
Amy Madigan
Department: 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, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Madigan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Field of Dreams
1989

The Dark Half
1993

Uncle Buck
1989

Gone Baby Gone
2007

The Day After
1983

Living Proof
2008

Female Perversions
1996

Winter Passing
2006

Streets of Fire
1984

Once Fallen
2010

A Time for Dancing
2002

The Ploughmen
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997

Love Child
1982

Admissions
2004

Loved
1997

Nowhere to Hide
1987

Love Letters
1983

That's What I Am
2011

Virginia
2010

Shot in the Heart
2001

Twice in a Lifetime
1985

The Sleepy Time Gal
2001

Mark Twain
2002

And Then There Was One
1994

Riders of the Purple Sage
1996

The Lifeguard
2013

Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006

Just a Dream
2002

Alamo Bay
1985

Brooklyn, Minnesota
2024

School for the Blind
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Shirin in Love
2014

The Donner Party
1992

The Laundromat
1985

Frontera
2014

Roe vs. Wade
1989

Go For Grandma
2023

Bull Street
2024

The Laramie Project
2002

The Ambush Murders
1982

Lucky Day
1991

Crazy Times
1981

Places in the Heart
1984

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999

The Prince of Pennsylvania
1988

Weapons
2025

Rules Don't Apply
2016

The Ranch
2004

A Bright Shining Lie
1998

Rebuilding
2025

A Crooked Somebody
2018

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003

With Friends Like These
1998

Grey Lady
2017

Pollock
2000

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

American Woman
2018

Stuck
2019

Antlers
2021

Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
2004

Buried Child
2016

The Hunt
2020

Sweetwater
2013

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004

The Last Full Measure
2020

Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
2013

Victims
1982

Travis McGee
1983

In the Name of the People
2000

Future Weather
2012

Gladys
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In the Land of Milk and Money
2004

Sensitivity Training
2016

Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003

Sponsor
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Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
1986

The Revolt of Mother
1988

Is Your Mama a Llama?
2003

CHiPs
1977

Carnivàle
2003

Frasier
1993

Criminal Minds
2005

Hart to Hart
1979

ER
1994

Crocodile Shoes
1994

The Path to 9/11
2006

Saving Grace
2007

The Oscars
1953

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Mark Twain
2002

Law & Order
1990

How to Get Away with Murder
2014

Ice
2016

Fringe
2008

The Path to 9/11
2006

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020

Eureka Stockade
1984

Baseball
1994

Grace and Frankie
2015

Prohibition
2011

Baseball
1994