Michael Madsen, finest recognized for his roles in Reservoir Canines and Kill Invoice, died on Thursday morning. He was 67.
Madsen was discovered unresponsive by deputies responding to a 911 name at his Malibu residence and he was pronounced lifeless at 8:25 a.m., a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division spokesperson advised The Hollywood Reporter.
Police added that no foul play is suspected and Madsen’s dying is believed to be from pure causes.
Liz Rodriguez, Madsen’s consultant at EMR Media Leisure, advised the outlet “we perceive Michael had a cardiac arrest.”
Madsen’s managers, Smith and Susan Ferris, issued a press release after his dying.
“Within the final two years Michael Madsen has been doing a little unimaginable work with impartial movie, together with upcoming characteristic movies Resurrection Highway, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives, and was actually trying ahead to his subsequent chapter in his life,” they mentioned.
“Michael was additionally getting ready to launch a brand new e-book referred to as Tears For My Father: Outlaw Ideas and Poems, presently being edited. Michael Madsen was one among Hollywood’s most iconic actors, who will likely be missed by many.”
The actor’s sister, Virginia Madsen, shared a press release to Selection following his dying.
“My brother Michael has left the stage,” Virginia wrote. “He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother — etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.”
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“We’re not mourning a public determine,” she continued. “We’re not mourning a delusion — however flesh and blood and ferocious coronary heart. Who stormed via life loud, sensible, and half on hearth. Who leaves us echoes — gruff, sensible, unrepeatable — half legend, half lullaby.”
“I’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him. I’ll miss the boy he was earlier than the legend; I miss my massive brother. Thanks to everybody reaching out with love and reminiscence. In time, we’ll share how we plan to have a good time his life — however for now, we keep shut, and let the silence say what phrases can’t,” she added.
Madsen’s profession included greater than 300 credit, together with roles in Donnie Brasco, Thelma & Louise, Free Willy, Sin Metropolis and Die One other Day.
His most memorable display second might have been the sadistic torture of a captured police officer — whereas dancing to Stealers Wheel’s Caught within the Center with You — as Mr. Blonde in 1992’s Reservoir Canines.
Madsen started his performing profession on the Steppenwolf Theatre Firm in Chicago and appeared in Of Mice and Males. In 1982, he performed a cop within the movie WarGames, directed by John Badham.
He went on to turn out to be a Quentin Tarantino common, showing within the Kill Invoice movies, The Hateful Eight and As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantino and Michael Madsen attend the ‘Reservoir Canines’ twenty fifth Anniversary Screening in the course of the 2017 Sundance Movie Pageant at Eccles Middle Theatre on Jan. 27, 2017 in Park Metropolis, Utah.
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Throughout a handprint ceremony on the TCL Chinese language Theatre in November 2020, Madsen mirrored on his first go to to Hollywood within the early Nineteen Eighties.
“I bought out and I walked round and I seemed and I questioned if there have been sometime a way that that was going to be part of me. And I didn’t know as a result of I didn’t know what I used to be going to do at that time with myself,” he mentioned. “I may have been a bricklayer. I may have been an architect. I may have been a rubbish man. I may have been nothing. However I bought fortunate. I bought fortunate as an actor.”
Michael Madsen attends the Hand and Footprint Ceremony for Michael Madsen at TCL Chinese language Theatre on Nov. 16, 2020 in Hollywood, Calif.
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Along with movie, Madsen additionally performed voice roles in video video games like Grand Theft Auto III, Crime Boss: Rockay Metropolis and the Dishonored sequence.
The Kill Invoice actor was additionally a broadcast poet, with collections together with Burning in Paradise and Anticipating Rain.
Madsen was married thrice, to Normal Hospital actor Georganne LaPiere from 1984 to 1988, actor Jeannine Bisignano from 1991 to 1995 and his estranged spouse DeAnna Madsen since 1996. He’s survived by his 4 kids, together with actor Christian Madsen.
— With recordsdata from The Related Press
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