Virginia
MadsenAge: 48
Accolades: Nominated
for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her supporting role in 2004's winery
romance "
Sideways."
TV: Madsen is
currently starring in ABC's summer series "
Scoundrels." She plays
the matriarch in a family of petty criminals. Madsen
... morealso played opposite Ray Liotta in the short-lived CBS
crime drama "Smith"
(2006-2007).
On working in TV: "I didn't like the kind of
movies I was making, I didn't like my career, which seemed to be on this train
that was just speeding in the wrong direction, so I had to stop
everything ... and it's taken me 10 years to be where I
want."
Video: See clips and full episodes of
'Scoundrels' Close