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Virginia Madsen Biography (2)

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Virginia Madsen received rave reviews for her Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated performance in Alexander Payne's 2004 hit film Sideways, for which she also earned an Independent Spirit Award.

In 2006, Madsen starred in director Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly; and opposite Harrison Ford in the action thriller Firewall.

She will next be seen in the mystery thriller The Number 23, with Jim Carrey, for director Joel Schumacher.

Among Madsen's numerous credits are roles in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker, with Matt Damon; Rob Reiner's Ghosts Of Mississippi, with Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods; the cult classic Candyman, with Kasi Lemmons; Hot Spot, directed by Dennis Hopper; HBO's first feature Long Gone; and David Lynch's Dune. She also starred in the independent features Almost Salinas, opposite John Mahoney, and American Gun, opposite James Coburn.


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