Date of Birth - 16 August 1958, Bay City, Michigan, USA
The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops re-inventing herself,
Madonna has sold tens of millions of records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.
Madonna film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from
film critics, and the
films have usually had tepid, if any, success at the box office.
Born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone in August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York in the late 1970s and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called "Breakfast Club" and began working with then boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer / DJ Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest, as they say, is history. The 1980s was
Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multi-million-selling albums, and her musical and fashion influence on young women was felt around the globe.
Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget
films marketed to a teenage audience:
A Certain Sacrifice (1985) and
Vision Quest (1985). However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette
Madonna's next effort with then husband Sean Penn
Shanghai Surprise (1986), was savaged by critics, although the resilient
star managed to somewhat improve her standing with her next two
films, the offbeat
Who's That Girl (1987) (although she did receive decidedly mixed reviews, they weren't as negative as those of her previous effort) and the quirky Damon Runyon inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989). The big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (1990) had her playing bad girl "Breathless Mahoney" flirting with Warren Beatty but the epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role,
Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in the highly enjoyable A League of Their Own (1992), a story about female baseball players during WWII. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the boring whodunit
Body of Evidence (1993), an obvious (and lame) attempt to cash in on the success of the
sexy Sharon Stone thriller
Basic Instinct (1992).Several other minor screen roles followed, then
Madonna starred as Eva Peron in
Evita (1996), a fairly well received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical. The
Material Girl stayed away from the
movie cameras for several years, returning to co-star in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002). If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (2002).
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