Michael Madsen, a habitual actor of Quentin Tarantino's films, are dead

- Author, Ali Abbas Ahmadi*
- Author's title, BBC News
3 julio 2025

Hollywood actor Michael Madsen was found lifeless at his home in California on Thursday morning.

The 67 -year -old interpreter was found unconscious by the authorities, who responded to a 911 call from his Malibu residence. Later his manager, Ron Smith, informed that he died of a cardiac arrest.

Madsen was a prolific actor, known for his roles in several films by director Quentin Tarantino, as Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, The Hateful Eight y Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In Reservoir Dogs, One of the most transcendental films of the 90s, Madsen played the psychotic thief Mister Blonde, who hit the public for a scene in which a policeman cut his ear while danced Stuck in the Middle With You de Stealers Wheel.

He also acted in other iconic films of that decade as Thelma & Louise, Donnie Brasco o Free Willy (“Liberen a Willy”).

“The strangest thing is when children recognize me for Free Willy And his parents recognize me for Reservoir Dogs. The children say: 'There is Glen!', And the parents respond: 'Don't approach that guy!'

Madsen, Thurman y Tarantino — Photo foot, Madsen together with actress Uma Thurman and the film director, Quentin Tarantino.

During a race that covered 40 years, Madsen also performed various television roles.

Both in the cinema and on television, he often made roles of law agents, such as sheriffs and detectives, as well as criminals, in addition to incarnating the character of a failure failed in the saga Kill Bill.

In recent years, he lent his voice to video games, such as Grand Theft Auto III and the saga Dishonored.

In addition, he published several poetry books and was working on a new one dedicated to his father entitled: Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems.

Family of actors

Michael Madsen was born in Chicago in September 1957. His father fought in World War II and later became a firefighter, and his mother was a filmmaker.

“When I was a boy my parents divorced and I could do nothing more than getting into trouble,” the actor said at the aforementioned ceremony of 2011.

During his youth, he worked in various works as a car mechanic, gardener and stretcher in a hospital, before becoming an actor.

Madsen married three times and four children survive, including actor Christian Madsen.

His sister, Virginia Madsen, is also an actress, known for several films, including Sidewaysfor which she was nominated for the Oscar awards and the Golden Globe.

“I'm going to miss my older brother,” she wrote in a statement for the middle Variety. In his words, he was “a poet disguised as outlaw. A father, a son, a brother: marked by the contradiction, tempered by a love that left their mark.”

In his private life, Madsen was involved in several conflicts that led him to clashes with the authorities.

Last year he was arrested under suspicion of domestic violence with his wife, Deanna Madsen. He requested the divorce a month later and requested a restriction order against him, accusing it of multiple cases of physical and verbal abuse.

On several occasions he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. And in 2012 he was arrested after a physical confrontation with one of his teenage children.

In 2022 he suffered the loss of his son Hudson, who committed suicide in Hawaii.

*With information from Ana Pais.