The actor Michael Madsen, known for his papers in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill”, died at the age of 67.
Madsen’s death was confirmed Thursday by his publicist, Liz Rodríguez.
Madsen was found that he does not respond on Thursday morning at his home in Malibu, California, and he believes he died due to cardiac arrest, Rodriguez told ABC News.
“In the last two years, Michael Madsen has been doing incredible job with independent films, including the next films Resurrection Road, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives, and really waited for this next chapter of his life,” Rodriguez said in a statement also written by Madsen’s managers, Susan Ferris and Ron Smith. “Michael was also preparing to launch a new book called ‘Tears for My Father: Outlaw thoughts and poems’, currently edited.”
The actor Michael Madsen poses for a portrait during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, on January 24, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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The statement continued: “Michael Madsen was one of Hollywood’s most emblematic actors, which many will be surprised by many.”
Madsen had a decades in Hollywood that included papers in more than 300 films, including several that are still in production, according Your IMDB page.
Born on September 25, 1957, the actor’s first role was in the Edward T. McDougal film of 1982 directed “Against All Hope”, in which he played the main role of a man who fights with alcoholism that resorts to a reverend in search of help.
Then he got more roles on television and cinema, including the 1985 television series, “Our family honor” and the film directed by Ridley Scott in 1991 “Thelma and Louise”, starred with Brad Pitt, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.
In 1992 he starred in his first film directed by Quentin Tarantino, “Reservoir Dogs” as Mr. Blonde/Vic. The film followed a jewelry robbery that went wrong and also starred Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel.
Madsen spoke with ABC News in 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival for the 25th anniversary of “Reservoir Dogs” and said it was “very fortunate and very blessed” of being in the film.
“I had a great director and I had a great script,” he said. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. I was very young. It was one of my first photos. He (Tarantino) let me improvise enough.”
As for the iconic dance scene he delivered in the film to “trapped in the middle with you,” Madsen said “he did it on the spot.”
“Honestly, I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “And he (Tarantino) never made me rehearse because I was intimidated by that. Because I am not a dancer. And I started thinking about this Jimmy (James) movie of Cagney that I saw: about the university or something, and he does this little dance and entered my head just before having to do it.
Michael Madsen thinks of ‘reservoir dogs’ 25 years later He lives from the red carpet for the 25th anniversary of ‘Reservoir Dogs’, the actor, Madsen remembers his experience with the movie.
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His role as Mr. Blonde was the first of many hard types of the wise men who would play in Budd’s Tarantino films, also known as Sidewinder in the three films of “Kill Bill”, Sheriff Hackett in the Rewards Law in “Once upon a time … in Hollywood” and Joe Gage in “The Hateful Eight.”
While talking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, Madsen reflected In his career in Hollywood and the roles he has played and called for fame a “two -edge sword.”
“There are many blessings but also many heavy things that come with her,” he said. “I think it has a lot to do with the characters I have interpreted. I think I have been more credible than it should have been. I think people really fear me and go:” Holy S —, there is that guy! “But I’m not that guy.
He added: “When I am not making a movie, I’m at home, in pajamas, watching the rifle on television, luckily with my 12 -year -old boy making a hamburger with cheese. I am sure I had my agitation days, but sooner or later you have to overcome that and move on.”
Madsen has been married three times. First he married the actress of the “General Hospital” Georganne Lapiere from 1984 to 1988. Then he married actress Jeannine Bisignano in 1991. The two divorced in 1995. They shared two children together: Christian and Max.
In 1996, he married actress Deanna Madsen had three children together: Calvin, Luke and Hudson Madsen.
Michael Madsen poses in Hollywood Life House, January 22, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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In 2022, Madsen suffered a personal tragedy when his son, Hudson Madsen, 26, died for suicide. Madsen said in a statement To Los Angeles Times After the death of his son, he was trying to “make sense.”
“I am in shock when my son, with whom I just talked a few days ago, said I was happy: my last text message was ‘I love you dad’,” Madsen said in a statement to The Times. “I didn’t see any sign of depression. It’s so tragic and sad. I’m just trying to make sense of everything and understand what happened.”
Two years after the death of Hudson Madsen, the actor requested the divorce of Deanna Madsen.
