Virginia Madsen Biography

Virginia Madsen (born on September 11, 1961) is an Academy Award nominated actress.

Biography

Virginia Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is of Danish, Irish and Native American descent. Virginia is also an alumna of New Trier High School. She was born in 1961, but her year of birth was erroneously disseminated in the media as 1963.

Audiences first caught a glimpse of Virginia Madsen as Princess Irulan in David Lynch's science fiction epic Dune (1984). Virginia first became popular with audiences in 1986 with her portrayal of a Catholic school girl who fell in love with a boy from a prison camp in Duncan Gibbons's Fire with Fire. Other noted film appearances include 1990's The Hot Spot with Don Johnson, and the steamy Third Degree Burn with Treat Williams. There appeared to be a trend (Fire, Hot, Burn) in names.

In 2004 Virginia Madsen gave a critically acclaimed performance in Sideways, which garnered her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as well as a Broadcast Film Critics Award win for Best Supporting Actress.

Madsen's older brother, Michael Madsen, is also an actor (who has stated he refuses to see any films in which Virginia Madsen has a nude scene), and her mother, Elaine Madsen, is an Emmy-winning writer and producer.

When Virginia Madsen arrived in Hollywood she was engaged to actor Billy Campbell. Madsen was married to Danny Huston from 1989 to 1992. Virginia later had a relationship with actor Antonio Sabato Jr., which in 1994 produced a son, Jack.

Film List

• (2006) A Prairie Home Companion
• (2006) Firewall
• (2004) Sideways
• (2003) Nobody Knows Anything!
• (2003) Artworks
• (2002) American Gun
• (2001) Almost Salinas
• (2000) After S--
• (2000) Lying In Wait
• (1999) The Haunting
• (1999) The Florentine
• (1998) Ambushed
• (1998) Ballad of the Nightingale
• (1997) The Rainmaker
• (1996) Ghosts of Mississippi
• (1995) The Prophecy
• (1994) Blue Tiger
• (1994) Caroline at Midnight
• (1992) Candyman
• (1991) Becoming Colette
• (1991) Highlander II: The Quickening
• (1990) The Hot Spot
• (1989) Heart of Dixie
• (1988) Hot to Trot
• (1988) Mr. North
• (1987) Zombie High
• (1987) Slam Dance
• (1986) Modern Girls
• (1986) Fire with Fire
• (1985) Creator
• (1984) Dune
• (1984) Electric Dreams
• (1983) Class