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