M.	Major Baxter	—	2008
10%	Hell Ride	The Gent	$0.2M	2008
No Score Yet	Deep Winter	Dean	—	2008
29%	Vice	Max Walker Executive Producer	—	2008
No Score Yet	Crash and Burn	Crime Boss	—	2008
32%	Boarding Gate	Miles	—	2008
No Score Yet	Los Angeles	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	The Portal	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	The Tomb	George	—	2008
No Score Yet	Cosmic Radio	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	No Bad Days	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Lost Treasure of the Maya	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Eyes Front	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Being Michael Madsen	Actor Producer	—	2007
33%	Tooth and Nail	Jackal Executive Producer	—	2007
No Score Yet	All In	Seal	—	2007
No Score Yet	Croc	Croc Hawkins	—	2007
6%	Strength and Honour	Sean Kelleher	$52.4k	2007
No Score Yet	Afghan Knights	Cooper	—	2007
No Score Yet	Living & Dying	Agent Lind	—	2007
No Score Yet	UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine	Major Blevins	—	2006
No Score Yet	Machine	Ray	—	2006
No Score Yet	The Last Drop	Col J.T. Colt	—	2006
35%	Scary Movie 4	Oliver	$90.7M	2006
4%	BloodRayne	Vladimir	$1.6M	2006
No Score Yet	Canes	Guillermo List	—	2006
No Score Yet	Last Hour	Monk	—	2006
No Score Yet	All In	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	L.A. Dicks	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Chasing Ghosts	Kevin Harrison	—	2005
77%	Sin City	Bob	—	2005
No Score Yet	Jacked$	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Velvet Revolution	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Hoboken Hollow	J.T. Goldman	—	2005
No Score Yet	Firedog	Actor	—	2005
84%	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Budd	—	2004
22%	Renegade	Wallace Sebastian Blount	—	2004
No Score Yet	Frankenstein	Det. Harker	—	2004
85%	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Budd/SidewinderBudd	—	2003
8%	My Boss's Daughter	T.J.	—	2003
No Score Yet	44 Minutes	Detective Frank McGregor	—	2003
56%	Die Another Day	Damian Falco	$160.3M	2002
No Score Yet	Pressure Point	Jed Griffin	—	2002
No Score Yet	The Real Deal	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Primal Instinct	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Extreme Honor	Sparks	—	2001
No Score Yet	L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve	Lt. Alexander	—	2001
No Score Yet	Choke	Will	—	2001
No Score Yet	Vampires Anonymous	Vic's Sponsor	—	2000
50%	High Noon	Frank Miller	—	2000
No Score Yet	Sacrifice	Tyler Pierce	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Ghost	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Stray	Ben	—	2000
No Score Yet	Luck of the Draw	Zippo	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence	Joe	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Alternate	Agent Briggs	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Primal Instinct	Russ	—	2000
No Score Yet	42K	Narrator	—	2000
0%	The Price of Air	Mr. Ball	—	2000
No Score Yet	Supreme Sanction	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Florentine	Whitey	—	1999
No Score Yet	Fait Accompli	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Trail of a Serial Killer	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Detour	Burl Rogers	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Maker	Skarney	—	1998
9%	Species II	Press	—	1998
No Score Yet	Executive Target	Nick James	—	1998
No Score Yet	Final Reckoning	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Strip 'N' Run	Jimmy D.	—	1998
17%	The Winner	Wolf	—	1997
No Score Yet	Diary of a Serial Killer	Det. Haynes	—	1997
No Score Yet	Catherine's Grove	Joe Mason	—	1997
88%	Donnie Brasco	Sonny Black	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Sal	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Girl Gets Moe	Donnelly	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Sender	Dalla Grayson	—	1997
No Score Yet	Surface to Air	Gunnery Sgt. Zach Massin	—	1997
31%	Mulholland Falls	Eddie Hall	—	1996
No Score Yet	Red Line	Mr. Lawrence	—	1995
50%	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Glen Greenwood	—	1995
43%	Species	Press Lennox	—	1995
No Score Yet	Blue Tiger	Gun salesman (uncreditted)	—	1995
46%	Wyatt Earp	Virgil Earp	—	1994
No Score Yet	Man with a Gun	John	—	1994
30%	The Getaway	Rudy Travis	—	1994
No Score Yet	Dead Connection	Det. Matt Dickson	—	1994
20%	Money for Nothing	Det. Laurenzi	—	1993
No Score Yet	Almost Blue	Morris Poole	—	1993
71%	Free Willy	Glen Greenwood	—	1993
No Score Yet	A House in the Hills	Mickey	—	1993
No Score Yet	Baby Snatcher	Cal Hudson	—	1992
42%	Straight Talk	Steve Labell	—	1992
92%	Reservoir Dogs	Mr. Blonde	—	1992
No Score Yet	Trouble Bound	Harry Talbot	—	1992
No Score Yet	Beyond the Law	Blood	—	1992
No Score Yet	To Kill For	Cliff Burden	—	1992
85%	Thelma & Louise	Jimmy	—	1991
57%	The Doors	Tom Baker	—	1991
No Score Yet	The End of Innocence	Earl	—	1990
No Score Yet	Le Dernier Cow-Boy	Pierce	—	1990
No Score Yet	Kill Me Again	Vince Miller	—	1989
No Score Yet	Blood Red	Enziio	—	1988
No Score Yet	Iguana	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Shadows in the Storm	Earl	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Killing Time	Stu	—	1987
82%	The Natural	Bump Bailey	—	1984
60%	Racing With the Moon	Frank	—	1984
93%	WarGames (War Games)	Steve	—	1983
No Score Yet	Special Bulletin	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	Against All Hope	Cecil Moe	—	1982

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
48%	Powers 2015-2016	SuperShock	2016 2015
75%	Big Time in Hollywood, FL 2015	Harvey Scoles	2015
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Hawaii Five-0 2010-2020	Roy Parrish	2014
58%	Golden Boy 2013	Walter Clark Sr.	2013
No Score Yet	Blue Bloods 2010	Benjamin Walker	2012
21%	The Mob Doctor 2012-2013	Russell King	2012
87%	24 2001-2014	Jim Ricker	2010
No Score Yet	CSI: Miami 2002-2012	Coop Daly	2010
No Score Yet	Cribs 2000	Appearing	2006
15%	Vengeance Unlimited 1998-1999	Mr. Chapel	1999 1998
No Score Yet	Quantum Leap 1989-1993	Blue	1989
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988	Mike	1983
No Score Yet	War and Remembrance 1988-1989	Lt. `Foof' Turhall

Quotes from Michael Madsen's Characters

John "The Hangman" Ruth:	No offense, cowboy-fella, just gettin' your attention.
Joe Gage:	Yeah well, you got it.
John "The Hangman" Ruth:	Whatchyu writin' friend?
Joe Gage:	The only thing I'm qualified to write about.
John "The Hangman" Ruth:	What's that?
Joe Gage:	My life story.
John "The Hangman" Ruth:	You're writing your life story..?
Joe Gage:	You bet I am.
John "The Hangman" Ruth:	Am I init?
Joe Gage:	....you just entered it.

Detective Ben Nolan:

We are all angels....we just do terrible things!

Jimmy:	I just want you to be happy.
Louise Sawyer:	I am happy, sweetie. Happy as I can be.

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Are you gonna bark all day, lil' doggie, or are you gonna bite?

Mr. Brown:	Let me tell you what "Like a Virgin" is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks.
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	No, no. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable. She's been fucked over a few times. Then she meets some guy who's really sensitive...
Mr. Brown:	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... Time out Greenbay. Tell that fucking bullshit to the tourists.
Joe Cabot:	Toby... Who the fuck is Toby? Toby...
Mr. Brown:	"Like a Virgin" is not about this sensitive girl who meets a nice fella. That's what "True Blue" is about, now, granted, no argument about that.
Mr. Orange/Freddy:	Which one is "True Blue"?
Nice Guy Eddie:	"True Blue" was a big ass hit for Madonna. I don't even follow this Tops In Pops shit, and I've at least heard of "True Blue".
Mr. Orange/Freddy:	Look, asshole, I didn't say I ain't heard of it. All I asked was how does it go? Excuse me for not being the world's biggest Madonna fan.
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Personally, I can do without her.
Mr. Blue:	I like her early stuff. You know, "Lucky Star", "Borderline" - but once she got into her "Papa Don't Preach" phase, I don't know, I tuned out.
Mr. Brown:	Hey, you guys are making me lose my... train of thought here. I was saying something, what was it?
Joe Cabot:	Oh, Toby was this Chinese girl, what was her last name?
Mr. White/Larry:	What's that?
Joe Cabot:	I found this old address book in a jacket I ain't worn in a coon's age. What was that name?
Mr. Brown:	What the fuck was I talking about?
Mr. Pink:	You said "True Blue" was about a nice girl, a sensitive girl who meets a nice guy, and that "Like a Virgin" was a metaphor for big dicks.
Mr. Brown:	Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue:	How many dicks is that?
Mr. White/Larry:	A lot.
Mr. Brown:	Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape", he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain.
Joe Cabot:	Chew? Toby Chew?
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence - "Like a Virgin".
Joe Cabot:	Wong?

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:

Eddie, if you keep talkin' like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like a bitch.

Emil Matasarenu:	I surrender...
Frank McGregor:	Shoot to kill!!!!
Frank McGregor:	Shoot to kill!

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Are You Going To Bark All Day Little Buddy?
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:

Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

Budd:

That woman deserves her revenge...and we deserve to die.

Budd:	I don't dodge guilt, and I don't jew out of paying my comeuppance.
Bill:	Can't we just forget the past?
Budd:	That woman deserves her revenge... And we deserve to die. (laughs) But, then again, so does she. So I guess we'll just see...Wont we?
Budd:	That woman deserves her revenge... And we deserve to die. [laughs] But, then again, so does she. So I guess we'll just see...Wont we?

Budd:	You tellin' me she cut her way through 88 bodyguards 'fore she got to O'Ren?
Bill:	Nah, there really wasn't 88 of them, they just called themselves "The Crazy 88"
Bill:	Nah, there really wasn't 88 of them, they just called themselves 'The Crazy 88'.
Budd:	How come?
Bill:	I don't know.. I guess they thought it sounded kinda cool.

Bump Bailey:	[after failing to catch a fly ball] I lost it in the sun.
Pop Fisher:	[looks up at the cloudy sky] Blinding.

Mr. Pink:	"I don't tip, I don't believe in it. She don't make enough money she can quit. I don't tip because society says I have to, I'll tip if someone really puts forth the effort. Tipping automatically is for the birds....She only filled my coffee cup 3 times, I want it filled 6 times."
Mr. Pink:	I don't tip, I don't believe in it. She don't make enough money she can quit. I don't tip because society says I have to, I'll tip if someone really puts forth the effort. Tipping automatically is for the birds....She only filled my coffee cup 3 times, I want it filled 6 times.
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	"What if she is too busy to fill your coffee cup..."
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	What if she is too busy to fill your coffee cup...
Mr. Pink:	"Words, "Too Busy," shouldn't be in a waitresses vocabulary."
Mr. Pink:	Words, 'Too Busy,' shouldn't be in a waitresses vocabulary.

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:

I don't like alarms, Mr. White.

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	are you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Are you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite.

Budd:

This is for breaking my brother's heart.

Bill:	You hocked a Hattori Hanzon Sword?
Budd:	Yep.
Bill:	It was priceless.
Budd:	Well, not in El Paso, it ain't. In El Paso I got me $250 for it.

Will:	"not really"
Will:	Not really.

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:

Was that as good for you as it was for me?

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	(saying to Mr.white)Are you going to bark all day little doggie or are you going to bite
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	[saying to Mr. White] Are you going to bark all day little doggie, or are you going to bite?

Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get. [He removes his razor]
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	Look kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, O.K.? I don't really give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get… Ha ha ha ha… Ah God! You ever listen to K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies? It's my personal favorite. [He removes his razor]
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega:	You ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend? It's my personal favorite.