Amy Madigan
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-09-11
- Place of birth:
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Gladys
The Comebacker
Rebuilding
Weapons
Off the Horse
Brooklyn, Minnesota
Bull Street
Go For Grandma
Antlers
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
The Hunt
The Last Full Measure
Stuck
Gary's Walk
A Crooked Somebody
American Woman
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Grey Lady
Buried Child
Rules Don't Apply
Ice
Sensitivity Training
Grace and Frankie
How to Get Away with Murder
Frontera
Shirin in Love
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
Sweetwater
The Lifeguard
Future Weather
Prohibition
That's What I Am
Once Fallen
Virginia
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Living Proof
Fringe
Gone Baby Gone
Saving Grace
The Path to 9/11
Murder on Pleasant Drive
Winter Passing
Criminal Minds
Grey's Anatomy
Admissions
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Ranch
Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
In the Land of Milk and Money
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Carnivàle
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
Is Your Mama a Llama?
A Time for Dancing
Just a Dream
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
The Laramie Project
Shot in the Heart
The Sleepy Time Gal
Pollock
In the Name of the People
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
With Friends Like These
A Bright Shining Lie
Loved
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Female Perversions
Riders of the Purple Sage
Crocodile Shoes
ER
Baseball
And Then There Was One
Frasier
The Dark Half
The Donner Party
Lucky Day
Law & Order
Uncle Buck
Roe vs. Wade
Field of Dreams
The Prince of Pennsylvania
The Revolt of Mother
Nowhere to Hide
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
Twice in a Lifetime
Alamo Bay
The Laundromat
Places in the Heart
Streets of Fire
Eureka Stockade
The Day After
Travis McGee
Love Letters
Love Child
Late Night with David Letterman
American Playhouse
Victims
The Ambush Murders
Crazy Times
Hart to Hart
CHiPs
The Oscars
The Ploughmen
School for the Blind
Sponsor
I Passed This Way
Ashley Wright