Reservoir Canines actor Michael Madsen dies aged 67

Hollywood actor Michael Madsen died in his California residence on Thursday morning, US media reported. He was 67.

He was discovered unresponsive by authorities responding to a 911 name at his Malibu residence and pronounced lifeless at 08:25 native time (15:25 GMT), in response to The Hollywood Reporter.

He’s believed to have died of cardiac arrest, in response to a consultant.

Madsen was a prolific actor, greatest identified for his roles within the Quentin Tarantino motion pictures Reservoir Canines, Kill Invoice: Vol. 2, The Hateful Eight and As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In Reservoir Canines, one of many seminal motion pictures of the Nineteen Nineties, he performed the thief Mr Blonde, described by fellow characters as “psycho”, and shocked audiences in a scene the place he minimize off a policeman’s ear.

Throughout a profession spanning 4 many years, Madsen additionally took on quite a lot of television roles.

In each television and movie, he usually portrayed the regulation enforcers like sheriffs and detectives, in addition to the regulation breakers, reminiscent of a washed-out hitman within the Kill Invoice franchise.

Lately, he lent his voices to video video games, together with Grand Theft Auto III and the Dishonored sequence.

Michael Madsen was born in Chicago in September 1957. His father was a Navy veteran of World Conflict Two who later grew to become a firefighter, and his mom was a filmmaker.

He was the brother of Virginia Madsen, who is understood for a number of motion pictures together with Sideways, for which she was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.

He was married 3 times, and is survived by 4 youngsters, together with actor Christian Madsen.

Madsen divorced his spouse of 28 years, DeAnna, in 2024, over the demise of their son Hudson, in response to Individuals journal.

“My brother Michael has left the stage,” his sister Virginia wrote in a press release to Selection.

“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.”