Madsen at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
American actor Michael Madsen (1957 – 2025) has appeared in over 300 film and television productions since 1982.[ 1] Madsen made his screen debut in the film Against All Hope (1982), a film made for prison inmates.[ 2] Next year, he appeared in the commercially successful WarGames , which grossed $125 million worldwide.
According to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and film industry data website The Numbers , his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films Kill Me Again (1989), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Sin City (2005), Scary Movie 4 (2006), The Garden Left Behind (2019), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and QT8: The First Eight (2019).[ 3] [ 4]
Filmography
Film
Key
†
Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released
Television
Music videos
Video games
Documentary
Year
Title
Ref.
1998
Steve McQueen: The King of Cool
2002
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2005
Bullets Over Hollywood
2019
QT8: The First Eight
[ 4]
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