
Amy Madigan
Known for Acting · 104 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 (24)

Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Katharine Wyatt

Law & Order
1990
as Emily Ryan

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

CHiPs
1977
as Jewel Burnett

Saving Grace
2007
as Gretchen Lagardi

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

Prohibition
2011
as Reader (voice)

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009

Crocodile Shoes
1994

The Path to 9/11
2006
as Patricia Carver / Colonel Raymond Malik

Eureka Stockade
1984
as Sarah Jamieson

Mark Twain
2002
as Other Voices (voice)
The Reboot X-Files
Movies (80)

Weapons
2025
as Gladys

The Hunt
2020
as Ma

Uncle Buck
1989
as Chanice Kobolowski

Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Bea McCready

Field of Dreams
1989
as Annie Kinsella

Antlers
2021
as Principal Booth

Places in the Heart
1984
as Viola Kelsey

Streets of Fire
1984
as McCoy

Rebuilding
2025
as Bess

The Last Full Measure
2020
as Donna Burr

The Day After
1983
as Alison Ransom

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mrs. Bransford

Frontera
2014
as Olivia

Sweetwater
2013
as Madame Bovary

Living Proof
2008
as Fran Visco

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)

Female Perversions
1996
as Madelyn Stephens

Pollock
2000
as Peggy Guggenheim

American Woman
2018
as Peggy

Once Fallen
2010
as Rose

Love Letters
1983
as Wendy

The Laramie Project
2002
as Reggie Fluty

The Dark Half
1993
as Liz Beaumont

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)

The Lifeguard
2013
as Justine

That's What I Am
2011
as Principal Kelner

The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988
as Carla Headlee

Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jane Withersteen

Grey Lady
2017
as Lola

A Bright Shining Lie
1998
as Mary Jane Vann

Travis McGee
1983
as Billy Jean Bailey

Virginia
2010
as Mrs. Tipton

Twice in a Lifetime
1985
as Sunny

With Friends Like These
1998
as Hannah DiMartino

Nowhere to Hide
1987
as Barbara Cutter

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self

The Ranch
2004
as Mary Larkin

Loved
1997
as Brett Amerson

The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Maggie

A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Joyce Vaughn
The Ploughmen
as Francie

Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006
as Sherrie Davis

Admissions
2004
as Martha Brighton

And Then There Was One
1994
as Roxy Ventola

Victims
1982
as Chloe Brill

The Ambush Murders
1982
as Molly Slavin

Stuck
2019
as Sue

Roe vs. Wade
1989
as Sarah Weddington

In the Name of the People
2000
as Connie Murphy

Future Weather
2012
as Greta

Alamo Bay
1985
as Glory

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
as Amy Hill Hearth

A Time for Dancing
2002
as Jackie Russell

Gladys
2028
as Gladys

Winter Passing
2006
as Lori Lansky

Shot in the Heart
2001
as Bessie Gilmore

Brooklyn, Minnesota
2024
as Gail

Shirin in Love
2014
as Rachel

Just a Dream
2002
as Cindy Wilder

Love Child
1982
as Terry Jean Moore

Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003

Crazy Times
1981
as Marilyn

Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)

Buried Child
2016
as Halie

Sensitivity Training
2016
as Nancy
I Passed This Way

The Donner Party
1992
as voice

In the Land of Milk and Money
2004
as Arlyne

Lucky Day
1991
as Kari

Bull Street
2024
as Mary-Ann

Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
1986
as Woman at funeral
Sponsor

Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
2013
as Self
Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
2004
as Self

The Laundromat
1985
as Deedee Johnson

Go For Grandma
2023
as Grandma
School for the Blind
The Revolt of Mother
1988
as Sarah Penn

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
2018

Is Your Mama a Llama?
2003
as Narrator (voice)
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 104 credits spanning from 1953 to 2028, Amy Madigan has appeared in 80 films and 24 TV shows.
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Most Popular Amy Madigan Movies
- Weapons (2025) — as Gladys
- The Hunt (2020) — as Ma
- Uncle Buck (1989) — as Chanice Kobolowski
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) — as Bea McCready
- Field of Dreams (1989) — as Annie Kinsella
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