Amy Madigan
Born: 1950-09-11 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress. She has acted on stage and screen, and has received a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and an Emmy Award. She has been married to actor Ed Harris since 1983. Madigan made her film debut in the drama Love Child (1982), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. For playing a woman in a difficult marriage in the drama film Twice in a Lifetime (1985), she earned a nomination for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also acted in Love Letters (1984), Alamo Bay (1985), Nowhere to Hide (1987), Uncle Buck (1989), Field of Dreams (1989), Female Perversions (1996), Pollock (2000), and Gone Baby Gone (2007). After a lack of "meaningful roles", she gained newfound attention for her performance in the horror film Weapons (2025). On television, Madigan portrayed Sarah Weddington in the television film Roe vs. Wade (1989), for which she won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also took roles in the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005), Grey's Anatomy (2008–2009), and Fringe (2009). On stage, she has acted in the Off-Broadway production of The Lucky Spot (1987), for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and a 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in the role of Stella Kowalski. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Madigan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Weapons as Gladys
- Rebuilding as Bess
2024
- Brooklyn, Minnesota as Gail
- Bull Street as Mary-Ann
2023
- Go For Grandma as Grandma
2021
- Antlers as Principal Booth
2020
- The Hunt as Ma
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels as Miss Adelaide Finnister
- The Last Full Measure as Donna Burr
2019
- Stuck as Sue
2018
- American Woman as Peggy
- A Crooked Somebody as Joyce Vaughn
- American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
2017
- Grey Lady as Lola
2016
- Buried Child as Halie
- Ice as Diane Pierce
- Rules Don't Apply as Mrs. Bransford
- Sensitivity Training as Nancy
2015
- Grace and Frankie as Elaine
2014
- How to Get Away with Murder as Irene Crawley
- Frontera as Olivia
- Shirin in Love as Rachel
2013
- The Lifeguard as Justine
- Sweetwater as Madame Bovary
- Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited as Self
2012
- Future Weather as Greta
2011
- That's What I Am as Principal Kelner
- Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2010
- Virginia as Mrs. Tipton
- Once Fallen as Rose
2008
- Fringe as Marilyn Dunham
- Living Proof as Fran Visco
2007
- Saving Grace as Gretchen Lagardi
- Gone Baby Gone as Bea McCready
2006
- Winter Passing as Lori Lansky
- The Path to 9/11 as Patricia Carver
- Murder on Pleasant Drive as Sherrie Davis
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Katharine Wyatt
- Criminal Minds as Jane
2004
- Admissions as Martha Brighton
- The Ranch as Mary Larkin
- In the Land of Milk and Money as Arlyne
- Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime as Self
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2003
- Carnivàle as Iris Crowe
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Other Voices (voice)
- Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2002
- Mark Twain as (voice)
- The Laramie Project as Reggie Fluty
- A Time for Dancing as Jackie Russell
- Mark Twain as Other Voices (voice)
- Just a Dream as Cindy Wilder
2001
- Shot in the Heart as Bessie Gilmore
- The Sleepy Time Gal as Maggie
2000
- In the Name of the People as Connie Murphy
- Pollock as Peggy Guggenheim
1999
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years as Amy Hill Hearth
1998
- With Friends Like These as Hannah DiMartino
- A Bright Shining Lie as Mary Jane Vann
1997
- Loved as Brett Amerson
- Female Perversions as Madelyn Stephens
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1996
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Jane Withersteen
1994
- ER as Mary Taggart
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- And Then There Was One as Roxy Ventola
- Crocodile Shoes
1993
- Frasier as Maggie (voice)
- The Dark Half as Liz Beaumont
1992
- The Donner Party as voice
1991
- Lucky Day as Kari
1990
- Law & Order as Emily Ryan
1989
- Uncle Buck as Chanice Kobolowski
- Field of Dreams as Annie Kinsella
- Roe vs. Wade as Sarah Weddington
1988
- The Prince of Pennsylvania as Carla Headlee
1987
- Nowhere to Hide as Barbara Cutter
1985
- Alamo Bay as Glory
- Twice in a Lifetime as Sunny
- The Laundromat as Deedee Johnson
1984
- Streets of Fire as McCoy
- Places in the Heart as Viola Kelsey
- Eureka Stockade as Sarah Jamieson
1983
- Love Letters as Wendy
- The Day After as Alison Ransom
- Travis McGee as Billy Jean Bailey
1982
- Love Child as Terry Jean Moore
- Victims as Chloe Brill
- The Ambush Murders as Molly Slavin
1981
- Crazy Times as Marilyn
1979
1977
- CHiPs as Jewel Burnett
1953
- The Oscars as Self