Amy Madigan
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7883 |
| Birthday | 1950-09-11 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Amy Marie Madigan, |
1989
Field of Dreams
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1993
The Dark Half
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1989
Uncle Buck
6.801/1336
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2007
Gone Baby Gone
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The Day After
6.78/435
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2008
Living Proof
6.5/17
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Living Proof
1996
Female Perversions
5.049/61
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Female Perversions
2006
Winter Passing
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1984
Streets of Fire
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Streets of Fire
2010
Once Fallen
5.2/30
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2002
A Time for Dancing
6.686/97
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1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
7/2
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1982
Love Child
5.571/7
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Love Child
2004
Admissions
5.333/6
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1997
Loved
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1987
Nowhere to Hide
6.5/13
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1983
Love Letters
5.63/27
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2011
That's What I Am
6.79/200
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That's What I Am
2010
Virginia
5.2/56
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2001
Shot in the Heart
5.861/18
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1985
Twice in a Lifetime
5.768/28
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Twice in a Lifetime
2001
The Sleepy Time Gal
5.3/10
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2002
Mark Twain
7.111/18
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1994
And Then There Was One
5.286/7
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And Then There Was One
1996
Riders of the Purple Sage
6/7
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2013
The Lifeguard
5.4/298
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2006
Murder on Pleasant Drive
6.571/7
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Murder on Pleasant Drive
2002
Just a Dream
5.333/6
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Just a Dream
1985
Alamo Bay
5.963/27
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Alamo Bay
2024
Brooklyn, Minnesota
8/1
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School for the Blind
0/0
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2014
Shirin in Love
3.9/10
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1992
The Donner Party
7.042/12
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1985
The Laundromat
7.5/2
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2014
Frontera
6.541/206
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1989
Roe vs. Wade
5.958/12
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2023
Go For Grandma
6/1
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2024
Bull Street
1/1
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2002
The Laramie Project
6.276/58
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The Ambush Murders
8/2
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1991
Lucky Day
7.667/3
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1981
Crazy Times
0/0
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1984
Places in the Heart
7.165/191
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1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
7.3/6
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The Prince of Pennsylvania
5.615/39
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2025
Weapons
7.249/3284
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2016
Rules Don't Apply
5.746/500
The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes.
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2004
The Ranch
3.867/15
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The Ranch
1998
A Bright Shining Lie
5.667/30
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A Bright Shining Lie
2025
Rebuilding
6.568/44
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2018
A Crooked Somebody
6.346/52
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2003
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
7.667/9
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1998
With Friends Like These
6.5/2
Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.
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2017
Grey Lady
4.8/24
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Grey Lady
2000
Pollock
6.669/346
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2018
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
7/2
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American Woman
6.345/165
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American Woman
2019
Stuck
7/31
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
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Stuck
2021
Antlers
6.221/1227
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Antlers
2004
Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
10/3
Features Major League players and managers and cast and crew discussing the themes of the film, the performances, baseball, family, the film's lasting...
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Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
2016
Buried Child
0/0
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group. Dodge and Halie try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while ca...
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Buried Child
2020
The Hunt
6.636/3600
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The Hunt
2013
Sweetwater
6.07/206
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Sweetwater
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.161/28
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2020
The Last Full Measure
7.286/491
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The Last Full Measure
2013
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
0/0
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1982
Victims
6.25/4
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin...
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Victims
1983
Travis McGee
5.667/3
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Travis McGee
2000
In the Name of the People
5.5/2
John Burke is on death row for the murder of a young girl. He is worried about what will happen to his own young daughter after his execution. He asks...
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In the Name of the People
2012
Future Weather
6.1/17
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcohol...
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Future Weather
2004
In the Land of Milk and Money
8.333/3
Idyllic Suburbia. Mom 'n' Apple Pie. Or not. This outrageous comedy turns suburban America on its head. Mad cow disease, Corporate Greed, Mob Mentalit...
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In the Land of Milk and Money
2016
Sensitivity Training
5.3/5
A grumpy microbiologist is forced into sensitivity training at work and forms an unlikely friendship with her overly vivacious coach.
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Sensitivity Training
2003
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
0/0
A look behind the story and production of the HBO dramatic series Carnivàle.
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0/0
Peter makes a big mistake when he gets behind the wheel after partying too hard. A terrible accident leaves him with a choice: prison or a recovery pr...
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1986
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
3.667/3
Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient ("the fat guy") and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.
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Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
1988
The Revolt of Mother
0/0
Father is going to build a new barn. Mother (Academy Award nominee Amy Madigan) wants the new house she's been promised. A simple story, yet one that...
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The Revolt of Mother
2003
Is Your Mama a Llama?
0/0
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2028
Gladys
0/0
The prequel of the 2025 film Weapons. Plot TBA.
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