Sunday, September 12, 2004

Weekend Birthdays: Virginia Madsen, Rachel Ward


Rising to popularity in the 1980s, Virginia Madsen seems to have adopted a lower profile than older brother Michael lately. I remember her best from the made-for-cable movies Third Degree Burn (1989), in which she plays a femme fatale to Treat Williams's private eye, and Crossfire Trail (2001), in which she plays the widow of a man to whom gunfighter Tom Selleck had made a promise. Madsen turned 41 yesterday.



I first saw Rachel Ward in repeats of Sharky's Machine on WPIX. All this time I thought she was Australian, but checking IMdb, she was born in England. She has, however, been married to Aussie Bryan Brown since '83. She turns 47 today.

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