Hollywood on Thursday was mourning the loss of Michael Madsen, an actor best known for his menacing, often sadistic characters in Quentin Tarantino films including “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill: Vol. 2.”
He was 67 years old.
Madsen was found unresponsive in his home in Malibu, California, on Thursday morning and pronounced dead, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Watch Commander Christopher Jauregui said. Following news of Madsen’s passing, questions emerged online about what caused his death.
Madsen’s manager Ron Smith said cardiac arrest was the apparent cause of death.
Madsen’s career spanned more than 300 credits stretching back to the early 1980s, many in low-budget and independent films. He often played low-level thugs, gangsters and shady cops in small roles. Tarantino would use that identity, but make him a main character.
His torture of a captured police officer in Tarantino’s 1992 directorial debut “Reservoir Dogs,” in which Madsen’s black-suited bank robber Vic “Mr. Blonde” Vega severs the man’s ear while dancing to Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You” was an early career-defining moment for both director and actor.
He would become a Tarantino regular. He had a small role as the cowboy-hatted desert dweller Budd, a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, in 2003’s “Kill Bill: Vol. 1,” then a starring role the following year in the sequel, in which he battles with Uma Thurman’s protagonist The Bride and buries her alive.
Madsen also appeared in Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” and “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood.” He was an alternate choice to play the hit man role that revived John Travolta’s career in 1994’s “Pulp Fiction.” The character, Vincent Vega, is the brother of Madsen’s “Reservoir Dogs” robber in Tarantino’s cinematic universe.
Madsen was born in Chicago to a family of three children.
He performed on stage with the city’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company alongside actors including John Malkovich.
Madsen had six children. He had struggled in recent years after the 2022 death of one of his sons, Hudson.
“Losing a child is the hardest and most painful experience that can happen in this world,” Madsen said in an Instagram post last year.
“In the last two years Michael Madsen has been doing some incredible work with independent film including upcoming feature films ‘Resurrection Road,’ ‘Concessions and ’Cookbook for Southern Housewives,’ and was really looking forward to this next chapter in his life,” his managers Smith and Susan Ferris and publicist Liz Rodriguez said in a statement. “Michael was also preparing to release a new book called ‘Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems’ currently being edited.”
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