Madsen married director Danny Huston in1989.
After graduating high school, Madsen attended the Harand Camp Adult Theater Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and the Ted Liss Acting Studio in Chicago.
They got divorced in 1992.
When Virginia was little, her parents got divorced.
Her other film appearances include Long Gone 1987 , Gotham 1988 , The Hot Spot 1990 , Ghosts of Mississippi 1996 , The Rainmaker 1997 , A Prairie Home Companion 2006 , The Haunting in Connecticut 2009 , Red Riding Hood 2011 and All the Wilderness 2014.
She has made many films like I Know a Woman Like That and Fighting Gravity.