Actor Michael Madsen, known face of Hollywood and protagonist of films such as Kill Bill, Donnie Brasco y Reservoir Dogshas died this Thursday at his home in Malibu, south of Los Angeles (California). He has confirmed it The Hollywood Reporteralthough the environment TMZ He has been the first to inform about it. Madsen was 67 years old.
According to El Tabloid, with good sources among the police, someone unidentified called emergency services early in the morning, where agents from the office of the office of the office sheriff. The American actor was found in his home and there was declared dead, about half past eight. “The hypothesis we work with is that Michael had a cardiac arrest,” police officers have said in a statement to the press.
Madsen was a prolific veteran of Hollywood, with a career of more than 300 titles that dates back to the eighties, when he began to make television series as Hospital, Corruption in Miami o The honor of the Mackey. In the nineties, he had appearances in titles as well known as Liberad a Willy, Thelma y Louise, Wyatt Earp And, of course, in Donnie Brascowhere I played Sonny.
But his most popular titles came from Quentin Tarantino: he opted for him to Reservoir Dogs (1992) in the role of Mr. Blonde; in the first part of Kill Bill2003; in The hateful eight2015; And he also had him in Once upon a time in … Hollywood2019. Although those were their main roles, Madsen continued working on films smaller than a tireless pace, with an average of six or eight films a year, most of them with hero or secondary action papers, such as sheriffs, General or detectives.
In recent years he continued working without stopping. In fact, his card on the IMDB film portal throws that he was preparing no less than 18 projects, although in many of them the filming had not yet begun. However, he always assured that it was not that famous hard guy, a chin always unleashed and cross -looking, to which he gave life in so many films.
“I am not like that,” he said in an interview in the country in 2007, within the framework of the European Film Festival in Seville. Madsen often passed through Spain. “That hard guy of movies is not my person. I fear and I don’t know why. I am, above all, a thinker, an observer of society. When I work as an actor I have a lonely life. I spend time in hotels, trains, planes … I am like a kind of vagabond. I have traveled the world and I have seen things that many people have not seen, which makes me feel lucky I wrote to publish them.
Brother and husband of actresses – his sister, Virginia Madsen, is also an interpreter -, the actor has always been under the look of the spotlights. But in recent years he had been more present in the press for issues and personal problems than for his work. In 2012 he was arrested by the police for driving drunk; In August 2019 he suffered a similar arrest, which made him spend four days in prison (and five years on probation) after having taken his car after drinking alcohol, which made him have an accident in Malibu. In February 2022 he was arrested for entering a private property: he spent a couple of hours at the hospital and many others at the police station and was released.
In August of last year, Madsen was arrested in Los Angeles for a problem of violence against his wife, Deanna Madsen, who called the police to inform that her husband had pushed her after a fight and left her out of her home. The interpreter had to go through the dungeons and was released after paying $ 20,000 (17,000 euros) of bail.
Michael’s marriage with Deanna was the third for the actor, who had seven children of her different relationships. One of his toughest moments arrived in January 2022, when his son Hudson died. The young man, who was 26 years old, committed suicide, hitting a shot in Oahu, in Hawaii, where he lived with his wife. “I’m in shocksince my son, with whom I talked a few days ago, told me he was happy; His last text message was: ‘I love you, dad, ”shared with the newspaper Los Angeles Times days after the boy’s death. “I didn’t see any sign of depression. It is very tragic and sad. I am trying to make sense of everything and understand what happened,” he said then.
Hudson was the eldest son of Michael and Deanna (also actress), who also share two other boys, Calvin and Luke. But, before, at the end of the seventies, he had a daughter, Jessica. In addition, in the early eighties, Madsen married Georganne Lapiere, Cher’s sister, with whom he spent four years, between 1984 and 1988. After divorce, he married, in 1991, with Jeannine Bisignano, actress and producer, with whom he had two other children, Christian and Max. Madsen and Bisignano divorced in 1995. It was only a year later when he married Deanna, then surname Morgan, in Jamaica. With her she had her three young children.
Madsen leaves several unfinished projects. “In the last two years, Michael Madsen had been doing incredible work in independent cinema, including the next feature films Resurrection Road, Concessions y Cookbook for Southern Housewivesand I was looking forward to this next chapter of his life, ”said his agents in the statement.“ He was also preparing the launch of a new book entitled Tears for My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems (tears for my father: thoughts and poems)currently in the process of editing “:” He was one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood, we will miss it. “