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Virginia Madsen

Talented actress Virginia Gayle Madsen made her film debut in Class (1983) which was filmed in her native Chicago. She has had a long and varied career in film with credits including Electric Dreams, Candyman (1992), Zombie High (1987) Third Degree Burn (1989), Blue Tiger (1994) and Sideway (2004). She is known for co-hosting Unsolved Mysteries, and recurring roles on Frasier, The Practice, American Dreams, Scoundrels, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Designated Survivor and American Gothic

English
Filmography

Red Riding Hood

2011
as Suzette

Joy

2015
as Carrie

The Number 23

2007
as Agatha Sparrow / Fabrizia

Dune

1984
as Princess Irulan

Operation Christmas Drop

2020
as Congresswoman Bradford

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

2005
as The Beast

Candyman

1992
as Helen Lyle

The Haunting

1999
as Jane

Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

2005
as Cleopatra (voice)

Better Watch Out

2016
as Deandra Lerner

Wonder Woman

2009
as Hippolyta (voice)

Prey for the Devil

2022
as Dr. Peters

Nobody Knows Anything!

2003
as Prison Lawyer

Cutlass

2007
as Robin

Just Ask My Children

2001
as Brenda Kniffen

Long Gone

1987
as Dixie Lee Boxx

The Magic of Belle Isle

2012
as Mrs. O'Neil

Mr. North

1988
as Sally Boffin

The Last Keepers

2013
as Abigail Carver

The Portrait

2023

Ironclads

1991
as Betty Stuart

Children of Fortune

2000
as Ingrid Bast

Her Smell

2019
as Ania Adamcyzk

Slam Dance

1987
as Yolanda Caldwell

Ambushed

1998
as Lucy Monroe

Grace Stirs Up Success

2015
as Mrs. Thomas

Diminished Capacity

2008
as Charlotte

Gotham

1988
as Rachel Carlyle

1985

2018
as Eileen

Fire with Fire

1986
as Lisa

American Gun

2002
as Penny Tillman

Almost Salinas

2001
as Clare

Blue Tiger

1994
as Gina Hayes

Crazy Kind of Love

2013
as Augusta

The Astronaut Farmer

2006
as Mrs Farmer

The Hearst and Davies Affair

1985
as Marion Davies

Just Your Luck

1996
as Kim

The Prophecy

1995
as Katherine Henley

Brave New Girl

2004

Spare Room

2018
as Nat

Lying in Wait

2001
as Vera Miller

Linda

1993
as Linda

One Day as a Lion

2023
as Valerie Brisky

Ripple Effect

2007
as Sherry

Jake Squared

2014
as Beth

Third Degree Burn

1989
as Anne Scholes

Love Kills

1991
as Rebecca Bishop

After Sex

2000
as Traci

Hornet's Nest

2012
as Judy Hammer

Ghosts of Mississippi

1996
as Dixie DeLaughter

Caroline at Midnight

1994
as Susan Prince

Lost Boy

2015
as Laura Harris

The Hot Spot

1990
as Dolly Harshaw

Firewall

2006
as Beth Stanfield

Sideways

2004
as Maya

The Rainmaker

1997
as Jackie Lemancyzk

Hot to Trot

1988
as Allison Rowe

The Hot Flashes

2013
as Clementine Winks

The Apocalypse Watch

1997
as Karin De Vries

Artworks

2003
as Emma Becker

Returning Lily

2003
as Emma Burke

Crossfire Trail

2001
as Anne Rodney

Electric Dreams

1984
as Madeline Robistat

Class

1983
as Lisa

Creator

1985
as Barbara Spencer

Victim Of Love

1991
as Carla Simmons

A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story

1992
as Carolyn Warmus

Walter

2015
as Karen

Anna Nicole

2013
as Virgie Arthur

Bitter Vengeance

1994
as Annie Westford

Modern Girls

1986
as Kelly

Heart of Dixie

1989
as Delia June Curry

Highlander 2: The Quickening

1991
as Louise Marcus

Burning Bodhi

2016
as Naomi

Ballad of the Nightingale

1999
as Mo Lewis

Full Disclosure

2001
as Brenda Hopkins

Burn Your Maps

2019
as Victoria

The Haunting in Connecticut

2009
as Sara Campbell

All the Wilderness

2014
as Abigail Charm

The Florentine

1999
as Molly

Becoming Colette

1992
as Polaire

A Prairie Home Companion

2006
as Dangerous Woman

Zombie High

1987
as Andrea Miller

Father of Invention

2010
as Lorraine

Dead Rising: Watchtower

2015
as Maggie

Producer

Movie Ripple Effect 2007
Movie I Know a Woman Like That 2009