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, an Academy Award, as well as nominations for 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
2028
- Gladys as Gladys
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
- Ice as Diane Pierce
- Rules Don't Apply as Mrs. Bransford
- Buried Child as Halie
- 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
- Sweetwater as Madame Bovary
- The Lifeguard as Justine
- Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited as Self
2012
- Future Weather as Greta
2011
- Prohibition as Reader (voice)
- That's What I Am as Principal Kelner
2010
- Once Fallen as Rose
- Virginia as Mrs. Tipton
2008
- Fringe as Marilyn Dunham
- Living Proof as Fran Visco
2007
- Saving Grace as Gretchen Lagardi
- Gone Baby Gone as Bea McCready
2006
- The Path to 9/11 as Patricia Carver
- Winter Passing as Lori Lansky
- Murder on Pleasant Drive as Sherrie Davis
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Katharine Wyatt
- Criminal Minds as Jane
2004
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- The Ranch as Mary Larkin
- Admissions as Martha Brighton
- Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime as Self
- In the Land of Milk and Money as Arlyne
2003
- Carnivàle as Iris Crowe
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Other Voices (voice)
- Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
- Is Your Mama a Llama? as Narrator (voice)
2002
- The Laramie Project as Reggie Fluty
- Mark Twain as Other Voices (voice)
- A Time for Dancing as Jackie Russell
- Just a Dream as Cindy Wilder
- Mark Twain as (voice)
2001
- The Sleepy Time Gal as Maggie
- Shot in the Heart as Bessie Gilmore
2000
- Pollock as Peggy Guggenheim
- In the Name of the People as Connie Murphy
1999
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years as Amy Hill Hearth
1998
- A Bright Shining Lie as Mary Jane Vann
- With Friends Like These as Hannah DiMartino
1997
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
- Loved as Brett Amerson
1996
- Female Perversions as Madelyn Stephens
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Jane Withersteen
1994
- ER as Mary Taggart
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- Crocodile Shoes
- And Then There Was One as Roxy Ventola
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
- Field of Dreams as Annie Kinsella
- Uncle Buck as Chanice Kobolowski
- Roe vs. Wade as Sarah Weddington
1988
- The Prince of Pennsylvania as Carla Headlee
- The Revolt of Mother as Sarah Penn
1987
- Nowhere to Hide as Barbara Cutter
1986
- Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid as Woman at funeral
1985
- Twice in a Lifetime as Sunny
- Alamo Bay as Glory
- The Laundromat as Deedee Johnson
1984
- Places in the Heart as Viola Kelsey
- Streets of Fire as McCoy
- Eureka Stockade as Sarah Jamieson
1983
- The Day After as Alison Ransom
- Love Letters as Wendy
- Travis McGee as Billy Jean Bailey
1982
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Victims as Chloe Brill
- The Ambush Murders as Molly Slavin
- Love Child as Terry Jean Moore
1981
- Crazy Times as Marilyn
1979
1977
- CHiPs as Jewel Burnett
1953
- The Oscars as Self