Although she garnered some attention at the outset of her Hollywood career, Virginia Madsen found her star eclipsed in the 1990s by her older brother Michael's jolting, thuggish performances for director Quentin Tarantino. After landing a plum role in the acclaimed 2004 indie Sideways, however, Madsen was showered with the kind of praise she'd been denied for nearly two decades in the business.A native of Chicago, IL, and the daughter of a PBS documentarian, Madsen and her brother learned their trade in city theater productions and summer performance camps. She made her way to Hollywood in the early '80s with her then-fianc