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Virginia Madsen
Highest Rated: 97% Sideways (2004)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Sep 11, 1961
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Actress Virginia Madsen finally had the role of a lifetime with her subtle, touching portrayal of a waitress and wine connoisseur in Alexander Payne's critically acclaimed "Sideways" (2004). Nominated for her first Academy Award, Madsen earned a large degree of respectability that had previously been lacking despite a long and varied career in film and on television. Prior to "Sideways," she went back and forth between movies like "Zombie High" (1987) and "Hot to Trot" (1988) to more interesting small screen fare like "Third Degree Burn" (HBO, 1989) and "Blue Tiger" (HBO, 1994). A turn to series television in the late 1990s, including a co-hosting job on "Unsolved Mysteries" (CBS/NBC, 1988-1999), as well as recurring stints on "Frasier" (NBC, 1993-2004) and "The Practice" (ABC, 1997-2004), helped Madsen branch out and put her talents on full display. But after "Sideways," she found herself at the top of her game, starring opposing top leading men like Harrison Ford and Jim Carrey, and finally enjoying the successful career many felt the actress had long deserved.
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Filmography
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 63% | Lola | Mona (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 75% | 43% | The Portrait | Mags (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 64% | 49% | One Day as a Lion | Valerie Brisky (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 83% | 89% | Give Me an A | Coach Judy (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 17% | 69% | Prey for the Devil | Dr. Peters (Character) | $19.8M | 2022 |
| 47% | 41% | Operation Christmas Drop | Congresswoman Bradford (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Spare Room | Nat (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 96% | 81% | 1985 | Eileen (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 67% | 73% | Burn Your Maps | Victoria (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 89% | 64% | Better Watch Out | Deandra (Character) | $20.3K | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Lost Boy | Laura Harris (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Burning Bodhi | Naomi (Character) | $3.3K | 2015 |
| 61% | 57% | Joy | Carrie (Character) | $56.4M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Dead Rising: Watchtower | Maggie (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success | Karen Thomas (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 54% | 48% | Walter | Karen (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 60% | 43% | All the Wilderness | Abigail Charm (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Last Keepers | Abigail Carver (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 22% | 36% | Jake Squared | Beth (Character) | $1.7K | 2013 |
| 38% | 34% | The Hot Flashes | Clementine Winks (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Anna Nicole | Virgie (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Patricia Cornwell's Hornet's Nest | Judy Hammer (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Crazy Kind of Love | Augusta (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 30% | 63% | The Magic of Belle Isle | Mrs. O'Neil (Character) | $100.9K | 2012 |
| 10% | 39% | Red Riding Hood | Suzette (Character) | $37.7M | 2011 |
| 0% | 27% | Father of Invention | Lorraine (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Know a Woman Like That |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2009 |
| 85% | 78% | Wonder Woman | Hippolyta (Voice) | - | 2009 |
| 19% | 31% | Amelia | Dorothy Binney Putnam (Character) | $14.2M | 2009 |
| 17% | 45% | The Haunting in Connecticut | Sara Campbell (Character) | $55.3M | 2009 |
| 34% | 37% | Diminished Capacity | Charlotte (Character) | $21.3K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Being Michael Madsen | Self | - | 2007 |
| 29% | No Score Yet | Ripple Effect |
Sherry (Character), Executive Producer |
$13.8K | 2007 |
| 58% | 49% | The Astronaut farmer | Audie (Character) | $11.0M | 2007 |
| 7% | 56% | The Number 23 |
Agatha Sparrow/ |
$35.1M | 2007 |
| 81% | 59% | A Prairie Home Companion | Dangerous Woman (Character) | $20.3M | 2006 |
| 19% | 37% | Firewall | Beth Stanfield (Character) | $48.7M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild | The Beast (Voice) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? | Cleopatra (Voice) | - | 2005 |
| 97% | 79% | Sideways | Maya (Character) | $71.5M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Brave New Girl | Wanda Lovell (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Tempted | Emma Burke (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Artworks | Emma Becker (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 39% | 41% | American Gun | Penny Tillman (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Just Ask My Children | Brenda Kniffen (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 40% | 78% | Louis L'Amour's Crossfire Trail | Anne Rodney (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Full Disclosure | Brenda Hopkins (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Almost Salinas | Clare (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Lying in Wait | Vera Miller (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | After Sex | Traci (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of Fortune | Ingrid Bast (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | The Florentine | Molly (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 17% | 28% | The Haunting | Jane (Character) | $91.2M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ballad of the Nightingale | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Ambushed | Lucy Monroe (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 82% | 78% | John Grisham's The Rainmaker | Jackie Lemanczyk (Character) | $45.9M | 1997 |
| 43% | 62% | Ghosts of Mississippi | Dixie DeLaughter (Character) | $13.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Your Luck | Kim (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 46% | 64% | The Prophecy | Katherine (Character) | $15.7M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Blue Tiger | Gina Hayes (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Bitter Vengeance | Annie Westford (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Caroline at Midnight | Susan Prince (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Linda | Linda Cowley (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story | Carolyn Warmus (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 79% | 63% | Candyman | Helen Lyle (Character) | $23.5M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Becoming Colette | Polaire (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 0% | 23% | Highlander II: The Quickening | Louise Marcus (Character) | $13.7M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Kills | Rebecca Bishop (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ironclads | Betty Stuart (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Victim of Love | Carla Simmons (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 71% | 49% | The Hot Spot | Dolly Harshaw (Character) | $1.2M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Heart of Dixie | Delia June Curry (Character) | $691.7K | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Third Degree Burn | Anne Scholes (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 50% | 38% | Mr. North | Sally Boffin (Character) | $1.1M | 1988 |
| 0% | 40% | Hot to Trot | Allison Rowe (Character) | $6.4M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Gotham | Rachel Carlyle (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dead Can't Lie | Rachel Carlyle (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 17% | 52% | Slamdance | Yolanda Caldwell (Character) | $125.3K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 7% | Zombie High | Andrea (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Long Gone | Dixie Lee Boxx (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Fire With Fire | Lisa (Character) | $3.3M | 1986 |
| 40% | 63% | Modern Girls | Kelly (Character) | $264.3K | 1986 |
| 38% | 75% | Creator | Barbara Spencer (Character) | $4.6M | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hearst and Davies Affair | Marion Davies (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 37% | 65% | Dune | Princess Irulan (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 47% | 71% | Electric Dreams | Madeline Robistat (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 29% | 49% | Class | Lisa (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unsolved Mysteries | Host | 1990 1999 2001 2023 |
| 92% | 73% | Swamp Thing | Maria Sunderland (Character) | 2019 |
| 95% | 89% | Elementary | Paige (Guest Star) | 2016 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair | Tamara Quinn (Character) | 2018 |
| 71% | 53% | Designated Survivor | Kimble Hookstraten (Guest Star) | 2016-2017 |
| 58% | 77% | American Gothic | Madeline Hawthorne (Character) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 2013 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dog Whisperer With Cesar Millan: Family Edition | Guest | 2016 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Beth Anne Rollins (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 65% | 87% | Witches of East End | Penelope Gardiner (Character) | 2013 |
| 73% | 90% | Hell on Wheels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 67% | 49% | The Event | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 33% | No Score Yet | Scoundrels | Cheryl West (Character) | 2010 |
| 89% | 89% | Monk | T.K. Jensen (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Guest | 2009 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Smith | Hope Stevens (Character) | 2006-2007 |
| 96% | No Score Yet | Boomtown | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 85% | No Score Yet | American Dreams |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2002-2003 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Dawson's Creek | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | Cassandra Stone (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 76% | 78% | Star Trek: Voyager | Kellin (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |