
Amy Madigan
Acting • Born 1950-09-11
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, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Madigan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
104 credits
Field of Dreams
Movie • 1989
Annie Kinsella

The Dark Half
Movie • 1993
Liz Beaumont

Uncle Buck
Movie • 1989
Chanice Kobolowski

Gone Baby Gone
Movie • 2007
Bea McCready

The Day After
Movie • 1983
Alison Ransom

Living Proof
Movie • 2008
Fran Visco

Female Perversions
Movie • 1996
Madelyn Stephens

Winter Passing
Movie • 2006
Lori Lansky

Streets of Fire
Movie • 1984
McCoy

Once Fallen
Movie • 2010
Rose

A Time for Dancing
Movie • 2002
Jackie Russell

The Ploughmen
Movie
Francie

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie • 1997
Self

Love Child
Movie • 1982
Terry Jean Moore

Admissions
Movie • 2004
Martha Brighton

Loved
Movie • 1997
Brett Amerson

Nowhere to Hide
Movie • 1987
Barbara Cutter

Love Letters
Movie • 1983
Wendy

That's What I Am
Movie • 2011
Principal Kelner

Virginia
Movie • 2010
Mrs. Tipton

Shot in the Heart
Movie • 2001
Bessie Gilmore

Twice in a Lifetime
Movie • 1985
Sunny

The Sleepy Time Gal
Movie • 2001
Maggie

Mark Twain
Movie • 2002
(voice)

And Then There Was One
Movie • 1994
Roxy Ventola

Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1996
Jane Withersteen

The Lifeguard
Movie • 2013
Justine

Murder on Pleasant Drive
Movie • 2006
Sherrie Davis

Just a Dream
Movie • 2002
Cindy Wilder

Alamo Bay
Movie • 1985
Glory

Brooklyn, Minnesota
Movie • 2024
Gail

School for the Blind
Movie

Shirin in Love
Movie • 2014
Rachel

The Donner Party
Movie • 1992
voice

The Laundromat
Movie • 1985
Deedee Johnson

Frontera
Movie • 2014
Olivia

Roe vs. Wade
Movie • 1989
Sarah Weddington

Go For Grandma
Movie • 2023
Grandma

Bull Street
Movie • 2024
Mary-Ann

The Laramie Project
Movie • 2002
Reggie Fluty

The Ambush Murders
Movie • 1982
Molly Slavin

Lucky Day
Movie • 1991
Kari

Crazy Times
Movie • 1981
Marilyn

Places in the Heart
Movie • 1984
Viola Kelsey

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

The Prince of Pennsylvania
Movie • 1988
Carla Headlee

Weapons
Movie • 2025
Gladys

Rules Don't Apply
Movie • 2016
Mrs. Bransford

The Ranch
Movie • 2004
Mary Larkin

A Bright Shining Lie
Movie • 1998
Mary Jane Vann

Rebuilding
Movie • 2025
Bess

A Crooked Somebody
Movie • 2018
Joyce Vaughn

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

With Friends Like These
Movie • 1998
Hannah DiMartino

Grey Lady
Movie • 2017
Lola

Pollock
Movie • 2000
Peggy Guggenheim

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

American Woman
Movie • 2018
Peggy

Stuck
Movie • 2019
Sue

Antlers
Movie • 2021
Principal Booth

Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
Movie • 2004
Self

Buried Child
Movie • 2016
Halie

The Hunt
Movie • 2020
Ma

Sweetwater
Movie • 2013
Madame Bovary

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

The Last Full Measure
Movie • 2020
Donna Burr

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

Victims
Movie • 1982
Chloe Brill

Travis McGee
Movie • 1983
Billy Jean Bailey

In the Name of the People
Movie • 2000
Connie Murphy

Future Weather
Movie • 2012
Greta

Untitled Weapons Prequel
Movie
Gladys

In the Land of Milk and Money
Movie • 2004
Arlyne

Sensitivity Training
Movie • 2016
Nancy

Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
Movie • 2003

Untitled Weapons Prequel
Movie

Sponsor
Movie

Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
Movie • 1986
Woman at funeral

The Revolt of Mother
Movie • 1988
Sarah Penn

Is Your Mama a Llama?
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)

CHiPs
TV • 1977
Jewel Burnett

Carnivàle
TV • 2003
Iris Crowe

Frasier
TV • 1993
Maggie (voice)

Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Jane

Hart to Hart
TV • 1979

ER
TV • 1994
Mary Taggart

Crocodile Shoes
TV • 1994

The Path to 9/11
TV • 2006
Patricia Carver

Saving Grace
TV • 2007
Gretchen Lagardi

The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
TV • 2009

Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Katharine Wyatt

Mark Twain
TV • 2002
Other Voices (voice)

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Emily Ryan

How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
Irene Crawley

Ice
TV • 2016
Diane Pierce

Fringe
TV • 2008
Marilyn Dunham

The Path to 9/11
TV • 2006
Colonel Raymond Malik

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
TV • 2020
Miss Adelaide Finnister

Eureka Stockade
TV • 1984
Sarah Jamieson

Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)

Grace and Frankie
TV • 2015
Elaine

Prohibition
TV • 2011
Reader (voice)

Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)