"Sideways" icon Virginia Madsen is leading the tributes to her brother, "Reservoir Dogs" and "The Hateful Eight" actor Michael Madsen, who died Thursday at the age of 67.

Virginia Madsen is mourning her famous older brother. Michael Madsen, best known for starring in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, was found unresponsive at his home in Malibu on Thursday morning and pronounced dead by paramedics.

Actress Virginia Madsen called her brother Michael Madsen, who died July 3, 'a poet disguised as an outlaw,' in a tribute. 'I miss my big brother.'