Actor Michael Madsen, greatest identified for his roles in Kill Invoice and Reservoir Canine, has died at 67 years outdated.
In line with NBC 4 Los Angeles, he was pronounced lifeless on Thursday morning after being discovered unresponsive at his Malibu residence. In an e mail, Madsen’s supervisor, Ron Smith, confirmed he died from cardiac arrest.
“Within the final two years Michael Madsen has been performing some unbelievable work with impartial movie together with upcoming characteristic movies Resurrection Street, Concessions, and Cookbook for Southern Housewives, and was actually trying ahead to this subsequent chapter in his life,” reads an announcement from managers Susan Ferris and Ron Smith and publicist Liz Rodriguez.
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“Michael was additionally getting ready to launch a brand new guide known as Tears for My Father: Outlaw Ideas and Poems, presently being edited. Michael Madsen was one in every of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, who shall be missed by many.”
Born September twenty fifth, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, Madsen first labored as a mechanic and later as a paramedic till he attended a manufacturing of Of Mice and Males in 1980, staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Firm. After the play, Madsen sought out its star, a younger John Malkovich, who prompt he take appearing lessons.
A few months later, he was forged in one other Steppenwolf manufacturing of Of Mice and Males, taking part in a ranch hand named Carlson, who kills a blind canine. This set the tone for lots of the roles in his future profession, which included the sadistic Vic Vega/Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Canine and Budd in Kill Invoice Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
Madsen ceaselessly appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s movies. Along with Reservoir Canine and the Kill Invoice motion pictures, he performed “Grouch” Douglass/Joe Gage in The Hateful Eight and Sheriff Hackett in As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Different notable roles embrace Sonny Black in Donnie Brasco, Jimmy Lennox in Thelma & Louise, Detective Bob in Sin Metropolis, Bartholomew “Bump” Bailey in The Pure, and Preston “Press” Lennox within the first two Species movies. He additionally voiced characters in video video games equivalent to Grand Theft Auto III, Narc, and the Dishonored sequence.
