Actor Michael Madsen, known face of Hollywood and protagonist of films such as Donnie Brasco And, he died this Thursday at his home in Malibu, south of Los Angeles (California). He has confirmed it, although the medium has been the first to inform about it. Madsen was 67 years old.
According to the Tabloid, with good sources among the police, someone unidentified called emergency services early in the morning, where agents from the Sheriff’s office attended. The actor was found in his home and there was declared dead, about half past eight. “We understand is that Michael had a cardiac arrest and was found unanswered at his home in Malibu this early morning,” said his agents in a statement to the press.
Madsen was a prolific veteran of Hollywood, with a career of more than 300 titles that dates back to the eighties, when he began to make television series as Hospital, Corruption in Miami o The honor of the Mackey. In the nineties, he made appearances in titles as well known as Liberad a Willy, Thelma y Louise, Wyatt Earp And of course in Donnie Brascowhere I played Sonny.
But probably his most popular roles came from the hand of Quentin Tarantino, who opted for him to Reservoir Dogs (1992), for the role of Mr. Blonde; For the first part of Kill Billin 2003; for The hateful eightin 2015; and for Once upon a time in … Hollywoodin 2019. However, he always assured that it was not that famous hard guy, of a chin always disheveled and cross -looking, which gave life in so many films.
“I am not like that,” he said in. “That hard guy of the movies is not my person. I am afraid and I do not know why. I am, above all, a thinker, an observer of society … When I work as an actor I have a lonely life. I spend my life in hotels, in trains, in planes … I am like a kind of tramp. I have traveled the world and I have seen things that have not seen many people, which makes me feel lucky. In my lonely and itinerant life. I wrote them to publish them.
In recent years, Madsen had been more present in the press for his personal problems than for his work. In August last year, he was arrested in Los Angeles for a problem of violence against his wife, Deanna Madsen, who called the police to inform that her husband had pushed her after a fight and left her out of her home. The interpreter had to go through the dungeons and was released after paying $ 20,000.
Michael’s marriage with Deanna was the third for the actor, who had seven children of her different relationships. One of his toughest moments arrived in January 2022, when his son Hudson died. The young man, who was 26 years old, committed suicide, hitting a shot in Oahu, in Hawaii, where he lived with his wife. “I’m in shocksince my son, with whom I talked a few days ago, told me he was happy; My last text message was’ I love you dad, “shared with the newspaper days after the boy’s death.” I didn’t see any sign of depression. It is very tragic and very sad. I am trying to make sense of everything and understand what happened, “he said then.” I had the typical problems of life that people have with finance, but wanted a family. He looked towards his future, so he is amazing. I can’t understand what has happened. ”
Hudson was the eldest son of Michael and Deanna, who also share two other boys, Calvin and Luke. But before, at the end of the seventies, he had a daughter, named Jessica. In addition, in the early eighties, Madsen married Georganne Lapiere, Cher’s sister, with whom he was married four years, between 1984 and 1988. After divorce, he married Jeannine Bisignano, in 1991, with whom he had two other children, Christian and Max. Madsen and Bisignano divorced in 1995. It was only a year later when he married Deanna, then surname Morgan, in Jamaica. With her she had her three young children.
Madsen leaves several unfinished projects. “In the last two years, Michael Madsen had been doing incredible work in independent cinema, including the next feature films Resurrection Road, Concessions y Cookbook for Southern Housewivesand I was looking forward to this next chapter of his life, ”said his agents in the statement.“ He was also preparing the launch of a new book entitled Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems [Lágrimas por mi padre: pensamientos y poemas]currently in the process of editing. “” He was one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, we will miss it. “
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