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)