Michael Madsen was arrested in Malibu on Saturday morning on charges of domestic battery following “a disagreement between” the actor and his wife, DeAnna Madsen.
Authorities based at the Malibu/Lost Hill Sheriff’s Station responded to a call shortly after midnight on Aug. 17. The 66-year-old actor was arrested for a domestic battery misdemeanor under Penal Code 243(e)(1), meaning force or violence was allegedly used against a cohabitant. The actor was booked at the Station at 1:40 a.m.
“It was a disagreement between Michael and his wife, which we hope resolves positively for them both,” a representative for Madsen said in a statement to Variety. Madsen is no longer in custody after posting a $20,000 bond.
Madsen is best known as a regular star in the films of Quentin Tarantino. The actor made a splash in the director’s 1992 debut thriller “Reservoir Dogs,” which featured Madsen as Mr. Blonde, the live-wire criminal that famously danced to Stealer Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You” while mutilating a hostage police officer captured during a heist gone wrong. The actor has played roles across Tarantino’s films, playing the washed-up assassin Budd in “Kill Bill Vol. 1” and “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” the deceitful cowboy Joe Gage in “The Hateful Eight” and a conspicuous cameo in the director’s latest, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.”
Madsen has been a genre regular over his career, with credits including “Thelma and Louise,” “Donnie Brasco,” “Sin City,” “Mulholland Falls,” “Wyatt Earp” and “Iguana.” In recent years, he has worked steadily across numerous direct-to-video productions.