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