Virginia Madsen
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Actress Virginia Madsen (born 11 September 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) played Kellin in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Unforgettable".
Madsen is currently best known for her Academy Award-nominated performance as Maya in the 2004 dramedy Sideways. She is also famous for her starring role in the 1992 horror thriller Candyman, in which she co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Tony Todd, Tom Towles, and Vanessa Williams.
Madsen made her film debut in 1983, co-starring with Star Trek Generations actor Alan Ruck in the comedy Class. The following year, she played Princess Irulan in the cult science fiction epic Dune. Also starring in this film were Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Patrick Stewart, fellow Star Trek: Voyager guest actor Brad Dourif, and Star Trek: Enterprise guest star Dean Stockwell.
She would go on to star in such films as 1985's Creator (co-starring David Ogden Stiers, Ian Wolfe, and Jeff Corey), 1986's Fire with Fire (with her Voyager co-star Tim Russ), 1986's Modern Girls (with Clayton Rohner, Cameron Thor, Stuart Charno, and Mark Holton), 1987's Slam Dance (with another Voyager co-star, Robert Beltran, as well as Rosalind Chao, Herta Ware, and John Fleck), 1988's Mr. North (with David Warner), 1988's Hot to Trot (with Jim Metzler, Donald Hotton, Robert Towers, George D. Wallace, and Vyto Ruginis), 1989's Heart of Dixie (with Kurtwood Smith and Barbara Babcock), 1990's The Hot Spot (with William Sadler and Leon Rippy), and 1994's Caroline at Midnight (with Clayton Rohner, Zach Galligan, Jay Baker, Doug Wert, and Kirk Baily).
In 1996, she co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn, Richard Riehle, Bill Cobbs, Thomas Kopache, and the late Brock Peters in the drama Ghosts of Mississippi. The following year, she and her Dune co-star and fellow Trek guest actor Dean Stockwell had roles in the legal drama The Rainmaker. And in 2003, she appeared in a comedy called Nobody Knows Anything!, as did Paul Dooley and Ed Lauter. More recent films include the Harrison Ford thriller Firewall and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion in 2006, and Ripple Effect with John Billingsley and Denise Crosby, The Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton, and the Joel Schumacher thriller The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey and featuring Tiffany Turner, in 2007.
Besides her appearance on Star Trek: Voyager, Madsen has also made guest appearances on several other television shows, including recurring roles on Moonlighting, The Practice, and Frasier (which starred Kelsey Grammer). She has also starred in numerous made-for-TV movies, most notably Long Gone in 1986 (with Henry Gibson), A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story in 1992 (with Robert Picardo and Chris Sarandon), Bitter Vengeance in 1994 (with Tim Russ and Bruce Greenwood), and Just Ask My Children in 2001 (with Casey Biggs, John Billingsley, and Armin Shimerman).
