Michael Madsen
September 25, 1957 (68 years old) in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Queen of Manhattan as District Attorney
- 2024 · Arena Wars as Samson
- 2022 · The Wraith Within as Sheriff Townsend
- 2021 · Batman: Dying is Easy as Bullock
- 2020 · Nishabdham as Richard Dawkins
- 2020 · Angels Fallen as Balthazar
- 2019 · QT8: The First Eight as Self
- 2019 · Primitiva as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - Sheriff Hackett
- 2018 · Megalodon as Admiral King
- 2017 · The Broken Key as Tully DeMarco
- 2017 · Gasoline as Макс, баща на Дим
- 2016 · Magi as Lawrence Irlam
- 2016 · Emigratis as Self
- 2015 · The Hateful Eight as Joe Gage
- 2015 · Lumberjack Man as Dr. Peter Shirtcliff
- 2015 · A Hitman in London as The Boss
- 2015 · Powers as SuperShock
- 2015 · Diamond Cartel as Mike
- 2013 · Ashley as Bill
- 2013 · Golden Boy as Walter Clark Sr.
- 2012 · Piranhaconda as Prof. Lovegrove
- 2012 · Sins as Don Mancino
- 2012 · Loosies as Lt. 'Sully' Sullivan
- 2011 · Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side as Self
- 2011 · Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair as Budd (Sidewinder)
- 2011 · The 5th Execution as Rik
- 2011 · Bob's Burgers as Kevin Costner (voice)
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as John
- 2010 · Hawaii Five-0 as Roy Parrish
- 2010 · The Portal as Dr. Azirra
- 2009 · The Tomb as George
- 2009 · Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- 2009 · The Way as Commander
- 2009 · Break as The Associate
- 2009 · Amazing Racer as Dave Blair
- 2008 · Hell Ride as The Gent
- 2008 · Vice as Max Walker
- 2008 · Eyes Front as
- 2007 · Croc as Croc Hawkins
- 2007 · Living & Dying as Agent Lind
- 2006 · Scary Movie 4 as Oliver
- 2005 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Maugrim (voice)
- 2005 · Law of Corruption as American
- 2005 · Sin City as Bob
- 2005 · Tilt as Don 'The Matador' Everest
- 2004 · Frankenstein as Detec. Harker
- 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 · Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as Budd
- 2003 · My Boss's Daughter as T.J.
- 2002 · Die Another Day as Falco
- 2002 · CSI: Miami as
- 2001 · 24 as Jim Ricker
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- 2001 · Choke as Will
- 2001 · Celebrity Big Brother as Self
- 2001 · Fall as Jeremy Banes
- 2001 · The Ghost as Dan Olinghouse
- 2000 · The Stray as Ben
- 2000 · The Alternate as Agent Briggs
- 1998 · Papertrail as FBI Agent Brad Abraham
- 1998 · Species II as Press Lenox
- 1997 · Donnie Brasco as Dominick 'Sonny Black' Napolitano
- 1996 · Mulholland Falls as Eddie Hall
- 1995 · Species as Preston Lennox
- 1994 · Wyatt Earp as Virgil Earp
- 1993 · Free Willy as Glen Greenwood
- 1992 · Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
- 1992 · Straight Talk as Steve
- 1991 · Thelma & Louise as Jimmy
- 1990 · The Outsiders as Mick Jenkins
- 1989 · Blood Red as Enzio
- 1989 · Quantum Leap as Blue
- 1988 · Sidewalks Entertainment as
- 1987 · Jake and the Fatman as
- 1987 · Tour of Duty as Sergeant Greg Block
- 1986 · Crime Story as Johnny Fosse
- 1984 · Miami Vice as Sally Alvarado
- 1983 · The Hitchhiker as John Hampton
- 1983 · WarGames as Steve
- 1982 · St. Elsewhere as
- 1982 · Cagney & Lacey as
- Future · Sinatra! Eternity as Robert (Bob) Nelson
- 2022 · Incarnation as Peter
- 2021 · Burial Ground Massacre as Damon
- 2020 · Red Handed as Lou
- 2020 · Unbelievable!!!!! as President Ben Dover
- 2019 · Trading Paint as Linsky
- 2018 · Spatss! as Gang Leader
- 2017 · Rock, Paper, Scissors as Doyle Dechert
- 2014 · Beyond the Game as Robert
- 2010 · Terror Trap as Hotel Operator
- 2010 · Trader Games as William
- 2009 · Green Lantern: First Flight as Kilowog (voice)
- 2008 · House as Tin Man/Officer Lawdale
- 2008 · Crash and Burn as Vincent Scaillo
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Miles Rennberg
- 2007 · Machine as Ray
- 2006 · UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine as Major Blevins
- 2006 · Canes as Guillermo List
- 2006 · All In as Seal
- 2005 · BloodRayne as Vladimir
- 2003 · 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out as Frank McGregor
- 2002 · Primal Instinct as Russ
- 2000 · High Noon as Frank Miller
- 2000 · Sacrifice as Tyler Pierce
- 2000 · Ultimate Target as Uncle
- 1998 · The Sender as Dallas Grayson
- 1998 · Rough Draft as Haynes
- 1995 · Red Line as Mr. Lawrence
- 1994 · Dead Connection as Det. Matt Dickson
- 1994 · The Getaway as Rudy Travis
- 1993 · Inside Edge as Richard Montana
- 1992 · To Kill For as Cliff Burden
- 1991 · The Doors as Tom Baker
- 1990 · Gabriel's Fire as
- 1990 · Montana as Pierce
- 1988 · War and Remembrance as
- 1988 · Iguana as Sebastián
- 1984 · The Natural as Bump Bailey
- 1984 · Racing with the Moon as Frank
- 1983 · Diner as Boogie
- Future · Mr. Wonderful as Brian Fenton
- 2025 · Concessions as Rex Fuel
- 2025 · Resurrection Road as Quantrill
- 2024 · DinoGator as Layton
- 2024 · Max Dagan as Don Clancy
- 2024 · Final Wager as Ian
- 2024 · Spirit Riser as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Outlaw Johnny Black as Dutch
- 2023 · Assault on Hill 400 as General Cota
- 2022 · Death Count as Detective Casey
- 2021 · Red Prophecies as Richard Tyler
- 2021 · Playing with Stars as
- 2019 · Arctic Dogs as Duke (voice)
- 2018 · Papa as Ivan
- 2018 · Love Addict as Mr. Dickinson
- 2015 · Flipped as Casey
- 2015 · Death in the Desert as Ray Easler
- 2015 · CobraGator as Layton
- 2015 · Hope Lost as Manol
- 2014 · Water Wars as Bane
- 2013 · Garbage as Michael
- 2011 · The Lion of Judah as Boss (voice)
- 2010 · Let the Game Begin as Dr. Turner
- 2010 · The Big I Am as Martell
- 2009 · Deep Winter as Dean
- 2009 · Clear Lake, WI as The Reverend
- 2005 · Chasing Ghosts as Kevin Harrison
- 2004 · The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' as Self
- 2003 · Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey as Self
- 2001 · Pressure Point as Jed Griffin
- 2001 · Extreme Honor as Sparks
- 2001 · Outlaw as Conner
- 1999 · Supreme Sanction as Dalton
- 1998 · Detour as Burl Rogers
- 1997 · Surface to Air as Gunnery Sgt. Zach Massin
- 1997 · The Maker as Skarney
- 1997 · Executive Target as Nick James
- 1993 · Almost Blue as Morris
- 1983 · Special Bulletin as Jimmy Lenox
- Future · Saturday at the Starlight as Frank Gunt
- 2024 · South of Hope Street as Benjamin
- 2024 · Monster Mash as Doctor Frankenstein
- 2022 · American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
- 2022 · Damon's Revenge as Damon
- 2021 · American Night as Lord Samuel Morgan
- 2020 · Dirty Fears as Michael
- 2018 · Hangover in Death Valley as Ted (archive footage)
- 2018 · Q-4: Dream Corporation as
- 2018 · Garlic and Gunpowder as Jason
- 2016 · Talons as George Fitzgerald
- 2015 · The Lost Tree as John
- 2015 · Lady Psycho Killer as Doctor Douglass
- 2015 · Big Time in Hollywood, Fl as Harvey Scoles
- 2013 · Terrible Angels as Ben Nolan
- 2013 · Nomad the Beginning as Wolf
- 2013 · Infected as Louis Hartley
- 2012 · Magic Boys as Terence
- 2012 · Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny as Sef
- 2012 · Eldorado as Ted
- 2010 · The Brazen Bull as
- 2010 · Federal as Sam Gibson
- 2010 · Zulu Gumball as Self
- 2009 · Road of No Return as J. Marcone
- 2008 · 45 R.P.M. as Major Baxter
- 2007 · Cosmic Radio as Senator Atwood
- 2006 · The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- 2006 · Prohibition Opens the Floodgates as Self
- 2006 · Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
- 2006 · Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light as Self
- 2006 · The Last Drop as J.T. Colt
- 2006 · Hoboken Hollow as J.T. Goldman
- 2001 · 42K as Narrator
- 2001 · Animal Precinct as
- 2000 · The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence as Joe
- 1996 · The Last Days of Frankie the Fly as Sal
- 1995 · Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home as Glen Greenwood
- Future · Blood Behind Us as Reed Philibosian
- 2001 · L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve as James Alexander
- 1996 · The Winner as Wolf
- 1995 · MADtv as Self
- 1993 · Money for Nothing as Detective Laurenzi
- Future · The First Circle as Eli Brevil
- 2026 · A Corpse in Kensington as Michael
- 2024 · Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self
- 2024 · Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as Self
- 2021 · Christmas Thieves as Vince
- 2021 · Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Puppy Love as Wesley
- 2020 · Serpent in the Bottle as Joe
- 2018 · Grindhouse Nightmares as
- 2017 · Unfallen as General McCallister
- 2017 · The Wrong Neighbor as Coach Jaworski
- 2017 · Devil's Domain as Bill
- 2016 · Along for the Ride as Self
- 2016 · Vigilante Diaries as Moreau
- 2016 · Master of Photography as
- 2016 · Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
- 2016 · Kidnapped in Romania as Mihai
- 2015 · Bikini Inception as Himself
- 2015 · No Deposit as Peter Shay
- 2014 · Non Escludo Il Ritorno as Paul Hummel
- 2013 · Alien Battlefield as
- 2012 · Prince of the City as Ben Carlton
- 2011 · Dirty Little Trick as Vito
- 2009 · Outrage: Born in Terror as Farragut
- 2008 · The Business End: Violence in Cinema as Self
- 2007 · Being Michael Madsen as Self
- Future · Legend of the White Dragon as Max Reed
- 2013 · I'm in Love with a Church Girl as Frank Harris
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Sheriff Sawyer
- 2011 · Amsterdam Heavy as Keele
- 2010 · The Killing Jar as Doe
- 2008 · No Bad Days as Lester
- 2008 · Last Hour as Monk
- 2008 · Killer's Freedom as Leo Ibiza
- 2007 · Strength and Honour as Sean Kelleher
- 2007 · Tooth and Nail as Jackal - Rover
- 2007 · Afghan Knights as Cooper
- 2003 · Pauly Shore Is Dead as Michael Madsen
- 1999 · Flat Out as Gene
- 1999 · Ballad of the Nightingale as Giovanni
- 1995 · Man with a Gun as John Wilbur Hardin
- 1993 · Trouble Bound as Harry Talbot
- 1988 · Shadows in the Storm as Earl
- Future · Ava as Peter
- 2025 · The Things We Carry as
- 2024 · Prepare to Die as Sheriff Hansen
- 2024 · Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha as Kensei
- 2024 · Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge as Logan Bergman
- 2023 · The Lurking Fear as Officer Hansen
- 2023 · Buckle Up as
- 2023 · Necronomicon as
- 2023 · Waking Karma as Paul
- 2022 · Until We Meet Again as Detective Morrison
- 2021 · Run Raven Run as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Bill
- 2021 · Ten Million Throwaways as Narrator
- 2020 · The Garden Left Behind as Kevin
- 2020 · Shark Season as James
- 2020 · Conjuring: The Book of the Dead as Jefferson
- 2020 · 2 Graves in the Desert as Vince
- 2019 · Born2Race as Bobby Unser
- 2019 · Welcome to Acapulco as Hyde
- 2018 · Dead On Time as Mike McGuirk
- 2018 · Assassins Revenge as Detective Frank McMillian
- 2018 · Dirty Dealing as Dean
- 2018 · The Journey Ahead as Max
- 2016 · Last Man Club as Stearman Pilot
- 2016 · Back in the Day as Enzo
- 2015 · Sacred Blood as Detective Brennan
- 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 · Lionhead as Walter Powell
- 2013 · Gabrielle as Edward Sheehan
- 2013 · ICE Agent as Carlos Garcia
- 2013 · Along the Roadside as Jerry
- 2013 · Madoff: Made Off with America as Agent Kennedy
- 2012 · Beyond the Trophy as Cole Lambert
- 2012 · Cole Younger & The Black Train as Marshall Stallings
- 2011 · Not Another Not Another Movie as Lester Storm
- 2011 · The Forest as Lt. Brandon Ross
- 2011 · A Cold Day in Hell as U.S. Marshal Stallings
- 2010 · Corruption.Gov as Senator John Mordire
- 2009 · The Bleeding as Father Roy
- 2009 · Creepshow Raw: Insomnia as Barry
- 2009 · Gloves of Stone as Willie
- 2009 · Lost in the Woods as Stuart Bunka
- 2009 · Serbian Scars as Dreq
- 2009 · The Face is Familiar as Himself
- 2009 · Hired Gun as Dan Moeller
- 2009 · You Might As Well Live as Clinton Manitoba
- 2009 · Christmas Crash as Joseph Johnson
- 2008 · The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2008 · A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2008 · The Craft of Dirty Harry as Self
- 2008 · The Evolution of Clint Eastwood as Self
- 2007 · L.A. Dicks as Steven Miller
- 2006 · Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
- 2006 · Tarantino's Mind as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega (archive footage)
- 2006 · Southern Comfort as
- 2005 · Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood as
- 2004 · Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
- 2003 · Vampires Anonymous as Geno
- 2002 · The Real Deal as Baker Jacks
- 2002 · The Thief & the Stripper as Jimmie D.
- 2002 · Welcome to America as Special Agent Leon Fogel
- 2000 · The Price of Air as Mr. Ball
- 2000 · Bad Guys as Jay Peters
- 2000 · Luck of the Draw as Zippo
- 2000 · Voodoo Dawn as Frank Barlow
- 1999 · The Florentine as Whitey
- 1998 · Vengeance Unlimited as Mr. Chapel
- 1997 · The Girl Gets Moe as Donnelly
- 1997 · Catherine's Grove as Joe Mason
- 1994 · Season of Change as Randy Parker
- 1994 · Blue Tiger as Gun Salesman (uncredited)
- 1994 · Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. Blonde (archive footage)
- 1993 · Beyond the Law as Blood
- 1993 · A House in the Hills as Mickey
- 1992 · Baby Snatcher as Cal Hudson
- 1990 · The End of Innocence as Earl
- 1989 · Kill Me Again as Vince Miller
- 1987 · The Killing Time as Stu
- 1985 · Our Family Honor as Augie Danzig
- Future · Sara Sarita as
- 1982 · Against All Hope as Cecil Moe
- Future · Cookbook for Southern Housewives as Kingsley
- Future · The Witching Hour as