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Amy Madigan

Born 1950-09-11
📍 Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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Filmography 98

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