Madeline Zima busy with movies and red carpet photo ops while on break from Californication

Californication actress Madeline Zima is keeping busy during the show’s haitus — just about as busy as her character, Mia Lewis, will on her book tour in Season 3. Zima has several film projects completed, including a few that feature her as part of an A-list cast. She’s also making herself known on the party circuit in LA.

This weekend Madeline was photographed on the red carpet at the Fashion for Life fundraiser at the California Market Center, where she wore an orange strapless dress and fab strappy sandals.

Last Thursday found Zima at the T-Mobile Sidekick LX Launch Party held at Paramount Studios, where she hob knobbed with the likes of Pete Wentz (who made a cameo on Californication last season) along with wife Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton, Lauren Conrad, Adrian Grenier and Anna Faris, among other stars.

On May 4, Madeline attended the Nylon and MySpace Young Hollywood party at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, dolled up in her best faux-flower headband.

As for her professional work, Zima joins Dominique Swain and Jeremy London in the already completed film Trance, which IMdb synopsizes as such: “sexy girls at a rave turn into blood thirsty killers after taking a mysterious new drug.”

My Own Love Song, a feel-good flick due this fall, features Madeline and Renée Zellweger, along with Forest Whitaker and Nick Nolte, in the story of a wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend who take a roadtrip to Memphis.

In Happy Together, starring Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis, Zima is part of an up-and-coming supporting cast that includes Gabrielle Anwar and rapper Bow Wow. The film is about a mother’s memory loss and how it gives her dysfunctional family a second chance at happiness.

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