Virginia Madsen
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"Virginia Madsen" is an American film actress and producer. She made her film debut in Class (film)/Class (1983), which was filmed in her native Chicago. She soon moved to Los Angeles, and was cast in a series of successful movies for the teenage audience, including Electric Dreams (film)/Electric Dreams, Modern Girls, and Fire with Fire (1986 film)/Fire with Fire. In 1984, David Lynch cast her in Dune (film)/Dune as Princess Irulan.

She is most known for her role as Helen Lyle in Candyman (film)/Candyman (1992); and for her performance as Maya in Alexander Payne's film Sideways (2004), for which she received numerous awards, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture/Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her other film appearances include Long Gone (film)/Long Gone, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Hot Spot, Gotham (film)/Gotham, The Rainmaker (1997 film)/The Rainmaker, A Prairie Home Companion (film)/A Prairie Home Companion, and Red Riding Hood (2011 film)/Red Riding Hood.

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I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

We've been doing quite a bit of Q&As where maybe one or more of us go and we speak after the film.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

He's really sharp and I find him to be an extremely observant person. He watches people and he listens to people, and he likes actors. He likes working with actors. He likes his crew, and so he creates an atmosphere on his set that is really conducive to our creativity - and the crew's, as well.

I saw her when she was like 10-years-old in "The Barbara Mandrell Story," which is pretty bizarre since it was on in Canada the first week we were there... so strange. I knew her face. I kind of remembered her, but I didn't know anything about her family.

To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?

I mean, sometimes people get into big debates. Like when we were in Washington, big debating audiences. Debates about women and men, men and women, what's it all about. I'll tell ya. Sometimes they get into a bit of man-bashing and I always try to go, "Hey, you know what you guys? That's not really what it's about."

I just find it so refreshing to work with a young person who is that professional and that focused on doing a good job... really responsible.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.