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11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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5' 5"
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Virginia Madsen
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  • Has child with Antonio Sabato Jr. named Jack (b. 6 August 1994).
  • Her brother, actor Michael Madsen, refuses to see any of her movies in which she appears naked.
  • Sister was an actress.
  • Daughter of Cal Madsen (a firefighter) and Elaine (a poet). They got divorced in 1968.
  • Was once engaged to actor Bill Campbell. They went to Hollywood together to pursue acting careers and lived in Pacific Palisades. Graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, with her best friend, actress Rusty Schwimmer. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Liz Phair. Attended the Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago and Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
  • Former daughter-in-law of John Huston and Zoe Sallis; former sister-in-law of Tony Huston, Anjelica Huston, and Pat Delaney (as the wife of Tony Huston); also former sister-in-law of Georganne LaPiere, ex-wife of her brother Michael Madsen and half-sister of Cher.
  • Her father's parents (Soren and Anna Marie Madsen) came to America from Denmark in the early 1900s. Virginia Madsen is half-Danish.
  • Both eyes are different. Left eye is part brown and part green and right eye is all green.
  • Her father is Danish-American; her mother is Irish-American and Aboriginal American.
  • Aunt of Michael Madsens children Christian, Cody, Max, Calvn and Hudson
  • Sister-in-law of De Anna Morgan
  • Former sister-in-law of Jeannine Bisignano
  • Is allergic to bees.
  • In an interview, she admitted that she was sobbing so hard at the end of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) when Spock died, that she had to go home as soon as the movie was over.
  • Claims that she was hypnotized for some of the scenes in Candyman (1992).
  • She has an older sister named Cheri. She's the owner of a restaurant in Wisconsin.
  • Studied in New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illionis.
  • Studied at Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago and at Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Wisconsin.
 
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