Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

328

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-09-25 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Maykl Medsen
Майкл Медсен
Michael Søren Madsen
مایکل مدسن

Michael Madsen

Biography

An American actor, poet, and photographer. He has 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.

Known For

8.0%

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Oct 10, 2003

8.1%

Reservoir Dogs

Sep 2, 1992

7.8%

The Hateful Eight

Dec 25, 2015

7.9%

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Apr 16, 2004

7.4%

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Jul 24, 2019

7.1%

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

Dec 7, 2005

7.5%

Sin City

Apr 1, 2005

7.5%

Donnie Brasco

Feb 27, 1997

6.0%

Die Another Day

Nov 17, 2002

7.6%

Thelma & Louise

May 24, 1991

5.5%

Scary Movie 4

Apr 12, 2006

7.1%

WarGames

Jun 3, 1983

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Acting

—		Legend of the White Dragon as Max Reed
—		The First Circle as Eli Brevil
—		Resurrection Road as Quantrill
—		Blood Behind Us
—		Saturday at the Starlight as Frank Gunt
—		Concessions
—		Cookbook for Southern Housewives as Kingsley
—		Anushka's Nishabdham
—		Saturday at the Starlight as Frank Gunt

2025

A Corpse in Kensington as Michael

2024		DinoGator as Layton
2024		Prepare to Die
2024		Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha as Kensei
2024		Max Dagan as Don Clancy
2024		Arena Wars as Samson
2024		Final Wager as Ian
2024		South of Hope Street as Benjamin
2024		Spirit Riser as Narrator (voice)
2024		Monster Mash as Doctor Frankenstein
2024		Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as Self
2024		Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge as Logan Bergman

2023		Outlaw Johnny Black as Dutch
2023		The Lurking Fear as Officer Hansen
2023		Buckle Up
2023		Necronomicon
2023		Assault on Hill 400 as General Cota
2023		Waking Karma as Paul

2022		The Wraith Within as Sheriff Townsend
2022		American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
2022		Death Count as Detective Casey
2022		The Latin from Manhattan as District Attorney
2022		Incarnation as Peter
2022		Until We Meet Again as Detective Morrison
2022		Damon's Revenge as Damon

2021		Run Raven Run as Narrator (voice)
2021		Christmas Thieves as Vince
2021		Every Last One of Them as Bill
2021		American Night as Lord Samuel Morgan
2021		Ten Million Throwaways as Narrator
2021		Burial Ground Massacre as Damon
2021		Red Prophecies as Richard Tyler
2021		Playing with Stars
2021		Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)

2020		Red Handed as Lou
2020		Nishabdham as Richard Dawkins
2020		Dirty Fears as Michael
2020		The Garden Left Behind as Kevin
2020		Unbelievable!!!!! as President Ben Dover
2020		Shark Season as James
2020		Puppy Love as Wesley
2020		Serpent in the Bottle as Joe
2020		Conjuring: The Book of the Dead as Jefferson
2020		Angels Fallen as Balthazar
2020		2 Graves in the Desert as Vince

2019		Arctic Dogs as Duke (voice)
2019		QT8: The First Eight as Self
2019		Primitiva as Narrator (voice)
2019		Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - Sheriff Hackett
2019		Born2Race as Bobby Unser
2019		Welcome to Acapulco as Hyde
2019		Trading Paint as Linsky

2018		Hangover in Death Valley as Ted (archive footage)
2018		Dead On Time as Mike McGuirk
2018		Assassins Revenge as Detective Frank McMillian
2018		Megalodon as Admiral King
2018		Spatss! as Gang Leader
2018		Q-4: Dream Corporation
2018		Dirty Dealing as Dean
2018		Papa as Ivan
2018		Love Addict as Mr. Dickinson
2018		Garlic and Gunpowder as Jason
2018		Grindhouse Nightmares
2018		The Journey Ahead as Max

2017		The Broken Key as Tully DeMarco
2017		Rock, Paper, Scissors as Doyle Dechert
2017		Unfallen as General McCallister
2017		The Wrong Neighbor as Coach Jaworski
2017		Devil's Domain as Bill
2017		Gasoline as Макс, баща на Дим

2016		Along for the Ride as Self
2016		Vigilante Diaries as Moreau
2016		Talons as George Fitzgerald
2016		Master of Photography
2016		Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
2016		Last Man Club as Stearman Pilot
2016		Back in the Day as Enzo
2016		Magi as Lawrence Irlam
2016		Emigratis as Self
2016		Kidnapped in Romania as Mihai

2015		The Hateful Eight as Joe Gage
2015		Flipped as Casey
2015		Lumberjack Man as Dr. Peter Shirtcliff
2015		Sacred Blood as Detective Brennan
2015		Death in the Desert as Ray Easler
2015		The Lost Tree as John
2015		Lady Psycho Killer as Doctor Douglass
2015		CobraGator as Layton
2015		Bikini Inception as Himself
2015		No Deposit as Peter Shay
2015		Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Harvey Scoles
2015		A Hitman in London as The Boss
2015		Powers as SuperShock
2015		Diamond Cartel as Mike
2015		Hope Lost as Manol

2014		Beyond the Game as Robert
2014		Non escludo il ritorno as Paul Hummel
2014		Water Wars as Bane
2014		2047: Sights of Death as Lobo
2014		The Ninth Cloud as Bob
2014		Express 'Moscow-Russia' as агент
2014		Turn Around Jake as Russell O'Malley

2013		I'm in Love with a Church Girl as Frank Harris
2013		Terrible Angels as Ben Nolan
2013		Lionhead as Walter Powell
2013		A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Sheriff Sawyer
2013		Ashley as Bill
2013		Nomad the Beginning as Wolf
2013		Gabrielle as Edward Sheehan
2013		ICE Agent as Carlos Garcia
2013		Infected as Louis Hartley
2013		Along the Roadside as Jerry
2013		Golden Boy as Walter Clark Sr.
2013		Madoff: Made Off with America as Agent Kennedy
2013		Garbage as Michael
2013		Alien Battlefield

2012		Prince of the City as Ben Carlton
2012		Magic Boys as Terence
2012		Beyond the Trophy as Cole Lambert
2012		Bad Destiny as Sef
2012		Cole Younger & The Black Train as Marshall Stallings
2012		Piranhaconda as Prof. Lovegrove
2012		Sins as Don Mancino
2012		Loosies as Lt. 'Sully' Sullivan
2012		Eldorado as Ted

2011		Dirty Little Trick as Vito
2011		Not Another Not Another Movie as Lester Storm
2011		Amsterdam Heavy as Keele
2011		Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side as Self
2011		The Lion of Judah as Boss (voice)
2011		The Forest as Lt. Brandon Ross
2011		Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair as Budd (Sidewinder)
2011		The 5th Execution as Rik
2011		Bob's Burgers as Kevin Costner (voice)
2011		A Cold Day in Hell as U.S. Marshal Stallings

2010		The Brazen Bull
2010		Federal as Sam Gibson
2010		Zulu Gumball as Self
2010		Blue Bloods as John
2010		Terror Trap as Hotel Operator
2010		Hawaii Five-0 as Roy Parrish
2010		Trader Games as William
2010		Let the Game Begin as Dr. Turner
2010		The Big I Am as Martell
2010		The Killing Jar as Doe
2010		The Portal as Dr. Azirra
2010		Corruption.Gov as Senator John Mordire

2009		Road of No Return as J. Marcone
2009		The Tomb as George
2009		The Bleeding as Father Roy
2009		Creepshow Raw: Insomnia as Barry
2009		Gloves of Stone as Willie
2009		Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2009		Serbian Scars as Dreq
2009		Lost in the Woods as Stuart Bunka
2009		Green Lantern: First Flight as Kilowog (voice)
2009		The Face is Familiar as Himself
2009		The Way as Commander
2009		Break as The Associate
2009		Amazing Racer as Dave Blair
2009		Hired Gun as Dan Moeller
2009		You Might As Well Live as Clinton Manitoba
2009		Deep Winter as Dean
2009		Clear Lake, WI as The Reverend
2009		Christmas Crash as Joseph Johnson
2009		Outrage: Born in Terror as Farragut

2008		House as Tin Man/Officer Lawdale
2008		Hell Ride as The Gent
2008		45 R.P.M. as Major Baxter
2008		No Bad Days as Lester
2008		The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry as Self
2008		A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry as Self
2008		The Evolution of Clint Eastwood as Self
2008		The Business End: Violence in Cinema as Self
2008		The Craft of Dirty Harry as Self
2008		Crash and Burn as Vincent Scaillo
2008		Vice as Max Walker
2008		Last Hour as Monk
2008		Eyes Front
2008		Killer's Freedom as Leo Ibiza

2007		Strength and Honour as Sean Kelleher
2007		Cosmic Radio as Senator Atwood
2007		Tooth and Nail as Jackal - Rover
2007		Being Michael Madsen as Self
2007		Croc as Croc Hawkins
2007		Boarding Gate as Miles Rennberg
2007		L.A. Dicks as Steven Miller
2007		Living & Dying as Agent Lind
2007		Machine as Ray
2007		Afghan Knights as Cooper

2006		UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine as Major Blevins
2006		Canes as Guillermo List
2006		The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
2006		Prohibition Opens the Floodgates as Self
2006		Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light as Self
2006		Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
2006		Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
2006		The Last Drop as J.T. Colt
2006		Scary Movie 4 as Oliver
2006		All In as Seal
2006		Tarantino's Mind as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega (archive footage)
2006		Hoboken Hollow as J.T. Goldman
2006		Southern Comfort

2005		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Maugrim (voice)
2005		Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005		BloodRayne as Vladimir
2005		Law of Corruption as American
2005		Chasing Ghosts as Kevin Harrison
2005		Sin City as Bob
2005		Tilt as Don 'The Matador' Everest

2004		Frankenstein as Detec. Harker
2004		The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' as Self
2004		Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
2004		Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Budd 'Sidewinder'
2004		Renegade as Wallace Sebastian Blount
2004		On Air with Ryan Seacrest as Self
2004		Jacked$ as Boss

2003		Vampires Anonymous as Geno
2003		Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as Budd
2003		My Boss's Daughter as T.J.
2003		44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out as Frank McGregor
2003		Pauly Shore Is Dead as Michael Madsen
2003		Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self

2002		The Real Deal as Baker Jacks
2002		Die Another Day as Damian Falco
2002		The Thief & the Stripper as Jimmie D.
2002		CSI: Miami
2002		Primal Instinct as Russ
2002		Welcome to America as Special Agent Leon Fogel

2001		Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
2001		42K as Narrator
2001		L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve as James Alexander
2001		Choke as Will
2001		Pressure Point as Jed Griffin
2001		Animal Precinct
2001		Extreme Honor as Sparks
2001		Celebrity Big Brother as Self
2001		The Ghost as Dan Olinghouse
2001		Fall as Jeremy Banes
2001		Outlaw as Conner

2000		The Price of Air as Mr. Ball
2000		High Noon as Frank Miller
2000		Bad Guys as Jay Peters
2000		The Stray as Ben
2000		Sacrifice as Tyler Pierce
2000		The Alternate as Agent Briggs
2000		Luck of the Draw as Zippo
2000		Voodoo Dawn as Frank Barlow
2000		The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence as Joe
2000		Ultimate Target as Uncle

1999		Flat Out as Gene
1999		Ballad of the Nightingale as Giovanni
1999		The Florentine as Whitey
1999		Supreme Sanction as Dalton

1998		Detour as Burl Rogers
1998		Vengeance Unlimited as Mr. Chapel
1998		Papertrail as FBI Agent Brad Abraham
1998		The Sender as Dallas Grayson
1998		Species II as Press Lenox
1998		Rough Draft as Haynes

1997		Surface to Air as Gunnery Sgt. Zach Massin
1997		The Girl Gets Moe as Donnelly
1997		Catherine's Grove as Joe Mason
1997		The Maker as Skarney
1997		Executive Target as Nick James
1997		Donnie Brasco as Dominick 'Sonny Black' Napolitano

1996		The Last Days of Frankie the Fly as Sal
1996		The Winner as Wolf
1996		Mulholland Falls as Eddie Hall

1995		Red Line as Mr. Lawrence
1995		MADtv as Self
1995		Man with a Gun as John Wilbur Hardin
1995		Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home as Glen Greenwood
1995		Species as Preston Lennox

1994		Wyatt Earp as Virgil Earp
1994		Dead Connection as Det. Matt Dickson
1994		Season of Change as Randy Parker
1994		Blue Tiger as Gun Salesman (uncredited)
1994		The Getaway as Rudy Travis
1994		Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. Blonde (archive footage)

1993		Inside Edge as Richard Montana
1993		Money for Nothing as Detective Laurenzi
1993		Almost Blue as Morris
1993		Free Willy as Glen Greenwood
1993		Beyond the Law as Blood
1993		A House in the Hills as Mickey
1993		Trouble Bound as Harry Talbot

1992		To Kill For as Cliff Burden
1992		Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
1992		Baby Snatcher as Cal Hudson
1992		Straight Talk as Steve

1991		Thelma & Louise as Jimmy
1991		The Doors as Tom Baker

1990		The End of Innocence as Earl
1990		Gabriel's Fire
1990		The Outsiders as Mick Jenkins
1990		Montana as Pierce

1989		Kill Me Again as Vince A. Miller
1989		Blood Red as Enzio
1989		Quantum Leap as Blue

1988		War and Remembrance
1988		Sidewalks Entertainment
1988		Iguana as Sebastián
1988		Shadows in the Storm as Earl

1987		The Killing Time as Stu
1987		Jake and the Fatman
1987		Tour of Duty as Sergeant Greg Block

1986

Crime Story as Johnny Fosse

1985

Our Family Honor as Augie Danzig

1984		Miami Vice as Sally Alvarado
1984		The Natural as Bump Bailey
1984		Racing with the Moon as Frank

1983		The Hitchhiker as John Hampton
1983		Diner as Boogie
1983		WarGames as Steve
1983		Special Bulletin as Jimmy Lenox

1982		St. Elsewhere
1982		Cagney & Lacey
1982		Against All Hope as Cecil Moe

Production

—

The First Circle as Co-Producer

2022

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Producer

2021

Every Last One of Them as Executive Producer

2019

The Dirty Kind as Executive Producer

2015

Death in the Desert as Executive Producer

2010

The Brazen Bull as Producer

2009

Road of No Return as Associate Producer

2008

Vice as Executive Producer

2007

Being Michael Madsen as Producer

1998

The Sender as Associate Producer

Writing

2022

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Writer