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Christian Madsen

1990-02-08 (34 years old) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Christian Madsen was born in 1990 in Los Angeles to actors Michael Madsenand Jeannine Bisignano. He began acting at the age of ten, when he appeared in a small role in one of his father's films, and spent time on the set of a number of other films, including Free Willy and The Getaway. His grandmother, filmmaker Elaine Madsen, encouraged him to pursue a career in acting after watching his performances in high school theater. His parents divorced when he was a child and he subsequently "bounced around a lot" between his parents' homes in Malibu, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Fe, and Montana. He eventually moved in with his grandmother when he was 17, and she took him to the Actors Studio and introduced him to the head of its Hollywood branch, Martin Landau. Madsen's early film career consisted mainly of small roles with his father and independent films. He took on other jobs while continuing to audition for acting roles. He had been auditioning without any successes for over two years and was about to be evicted from his Los Angeles apartment when he won a role in Divergent, a film adaptation of Veronica Roth's young adult novel of the same name. After filming Divergent, Madsen was cast in the lead role of the upcoming independent film Prism, in which he plays a young man who is reunited with his amnesiac father after 15 years. In 2014, he also appeared in Palo Alto, a drama film directed by Gia Coppola, and he has been cast in Jack Squared.

Movies

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The Other Side of Fortune
0 %|Jul 27, 2023
Crime, Drama
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Red Handed
50 %|Nov 4, 2020
Thriller, Horror
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Mr. Church
74 %|Sep 16, 2016
Drama
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Manson's Lost Girls
55 %|Feb 6, 2016
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Prism
77 %|Apr 4, 2015
Drama, Mystery
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King Jack
65 %|Apr 1, 2015
Drama
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Palo Alto
61 %|May 9, 2014
Drama
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Divergent
69.16 %|Mar 14, 2014
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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In Time
69.72 %|Oct 27, 2011
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
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Lost in the Woods
50 %|Sep 25, 2009
Family, Action, Drama, Adventure
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Clear Lake, WI
28 %|Jan 1, 2009
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
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Eyes Front
0 %|Feb 19, 2008
Thriller, Mystery

Series

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Carl Weber's The Family Business
85 %|Nov 13, 2018
Drama, Crime