Madonna filmography

American entertainer Madonna has worked in twenty-six feature films (twenty-one as an actress), nine short films, three theatrical plays, ten television episodes, and appeared in sixteen commercials. In 1979, she made her acting debut in the low-budget feature A Certain Sacrifice. Its commercial release in 1985 coincided with the success of her second studio album, Like a Virgin.[1]That same year, she made a cameo appearance as a club singer in the film Vision Quest; she also garnered commercial and critical success for the title role in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan.[2][3] Madonna followed it with a leading role in the adventure drama Shanghai Surprise (1986), with her then-husband, actor Sean Penn. The film was panned by critics, and Madonna received her first Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.[4] Her next films such as Who's That Girl (1987) and Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) were critical and commercial failures.[5][6] In 1986, she made her theatrical debut in David Rabe's Goose and Tom-Tom and her first commercial for Mitsubishi in Japan.[7][8] She starred in the 1989 commercial for Pepsi-Cola alongside her song "Like a Prayer". Due to the controversy surrounding the song's music video, the commercial was revoked and her contract with Pepsi-Cola was cancelled.[9]
In 1990, Madonna starred as Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy, directed by Warren Beatty and based on Chester Gould's comic strip.[10] She received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress.[11] Beatty later appeared in her 1991 documentary, Madonna: Truth or Dare, which showed behind the scenes of her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. It was the highest-grossing documentary of all time at that point.[12] She also received positive reviews for her role in A League of Their Own (1992), which was centered on a women's baseball team during World War II.[13] In 1993, Madonna starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence, which performed poorly at the box office.[14] Her subsequent films saw Madonna take on smaller roles, including a singing telegram girl in Blue in the Face (1995), a witch in Four Rooms (1995), and a phone sex company owner in Spike Lee's Girl 6 (1996).[15] Madonna starred as Eva Perón in the 1996 film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita. Her performance was acclaimed by critics and won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[16]
Madonna was again received negatively for her leading role as Abbie in John Schlesinger's film The Next Best Thing (2000).[17] Her first big screen collaboration, with her then-husband director Guy Ritchie, was Swept Away(2002).[18] A remake of Lina Wertmüller's Italian film of the same name, it was as a commercial and critical failure.[19] Swept Away was nominated for seven Golden Raspberry Awards, winning five, including Worst Actress for Madonna.[20] She had a cameo appearance in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and sang its theme song.[21] The next year, Madonna appeared in the television sitcom Will & Grace's episode "Dolls and Dolls".[22] In 2008, Madonna made her directorial debut with Filth and Wisdom, as well as producing and writing I Am Because We Are, a documentary on the problems faced by Malawians.[23][24] The latter was honored with a Do Something Awardby VH1.[25] Her second directorial effort, W.E., was released in 2011. A biographical film about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the film was critically and commercially unsuccessful.[26][27] She also directed the 17-minute film secretprojectrevolution with Steven Klein in 2013. Dealing with artistic freedom and human rights, the short film was distributed by BitTorrent.[28] Madonna's acting career has attracted a largely negative reception from critics. Stephanie Zacharek from Time stated: "[Madonna] seems wooden and unnatural as an actress, and it's tough to watch, because she's clearly trying her damnedest."[19]
== Feature films ==
Title 	Year	Credit(s) 	Role 	Director(s) 	US box office	Ref.
A Certain Sacrifice 	1985	Actress 	Bruna 	Stephen Jon Lewicki	N/A 	[1]
Vision Quest 	1985	Actress 	Club singer (cameo) 	Harold Becker 	$12,993,175 	[2]
[29]
Desperately Seeking Susan 	1985	Actress 	Susan Thomas 	Susan Seidelman 	$27,398,584 	[3]
[30]
Shanghai Surprise 	1986	Actress 	Gloria Tatlock 	Jim Goddard 	$2,315,683 	[31]
[32]
Who's That Girl 	1987	Actress 	Nikki Finn 	James Foley 	$7,305,209 	[5]
[33]
Bloodhounds of Broadway 	1989	Actress 	Hortense Hathaway 	Howard Brookner 	$43,671 	[6]
[34]
Dick Tracy 	1990	Actress 	Breathless Mahoney 	Warren Beatty 	$103,738,726 	[10]
[35]
Madonna: Truth or Dare(aka In Bed with Madonna)	1991	
* Documentary subject
* executive producer	Herself 	Alek Keshishian 	$15,012,935 	[36]
[37]
Shadows and Fog 	1991	Actress 	Marie 	Woody Allen 	$2,735,731 	[38]
[39]
A League of Their Own 	1992	Actress 	Mae Mordabito 	Penny Marshall 	$107,533,928 	[13]
[40]
Body of Evidence 	1993	Actress 	Rebecca Carlson 	Uli Edel 	$13,273,595 	[41]
[14]
Dangerous Game (aka Snake Eyes) 	1993	Actress 	Sarah Jennings 	Abel Ferrara 	$23,671 	[42]
[43]
Blue in the Face 	1995	Actress 	Singing telegram girl (cameo)	
* Paul Auster
* Wayne Wang	$1,268,636 	[44]
[45]
Four Rooms("The Missing Ingredient" segment) 	1995	Actress 	Elspeth 	Allison Anders 	$4,257,354 	[46]
[47]
Girl 6 	1996	Actress 	Boss #3 (cameo) 	Spike Lee 	$4,939,939 	[48]
[49]
Evita 	1996	Actress 	Eva Perón 	Alan Parker 	$50,047,179 	[50]
[51]
The Next Best Thing 	2000	Actress 	Abbie Reynolds 	John Schlesinger 	$14,990,582 	[17]
[52]
Swept Away 	2002	Actress 	Amber Leighton 	Guy Ritchie 	$598,645 	[18]
[53]
Die Another Day 	2002	Actress 	Verity (cameo) 	Lee Tamahori 	$160,942,139 	[21]
[54]
Agent Cody Banks 	2003	Executive producer	N/A 	Harald Zwart 	$47,938,330 	[55]
[56]
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London 	2004	Executive producer	N/A 	Kevin Allen 	$23,630,159 	[57]
[58]
I'm Going to Tell You a Secret 	2005	
* Documentary subject
* executive producer	Herself 	Jonas Åkerlund 	N/A 	[59]
Arthur and the Invisibles 	2006	Actress 	Princess Selenia (voice) 	Luc Besson 	$15,132,763 	[60]
[61]
Filth and Wisdom 	2008	
* Director
* executive producer
* screenwriter	N/A 	Madonna 	$22,406 	[23]
[62]
I Am Because We Are 	2008	
* Narrator
* producer
* screenwriter	Herself 	Nathan Rissman 	N/A 	[24]
W.E. 	2011	
* Director
* producer
* screenwriter	N/A 	Madonna 	$583,455 	[26]
[27]
== Television ==
Title 	Year	Episode 	Credit(s) 	Role 	Creator(s) 	Ref.
Saturday Night Live 	1985	"Madonna/Simple Minds" (Season 11, Episode 1) 	Actress 	
* Host (Herself)
* various sketches 	Lorne Michaels 	[73]
Saturday Night Live 	1986	"Sigourney Weaver/Buster Poindexter" (Season 12, Episode 1) 	Actress 	Herself (opening intro) 	Lorne Michaels 	[74]
Saturday Night Live 	1991	"Delta Burke/Chris Isaak" (Season 16, Episode 19) 	Actress 	Herself ("Wayne's World" sketch) 	Lorne Michaels 	[75]
Saturday Night Live 	1992	"Roseanne & Tom Arnold/Red Hot Chili Peppers" (Season 17, Episode 14)	Actress 	Liz Rosenberg("Coffee Talk" sketch) 	Lorne Michaels 	[76]
Saturday Night Live 	1993	"Harvey Keitel/Madonna" (Season 18, Episode 11) 	Actress 	
* Marilyn Monroe(opening intro)
* Musical Guest (Herself)	Lorne Michaels 	[77]
Will & Grace 	2003	"Dolls and Dolls" 	Actress 	Liz 	
* David Kohan
* Max Mutchnick	[22]
30 Days Until I'm Famous	2004	Television film 	Executive producer	N/A 	Gabriela Tagliavini	[78]
Alyx 	2008	Television film 	Executive producer	N/A 	
* Brad Bredeweg
* Amber J Lawson	[79]
Saturday Night Live 	2009	"Ryan Reynolds/Lady Gaga" (Season 35, Episode 2) 	Actress 	Herself ("Deep House Dish" sketch) 	Lorne Michaels 	[80]
Saturday Night Live 	2013	"Jimmy Fallon/Justin Timberlake" (Season 39, Episode 10) 	Actress 	Herself ("The Barry Gibb Talk Show" sketch)	Lorne Michaels 	[81]