Amy Madigan
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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
Credits
Weapons (2025)
as Gladys
The Hunt (2020)
as Ma
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
as Bea McCready
Antlers (2021)
as Principal Booth
Field of Dreams (1989)
as Annie Kinsella
Uncle Buck (1989)
as Chanice Kobolowski
Streets of Fire (1984)
as McCoy
Rules Don't Apply (2016)
as Mrs. Bransford
The Last Full Measure (2020)
as Donna Burr
Places in the Heart (1984)
as Viola Kelsey
The Day After (1983)
as Alison Ransom
Frontera (2014)
as Olivia
The Dark Half (1993)
as Liz Beaumont
Female Perversions (1996)
as Madelyn Stephens
Grey Lady (2017)
as Lola
That's What I Am (2011)
as Principal Kelner
Sweetwater (2013)
as Madame Bovary
Winter Passing (2006)
as Lori Lansky
American Woman (2018)
as Peggy
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
as Other Voices (voice)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
as Jane Withersteen
Rebuilding (2025)
as Bess
Gladys (2028)
as Gladys
A Crooked Somebody (2018)
as Joyce Vaughn
The Laramie Project (2002)
as Reggie Fluty
A Time for Dancing (2002)
as Jackie Russell
The Lifeguard (2013)
as Justine
The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
as Carla Headlee
Pollock (2000)
as Peggy Guggenheim
Once Fallen (2010)
as Rose
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show (2003)
as Self
With Friends Like These (1998)
as Hannah DiMartino
Admissions (2004)
as Martha Brighton
And Then There Was One (1994)
as Roxy Ventola
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
as Sunny
The Ranch (2004)
as Mary Larkin
A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
as Mary Jane Vann
Mark Twain (2002)
as (voice)
The Comebacker (2027)
Actor
Love Letters (1983)
as Wendy
Lucky Day (1991)
as Kari
Nowhere to Hide (1987)
as Barbara Cutter
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
as Amy Hill Hearth
Shot in the Heart (2001)
as Bessie Gilmore
Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
as Sherrie Davis
Shirin in Love (2014)
as Rachel
Living Proof (2008)
as Fran Visco
Just a Dream (2002)
as Cindy Wilder
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)
as Other Voices (voice)
Roe vs. Wade (1989)
as Sarah Weddington
Alamo Bay (1985)
as Glory
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997)
as Self
Virginia (2010)
as Mrs. Tipton
The Ploughmen (—)
as Francie
The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
as Maggie
The Laundromat (1985)
as Deedee Johnson
Ashley Wright (—)
as Donna Terry
In the Land of Milk and Money (2004)
as Arlyne
I Passed This Way (—)
Actor
Love Child (1982)
as Terry Jean Moore
In the Name of the People (2000)
as Connie Murphy
Stuck (2019)
as Sue
The Donner Party (1992)
as voice
Travis McGee (1983)
as Billy Jean Bailey
Sponsor (—)
Actor
Crazy Times (1981)
as Marilyn
The Revolt of Mother (1988)
as Sarah Penn
Victims (1982)
as Chloe Brill
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid (1986)
as Woman at funeral
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited (2013)
as Self
Bull Street (2024)
as Mary-Ann
The Ambush Murders (1982)
as Molly Slavin
Loved (1997)
as Brett Amerson
Future Weather (2012)
as Greta
Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime (2004)
as Self
School for the Blind (—)
Actor
Buried Child (2016)
as Halie
Gary's Walk (2019)
as Gloria
Go For Grandma (2023)
as Grandma
Sensitivity Training (2016)
as Nancy
Brooklyn, Minnesota (2024)
as Gail
Off the Horse (2025)
as Bobbette
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs (2018)
Actor
Is Your Mama a Llama? (2003)
as Narrator (voice)