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Amy Madigan

Acting

Born September 11, 1950 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as Amy Marie Madigan

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.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 2026
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association AwardBest Supporting Actress · 2026
  • Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role · 2026
  • Golden Globe AwardBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film · 1989
  • Theatre World Award · 1987
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  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award · 1984
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1986 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Criminal Minds

2005as Jane

In the Land of Milk and Money

2004as Arlyne

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Katharine Wyatt

Fringe

2008as Marilyn Dunham

The Ambush Murders

1982as Molly Slavin

Prohibition

2011as Reader (voice)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

2009

Carnivàle

2003as Iris Crowe

How to Get Away with Murder

2014as Irene Crawley

ER

1994as Mary Taggart

Grace and Frankie

2015as Elaine

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003as Other Voices (voice)

Frasier

1993as Maggie (voice)

Baseball

1994as (voice)

Weapons

2025as Gladys

The Last Full Measure

2019as Donna Burr

Gone Baby Gone

2007as Bea McCready

Saving Grace

2007as Gretchen Lagardi

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

1999as Amy Hill Hearth

Law & Order

1990as Emily Ryan

Places in the Heart

1984as Viola Kelsey

Field of Dreams

1989as Annie Kinsella

Stuck

2019as Sue

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

2018

The Donner Party

1992as voice

Streets of Fire

1984as McCoy

Hart to Hart

1979

CHiPs

1977as Jewel Burnett

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

2020as Miss Adelaide Finnister

That's What I Am

2011as Principal Kelner

Uncle Buck

1989as Chanice Kobolowski

Pollock

2000as Peggy Guggenheim

Rebuilding

2025as Bess

The Hunt

2020as Ma

Murder on Pleasant Drive

2006as Sherrie Davis

Frontera

2014as Olivia

With Friends Like These

1998as Hannah DiMartino

Ice

2016as Diane Pierce

American Woman

2018as Peggy

A Crooked Somebody

2018as Joyce Vaughn

The Laramie Project

2002as Reggie Fluty

Antlers

2021as Principal Booth

Sweetwater

2013as Madame Bovary

Future Weather

2012as Greta

Go For Grandma

2023as Grandma

Winter Passing

2005as Lori Lansky

Riders of the Purple Sage

1996as Jane Withersteen

The Dark Half

1993as Liz Beaumont

Alamo Bay

1985as Glory

Rules Don't Apply

2016as Mrs. Bransford