
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 Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2026
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2026
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role · 2026
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film · 1989
- Theatre World Award · 1987
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- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award · 1984
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 1986 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · nominated
Filmography50+ titles

Criminal Minds

In the Land of Milk and Money

Grey's Anatomy

Fringe

The Ambush Murders

Prohibition

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Carnivàle

How to Get Away with Murder

ER

Grace and Frankie

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Frasier

Baseball

Weapons

The Last Full Measure

Gone Baby Gone

Saving Grace

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Law & Order

Places in the Heart

Field of Dreams

Stuck

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

The Donner Party

Streets of Fire

Hart to Hart

CHiPs

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

That's What I Am

Uncle Buck

Pollock

Rebuilding

The Hunt

Murder on Pleasant Drive

Frontera

With Friends Like These

Ice

American Woman

A Crooked Somebody

The Laramie Project

Antlers

Sweetwater

Future Weather

Go For Grandma

Winter Passing

Riders of the Purple Sage

The Dark Half

Alamo Bay

Rules Don't Apply