Here's a nice link in WIkipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Madsen) to Virginia's page there which will tell you that she was born in 1961, Chicago. An Emmy award winning poet who works with PBS, of Danish extraction and has an actor brother, Michael Madsen. Virginia received an Academy Award nomination for Maya in Sideways in 2004 as well as a Golden Globe that same year.