Virginia Madsen - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

Early in her career, Madsen gained attention playing glamorous companions of larger-than-life men in several telefilms. As actress Marion Davies, she played opposite Robert Mitchum as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in "The Hearst and Davies Affair" (ABC, 1985). Madsen made for a golden blonde version of the historically dark and brooding Claretta Petacci opposite George C. Scott's Italian dictator in the miniseries "Mussolini: The Untold Story" (NBC, 1985). She was a more apt choice to play a tough-as-nails beauty queen in "Long Gone" (HBO, 1987), a well regarded comedy-drama about a minor league baseball team in the 1950s. Madsen's sporadic feature career has been uneven, usually playing unremarkable leads in minor movies. Her first major screen credit was Princess Irulan in David Lynch's overblown and perversely obscure sci-fi epic, "Dune" (1984). She was commendable opposite Anthony Edwards in "Mr. North" (1988), directed by her then-husband Danny Huston. 

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