Amy Madigan
Known for Acting · 103 credits
- Born
- 1950-09-11 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (23)
Law & Order
1990
as Emily Ryan
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Katharine Wyatt
Criminal Minds
2005
as Jane
ER
1994
as Mary Taggart
Frasier
1993
as Maggie (voice)
Fringe
2008
as Marilyn Dunham
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
as Irene Crawley
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest
Hart to Hart
1979
Grace and Frankie
2015
as Elaine
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Saving Grace
2007
as Gretchen Lagardi
CHiPs
1977
as Jewel Burnett
Carnivàle
2003
as Iris Crowe
Ice
2016
as Diane Pierce
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
as Miss Adelaide Finnister
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)
Crocodile Shoes
1994
The Path to 9/11
2006
as Patricia Carver / Colonel Raymond Malik
Mark Twain
2002
as Other Voices (voice)
Eureka Stockade
1984
as Sarah Jamieson
Movies (80)
Weapons
2025
as Gladys
The Hunt
2020
as Ma
Uncle Buck
1989
as Chanice Kobolowski
Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Bea McCready
Antlers
2021
as Principal Booth
Rebuilding
2025
as Bess
Streets of Fire
1984
as McCoy
Field of Dreams
1989
as Annie Kinsella
Frontera
2014
as Olivia
Places in the Heart
1984
as Viola Kelsey
Female Perversions
1996
as Madelyn Stephens
The Last Full Measure
2020
as Donna Burr
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mrs. Bransford
Sweetwater
2013
as Madame Bovary
Winter Passing
2006
as Lori Lansky
American Woman
2018
as Peggy
The Day After
1983
as Alison Ransom
Pollock
2000
as Peggy Guggenheim
Living Proof
2008
as Fran Visco
That's What I Am
2011
as Principal Kelner
The Laramie Project
2002
as Reggie Fluty
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Travis McGee
1983
as Billy Jean Bailey
Loved
1997
as Brett Amerson
Virginia
2010
as Mrs. Tipton
The Lifeguard
2013
as Justine
The Ranch
2004
as Mary Larkin
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jane Withersteen
Once Fallen
2010
as Rose
The Dark Half
1993
as Liz Beaumont
A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as Mary Jane Vann
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)
The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988
as Carla Headlee
Love Letters
1983
as Wendy
Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006
as Sherrie Davis
Twice in a Lifetime
1985
as Sunny
Grey Lady
2017
as Lola
With Friends Like These
1998
as Hannah DiMartino
Is Your Mama a Llama?
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
Roe vs. Wade
1989
as Sarah Weddington
Victims
1982
as Chloe Brill
Stuck
2019
as Sue
Shot in the Heart
2001
as Bessie Gilmore
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
as Amy Hill Hearth
Just a Dream
2002
as Cindy Wilder
The Ploughmen
as Francie
Crazy Times
1981
as Marilyn
The Ambush Murders
1982
as Molly Slavin
Nowhere to Hide
1987
as Barbara Cutter
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Maggie
Admissions
2004
as Martha Brighton
Alamo Bay
1985
as Glory
Gladys
2028
as Aunt Gladys
Love Child
1982
as Terry Jean Moore
I Passed This Way
In the Name of the People
2000
as Connie Murphy
A Time for Dancing
2002
as Jackie Russell
Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)
Future Weather
2012
as Greta
Brooklyn, Minnesota
2024
as Gail
And Then There Was One
1994
as Roxy Ventola
The Donner Party
1992
as voice
A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Joyce Vaughn
Buried Child
2016
as Halie
Sensitivity Training
2016
as Nancy
Lucky Day
1991
as Kari
Shirin in Love
2014
as Rachel
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
1986
as Woman at funeral
Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
2004
as Self
The Revolt of Mother
1988
as Sarah Penn
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003
Bull Street
2024
as Mary-Ann
Sponsor
The Laundromat
1985
as Deedee Johnson
In the Land of Milk and Money
2004
as Arlyne
School for the Blind
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
2013
as Self
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
2018
Go For Grandma
2023
as Grandma
About Amy Madigan
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 Gold… With 103 credits spanning from 1953 to 2028, Amy Madigan has appeared in 80 films and 23 TV shows.
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- Weapons (2025) — as Gladys
- The Hunt (2020) — as Ma
- Uncle Buck (1989) — as Chanice Kobolowski
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) — as Bea McCready
- Antlers (2021) — as Principal Booth
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