12 Terrible Actors Who've Somehow Made 200 Films

7. Michael Madsen

U.S. actor and president of the Champs-Elysees Film Festival Michael Madsen, gestures as he poses at the Plaza Athenee Hotel, in Paris, Wednesday June 6, 2012. The festival takes place to June 6 to 12. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Acting Credits: 278

Worst Film: Species 2

Best Film: Reservoir Dogs

Though Tarantino clearly likes him, Michael Madsen is the very definition of a one trick pony, and his only shtick is exactly what made his performance in Reservoir Dogs so good.

Unfortunately, when you realise the squinting intensity is just his natural face, his ability evaporates like smoke on the breeze.

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