Portrait of Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan

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, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and 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.

Born: September 11, 1950

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Filmography

2025
Rebuilding

as Bess

2025
Weapons

as Gladys

2024
Bull Street

as Mary-Ann

2023
Go For Grandma

as Grandma

2021
Antlers

as Principal Booth

2020
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

as Miss Adelaide Finnister

2020
2020
2019
Stuck

as Sue

2018
A Crooked Somebody

as Joyce Vaughn

2018
2017
Grey Lady

as Lola

2016
Buried Child

as Halie

2016
Rules Don't Apply

as Mrs. Bransford

2016
Ice

as Diane Pierce

2015
2014
2014
Frontera

as Olivia

2014
2013
Sweetwater

as Madame Bovary

2013
The Lifeguard

as Justine

2012
2011
Prohibition

as Reader (voice)

2011
That's What I Am

as Principal Kelner

2010
2010
Virginia

as Mrs. Tipton

2008
Living Proof

as Fran Visco

2008
Fringe

as Marilyn Dunham

2007
Gone Baby Gone

as Bea McCready

2006
The Path to 9/11

as Patricia Carver

2006
The Path to 9/11

as Colonel Raymond Malik

2006
Murder on Pleasant Drive

as Sherrie Davis

2006
Winter Passing

as Lori Lansky

2005
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Katharine Wyatt

2004
Admissions

as Martha Brighton

2004
The Ranch

as Mary Larkin

2003
Carnivàle

as Iris Crowe

2002
A Time for Dancing

as Jackie Russell

2002
Just a Dream

as Cindy Wilder

2002
Mark Twain

as (voice)

2002
Mark Twain

as Other Voices (voice)

2002
The Laramie Project

as Reggie Fluty

2001
Shot in the Heart

as Bessie Gilmore

2001
2000
Pollock

as Peggy Guggenheim

2000
1998
With Friends Like These

as Hannah DiMartino

1998
A Bright Shining Lie

as Mary Jane Vann

1997
Loved

as Brett Amerson

1997
Female Perversions

as Madelyn Stephens

1996
Riders of the Purple Sage

as Jane Withersteen

1994
ER

as Mary Taggart

1994
Baseball

as Various (voice)

1994
Baseball

as (voice)

1994
And Then There Was One

as Roxy Ventola

1993
Frasier

as Maggie (voice)

1993
The Dark Half

as Liz Beaumont

1992
1991
Lucky Day

as Kari

1990
Law & Order

as Emily Ryan

1989
Uncle Buck

as Chanice Kobolowski

1989
Roe vs. Wade

as Sarah Weddington

1989
Field of Dreams

as Annie Kinsella

1988
1987
Nowhere to Hide

as Barbara Cutter

1985
Alamo Bay

as Glory

1985
The Laundromat

as Deedee Johnson

1984
Places in the Heart

as Viola Kelsey

1984
1984
Eureka Stockade

as Sarah Jamieson

1983
The Day After

as Alison Ransom

1983
Travis McGee

as Billy Jean Bailey

1983
Love Letters

as Wendy

1982
Love Child

as Terry Jean Moore

1982
Victims

as Chloe Brill

1982
The Ambush Murders

as Molly Slavin

1981
Crazy Times

as Marilyn

1977
CHiPs

as Jewel Burnett

1953
The Oscars

as Self