Michael Madsen

Known for: Acting
Born: September 25, 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: July 3, 2025
Movies: 300

Michael Søren 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.

Upcoming Michael Madsen Movies

The First Circle

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A Corpse in Kensington

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Saturday at the Starlight

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Cookbook for Southern Housewives

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Ava

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Best-Known Movies

8.0

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003

8.1

Reservoir Dogs

1992

7.8

The Hateful Eight

2015

7.9

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2004

7.4

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

7.1

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

7.5

Sin City

2005

7.5

Donnie Brasco

1997

7.6

Thelma & Louise

1991

6.0

Die Another Day

2002

Filmography

2026	Concessions	Rex Fuel
2026	Legend of the White Dragon	Max Reed
2026	Blood Behind Us	Reed Philibosian
2026	Mr. Wonderful	Brian Fenton
2026	Demon Hunters
2025	Queen of Manhattan	District Attorney
2025	The Things We Carry
2025	Sinatra! Eternity	Robert (Bob) Nelson
2025	Resurrection Road	Quantrill
2024	DinoGator	Layton
2024	Prepare to Die	Sheriff Hansen
2024	Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha	Kensei
2024	Max Dagan	Don Clancy
2024	Arena Wars	Samson
2024	Final Wager	Ian
2024	Chuck Zito: An American Story	Self
2024	South of Hope Street	Benjamin
2024	Spirit Riser	Narrator (voice)
2024	Monster Mash	Doctor Frankenstein
2024	Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird	Self
2024	Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge	Logan Bergman
2023	Grace	Man (Voice)
2023	Outlaw Johnny Black	Dutch
2023	The Lurking Fear	Officer Hansen
2023	Buckle Up
2023	Necronomicon
2023	Assault on Hill 400	General Cota
2023	Waking Karma	Paul
2022	The Wraith Within	Sheriff Townsend
2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Self
2022	Death Count	Detective Casey
2022	Incarnation	Peter
2022	Until We Meet Again	Detective Morrison
2022	Damon's Revenge	Damon
2021	Run Raven Run	Narrator (voice)
2021	Christmas Thieves	Vince
2021	Every Last One of Them	Bill
2021	American Night	Lord Samuel Morgan
2021	Ten Million Throwaways	Narrator
2021	Burial Ground Massacre	Damon
2021	Red Prophecies	Richard Tyler
2021	Playing with Stars
2021	Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend	Self (archive footage)
2020	Red Handed	Lou
2020	Nishabdham	Richard Dawkins
2020	Dirty Fears	Michael
2020	The Garden Left Behind	Kevin
2020	Unbelievable!!!!!	President Ben Dover
2020	Shark Season	James
2020	Puppy Love	Wesley
2020	Serpent in the Bottle	Joe
2020	Conjuring: The Book of the Dead	Jefferson
2020	Angels Fallen	Balthazar
2020	2 Graves in the Desert	Vince
2019	Arctic Dogs	Duke (voice)
2019	QT8: The First Eight	Self
2019	Primitiva	Narrator (voice)
2019	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	'Bounty Law' - Sheriff Hackett
2019	Rock, Paper, Scissors	Doyle Dechert
2019	Born2Race	Bobby Unser
2019	Welcome to Acapulco	Hyde
2019	Trading Paint	Linsky
2018	Hangover in Death Valley	Ted (archive footage)
2018	Dead On Time	Mike McGuirk
2018	Assassins Revenge	Detective Frank McMillian
2018	Megalodon	Admiral King
2018	Spatss!	Gang Leader
2018	Q-4: Dream Corporation
2018	Dirty Dealing	Dean
2018	Papa	Ivan
2018	Love Addict	Mr. Dickinson
2018	Garlic and Gunpowder	Jason
2018	Grindhouse Nightmares
2018	The Journey Ahead	Max
2017	The Broken Key	Tully DeMarco
2017	Unfallen	General McCallister
2017	The Wrong Neighbor	Coach Jaworski
2017	Devil's Domain	Bill
2017	Gasoline	Макс, баща на Дим
2016	Along for the Ride	Self
2016	Vigilante Diaries	Moreau
2016	Talons	George Fitzgerald
2016	Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider	Self
2016	Last Man Club	Stearman Pilot
2016	Back in the Day	Enzo
2016	Magi	Lawrence Irlam
2016	Kidnapped in Romania	Mihai
2015	The Hateful Eight	Joe Gage
2015	Flipped	Casey
2015	Lumberjack Man	Dr. Peter Shirtcliff
2015	Sacred Blood	Detective Brennan
2015	Death in the Desert	Ray Easler
2015	The Lost Tree	John
2015	Lady Psycho Killer	Doctor Douglass
2015	Bikini Inception	Himself
2015	No Deposit	Peter Shay
2015	A Hitman in London	The Boss
2015	Diamond Cartel	Mike
2015	Hope Lost	Manol
2014	Beyond the Game	Robert
2014	Bra Wars – Hollywood’s Affair With The Bra	Self
2014	Non escludo il ritorno	Paul Hummel
2014	Water Wars	Bane
2014	2047: Sights of Death	Lobo
2014	The Ninth Cloud	Bob
2014	Express 'Moscow-Russia'	продюсер Милы
2014	Turn Around Jake	Russell O'Malley
2013	I'm in Love with a Church Girl	Frank Harris
2013	Terrible Angels	Ben Nolan
2013	Lionhead	Walter Powell
2013	A Sierra Nevada Gunfight	Sheriff Sawyer
2013	Ashley	Bill
2013	Nomad the Beginning	Wolf
2013	Gabrielle	Edward Sheehan
2013	ICE Agent	Carlos Garcia
2013	Infected	Louis Hartley
2013	Along the Roadside	Jerry
2013	Madoff: Made Off with America	Agent Kennedy
2013	Garbage	Michael
2013	Alien Battlefield
2012	Prince of the City	Ben Carlton
2012	Magic Boys	Terence
2012	Beyond the Trophy	Cole Lambert
2012	Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny	Sef
2012	Cole Younger & The Black Train	Marshall Stallings
2012	Piranhaconda	Prof. Lovegrove
2012	Sins	Don Mancino
2012	Loosies	Lt. 'Sully' Sullivan
2012	Eldorado	Ted
2011	Dirty Little Trick	Vito
2011	Not Another Not Another Movie	Lester Storm
2011	Amsterdam Heavy	Keele
2011	The Lion of Judah	Boss (voice)
2011	The Forest	Lt. Brandon Ross
2011	Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair	Budd (Sidewinder)
2011	The 5th Execution	Rik
2011	A Cold Day in Hell	U.S. Marshal Stallings
2010	The Brazen Bull
2010	Federal	Sam Gibson
2010	Terror Trap	Hotel Operator
2010	Trader Games	William
2010	Six Days in Paradise	Rich McShane
2010	Let the Game Begin	Dr. Turner
2010	The Big I Am	Martell
2010	The Killing Jar	Doe
2010	The Portal	Dr. Azirra
2010	Corruption.Gov	Senator John Mordire
2009	Road of No Return	J. Marcone
2009	The Tomb	George
2009	The Bleeding	Father Roy
2009	Creepshow Raw: Insomnia	Barry
2009	Gloves of Stone	Willie
2009	Serbian Scars	Dreq
2009	Lost in the Woods	Stuart Bunka
2009	Green Lantern: First Flight	Kilowog (voice)
2009	The Face is Familiar	Himself
2009	The Way	Commander
2009	Break	The Associate
2009	Amazing Racer	Dave Blair
2009	Hired Gun	Dan Moeller
2009	You Might As Well Live	Clinton Manitoba
2009	Deep Winter	Dean
2009	Clear Lake, WI	The Reverend
2009	Outrage: Born in Terror	Farragut
2009	Christmas Crash	Joseph Johnson
2008	House	Tin Man/Officer Lawdale
2008	Hell Ride	The Gent
2008	45 R.P.M.	Major Baxter
2008	No Bad Days	Lester
2008	The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry	Self
2008	A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry	Self
2008	The Business End: Violence in Cinema	Self
2008	The Evolution of Clint Eastwood	Self
2008	The Craft of Dirty Harry	Self
2008	Crash and Burn	Vincent Scaillo
2008	Vice	Max Walker
2008	Last Hour	Monk
2008	Eyes Front
2008	Killer's Freedom	Leo Ibiza
2007	Strength and Honour	Sean Kelleher
2007	Cosmic Radio	Senator Atwood
2007	Tooth and Nail	Jackal - Rover
2007	Being Michael Madsen	Self
2007	Croc	Croc Hawkins
2007	Boarding Gate	Miles Rennberg
2007	L.A. Dicks	Steven Miller
2007	Living & Dying	Agent Lind
2007	Machine	Ray
2007	Afghan Knights	Cooper
2006	UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine	Major Blevins
2006	Canes	Guillermo List
2006	The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird	Self
2006	Prohibition Opens the Floodgates	Self
2006	Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood	Self
2006	Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light	Self
2006	Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films	Self
2006	The Last Drop	J.T. Colt
2006	Scary Movie 4	Oliver
2006	All In	Seal
2006	BloodRayne	Vladimir
2006	Hoboken Hollow	J.T. Goldman
2006	Southern Comfort
2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Maugrim (voice)
2005	Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005	Law of Corruption	American
2005	Chasing Ghosts	Kevin Harrison
2005	Sin City	Bob
2004	Frankenstein	Detec. Harker
2004	The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'	Self
2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self
2004	Kill Bill: Vol. 2	Budd 'Sidewinder'
2004	Blueberry	Wallace Sebastian Blount
2004	Jacked$	Boss
2003	Vampires Anonymous	Geno
2003	Kill Bill: Vol. 1	Budd
2003	My Boss's Daughter	T.J.
2003	44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out	Frank McGregor
2003	Pauly Shore Is Dead	Michael Madsen
2003	Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey	Self
2002	The Real Deal	Baker Jacks
2002	Die Another Day	Falco
2002	The Thief & the Stripper	Jimmie D.
2002	Primal Instinct	Russ
2002	Welcome to America	Special Agent Leon Fogel
2001	42K	Narrator
2001	L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve	James Alexander
2001	Choke	Will
2001	Pressure Point	Jed Griffin
2001	Extreme Honor	Sparks
2001	Fall	Jeremy Banes
2001	The Ghost	Dan Olinghouse
2001	Outlaw	Conner
2000	The Price of Air	Mr. Ball
2000	High Noon	Frank Miller
2000	Bad Guys	Jay Peters
2000	The Stray	Ben
2000	Sacrifice	Tyler Pierce
2000	The Alternate	Agent Briggs
2000	Luck of the Draw	Zippo
2000	Voodoo Dawn	Frank Barlow
2000	The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence	Joe
2000	Ultimate Target	Uncle
1999	Flat Out	Gene
1999	Ballad of the Nightingale	Giovanni
1999	The Florentine	Whitey
1999	Supreme Sanction	Dalton
1998	Detour	Burl Rogers
1998	Papertrail	FBI Agent Brad Abraham
1998	The Sender	Dallas Grayson
1998	Species II	Press Lenox
1998	Steve McQueen: The King of Cool	Self
1998	Rough Draft	Haynes
1997	Surface to Air	Gunnery Sgt. Zach Massin
1997	The Girl Gets Moe	Donnelly
1997	Catherine's Grove	Joe Mason
1997	The Maker	Skarney
1997	Executive Target	Nick James
1997	Donnie Brasco	Dominick 'Sonny Black' Napolitano
1996	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Sal
1996	The Winner	Wolf
1996	Mulholland Falls	Eddie Hall
1995	Red Line	Mr. Lawrence
1995	Man with a Gun	John Wilbur Hardin
1995	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Glen Greenwood
1995	Species	Preston Lennox
1994	Wyatt Earp	Virgil Earp
1994	Dead Connection	Det. Matt Dickson
1994	Season of Change	Randy Parker
1994	Blue Tiger	Gun Salesman (uncredited)
1994	The Getaway	Rudy Travis
1994	Who Do You Think You're Fooling?	Mr. Blonde (archive footage)
1993	Inside Edge	Richard Montana
1993	Money for Nothing	Detective Laurenzi
1993	Almost Blue	Morris
1993	Free Willy	Glen Greenwood
1993	Beyond the Law	Blood
1993	A House in the Hills	Mickey
1993	Trouble Bound	Harry Talbot
1992	To Kill For	Cliff Burden
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
1992	Baby Snatcher	Cal Hudson
1992	Straight Talk	Steve
1991	Thelma & Louise	Jimmy
1991	The Doors	Tom Baker
1990	The End of Innocence	Earl
1990	Montana	Pierce
1989	Kill Me Again	Vince Miller
1989	Blood Red	Enzio
1988	Iguana	Sebastián
1988	Shadows in the Storm	Earl
1987	The Killing Time	Stu
1984	The Natural	Bump Bailey
1984	Racing with the Moon	Frank
1983	Diner	Boogie
1983	WarGames	Steve
1983	Special Bulletin	Jimmy Lenox
1982	Against All Hope	Cecil Moe

Directing, Writing & Producing

2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Producer, Writer
2010	The Brazen Bull	Producer
2007	Being Michael Madsen	Producer

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