Amy Madigan
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

Grey's Anatomy

Law & Order

Criminal Minds

ER

Frasier

Fringe

How to Get Away with Murder

Late Night with David Letterman
All Movies (81)
- Gladys2028 · as Aunt Gladys
- Rebuilding2025 · as Bess
- Weapons2025 · as Gladys
- Off the Horse2025 · as Bobbette
- Brooklyn, Minnesota2024 · as Gail
- Bull Street2024 · as Mary-Ann
- Go For Grandma2023 · as Grandma
- Antlers2021 · as Principal Booth
- The Hunt2020 · as Ma
- The Last Full Measure2020 · as Donna Burr
- Stuck2019 · as Sue
- A Crooked Somebody2018 · as Joyce Vaughn
- American Woman2018 · as Peggy
- American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs2018
- Grey Lady2017 · as Lola
- Buried Child2016 · as Halie
- Rules Don't Apply2016 · as Mrs. Bransford
- Sensitivity Training2016 · as Nancy
- Frontera2014 · as Olivia
- Shirin in Love2014 · as Rachel
- Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited2013 · as Self
- Sweetwater2013 · as Madame Bovary
- The Lifeguard2013 · as Justine
- Future Weather2012 · as Greta
- That's What I Am2011 · as Principal Kelner
- Once Fallen2010 · as Rose
- Virginia2010 · as Mrs. Tipton
- Living Proof2008 · as Fran Visco
- Gone Baby Gone2007 · as Bea McCready
- Murder on Pleasant Drive2006 · as Sherrie Davis
- Winter Passing2006 · as Lori Lansky
- Admissions2004 · as Martha Brighton
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson2004 · as Other Voices (voice)
- The Ranch2004 · as Mary Larkin
- Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime2004 · as Self
- In the Land of Milk and Money2004 · as Arlyne
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip2003 · as Other Voices (voice)
- Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show2003
- Is Your Mama a Llama?2003 · as Narrator (voice)
- A Time for Dancing2002 · as Jackie Russell
- Just a Dream2002 · as Cindy Wilder
- Mark Twain2002 · as (voice)
- The Laramie Project2002 · as Reggie Fluty
- Shot in the Heart2001 · as Bessie Gilmore
- The Sleepy Time Gal2001 · as Maggie
- Pollock2000 · as Peggy Guggenheim
- In the Name of the People2000 · as Connie Murphy
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years1999 · as Amy Hill Hearth
- With Friends Like These1998 · as Hannah DiMartino
- A Bright Shining Lie1998 · as Mary Jane Vann
- Loved1997 · as Brett Amerson
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western1997 · as Self
- Female Perversions1996 · as Madelyn Stephens
- Riders of the Purple Sage1996 · as Jane Withersteen
- And Then There Was One1994 · as Roxy Ventola
- The Dark Half1993 · as Liz Beaumont
- The Donner Party1992 · as voice
- Lucky Day1991 · as Kari
- Uncle Buck1989 · as Chanice Kobolowski
- Roe vs. Wade1989 · as Sarah Weddington
- Field of Dreams1989 · as Annie Kinsella
- The Prince of Pennsylvania1988 · as Carla Headlee
- The Revolt of Mother1988 · as Sarah Penn
- Nowhere to Hide1987 · as Barbara Cutter
- Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid1986 · as Woman at funeral
- Twice in a Lifetime1985 · as Sunny
- Alamo Bay1985 · as Glory
- The Laundromat1985 · as Deedee Johnson
- Places in the Heart1984 · as Viola Kelsey
- Streets of Fire1984 · as McCoy
- The Day After1983 · as Alison Ransom
- Travis McGee1983 · as Billy Jean Bailey
- Love Letters1983 · as Wendy
- Love Child1982 · as Terry Jean Moore
- Victims1982 · as Chloe Brill
- The Ambush Murders1982 · as Molly Slavin
- Crazy Times1981 · as Marilyn
- The Ploughmen— · as Francie
- School for the Blind—
- Sponsor—
- I Passed This Way—
All TV Shows (25)
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels2020 · as Miss Adelaide Finnister
- Ice2016 · as Diane Pierce
- Grace and Frankie2015 · as Elaine
- How to Get Away with Murder2014 · as Irene Crawley
- Prohibition2011 · as Reader (voice)
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea2009
- Fringe2008 · as Marilyn Dunham
- Saving Grace2007 · as Gretchen Lagardi
- The Path to 9/112006 · as Patricia Carver
- The Path to 9/112006 · as Colonel Raymond Malik
- Criminal Minds2005 · as Jane
- Grey's Anatomy2005 · as Katharine Wyatt
- Carnivàle2003 · as Iris Crowe
- Mark Twain2002 · as Other Voices (voice)
- Crocodile Shoes1994
- ER1994 · as Mary Taggart
- Baseball1994 · as Various (voice)
- Baseball1994 · as (voice)
- Frasier1993 · as Maggie (voice)
- Law & Order1990 · as Emily Ryan
- Eureka Stockade1984 · as Sarah Jamieson
- Late Night with David Letterman1982 · as Self - Guest
- Hart to Hart1979
- CHiPs1977 · as Jewel Burnett
- The Oscars1953 · as Self