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Amy Madigan
Actor, ProducerBorn September 11, 1950 (75 years)
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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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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Amy Madigan Filmography
| 2025 | Rebuilding · as Bess |
| 2025 | Weapons · as Gladys |
| 2024 | Bull Street · as Mary-Ann |
| 2021 | Antlers · as Principal Booth |
| 2020 | Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (TV Series) · as Miss Adelaide Finnister |
| 2020 | The Hunt · as Ma |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure · as Donna Burr |
| 2018 | American Woman · as Peggy |
| 2017 | A Crooked Somebody · as Joyce Vaughn |
| 2017 | Grey Lady · as Lola |
| 2017 | Stuck · as Sue |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | Ice (2016) (TV Series) · as Diane Pierce |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply · as Mrs. Bransford |
| 2016 | Sensitivity Training · as Nancy |
| 2016 | Buried Child · as Halie |
| 2015 | Grace and Frankie (TV Series) · as Elaine |
| 2014 | How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series) · as Irene Crawley |
| 2014 | Frontera · as Olivia |
| 2014 | Shirin in Love · as Rachel |
| 2014 | Ten X Ten (TV Series) · as Woman 50s |
| 2013 | Sweetwater · as Madame Bovary |
| 2013 | The Lifeguard · as Justine |
| 2012 | The Dust Bowl (TV Series) · as Sanora Babb |
| 2012 | Future Weather · as Greta |
| 2011 | Prohibition (TV Series) · as Reader (voice) |
| 2011 | That's What I Am · as Principal Kelner |
| 2010 | Once Fallen · as Rose |
| 2010 | Memphis Beat (TV Series) · as Kate Murphy |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | The National Parks: America's Best Idea (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Living Proof · as Fran Visco |
| 2008 | Fringe (TV Series) · as Marilyn Dunham |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone · as Bea Mccready |
| 2007 | Saving Grace (2007) (TV Series) |
| 2006 | The Path to 9/11 (TV Series) · as Colonel Raymond Malik |
| 2006 | Murder on Pleasant Drive · as Sherrie Davis |
| 2005 | Winter Passing · as Lori Lansky |
| 2005 | Criminal Minds (TV Series) · as Jane |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Katharine Wyatt |
| 2004 | Admissions · as Martha Brighton |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · as Other Voices (voice) |
| 2004 | The Ranch · as Mary Larkin |
| 2004 | In the Land of Milk and Money · as Arlyne |
| 2003 | Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip · as Other Voices (voice) |
| 2003 | Carnivàle (TV Series) · as Iris Crowe |
| 2002 | A Time for Dancing · as Jackie Russell |
| 2002 | Just a Dream · as Cindy Wilder |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project · as Reggie Fluty |
| 2002 | Mark Twain (TV Series) · as Other Voices (voice) |
| 2001 | Mark Twain · as (voice) |
| 2001 | Shot in the Heart · as Bessie Gilmore |
| 2001 | The Sleepy Time Gal · as Maggie |
| 2001 | Jazz (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2000 | Pollock · as Peggy Guggenheim |
| 2000 | In the Name of the People · as Connie Murphy |
| 1999 | Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1999 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years · as Amy Hill Hearth |
| 1998 | With Friends Like These · as Hannah Dimartino |
| 1998 | A Bright Shining Lie · as Mary Jane Vann |
| 1997 | Loved · as Brett Amerson |
| 1996 | Female Perversions · as Madelyn Stephens |
| 1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage · as Jane Withersteen |
| 1995 | The Way West · as Cast |
| 1995 | 500 Nations (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1994 | Crocodile Shoes (TV Series) |
| 1994 | ER (TV Series) · as Mary Taggart |
| 1994 | Baseball (TV Series) · as (voice) |
| 1994 | And Then There Was One · as Roxy Ventola |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Maggie (voice) |
| 1993 | The Dark Half · as Liz Beaumont |
| 1992 | The Donner Party · as Voice |
| 1991 | Lucky Day · as Kari |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Emily Ryan |
| 1989 | Uncle Buck · as Chanice Kobolowski |
| 1989 | Roe vs. Wade · as Sarah Weddington |
| 1989 | Field of Dreams · as Annie Kinsella |
| 1988 | The Prince of Pennsylvania · as Carla Headlee |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1987 | Nowhere to Hide · as Barbara Cutter |
| 1986 | Zeisters · as Woman At Funeral |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime · as Sunny |
| 1985 | Alamo Bay · as Glory |
| 1985 | The Laundromat · as Deedee Johnson |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart · as Viola Kelsey |
| 1984 | Streets of Fire · as Mccoy |
| 1984 | Eureka Stockade (TV Series) · 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 |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Sarah Penn |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) |
| 1977 | CHiPs (TV Series) · as Jewel Burnett |