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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), F…
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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.
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Amy Madigan's Filmography
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Gladys
as Gladys
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The Comebacker

Rebuilding
as Bess

Weapons
as Gladys
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Off the Horse
as Bobbette

Brooklyn, Minnesota
as Gail

Bull Street
as Mary-Ann

Go For Grandma
as Grandma

Antlers
as Principal Booth

The Hunt
as Ma

The Last Full Measure
as Donna Burr

Stuck
as Sue
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Gary's Walk
as Gloria

A Crooked Somebody
as Joyce Vaughn

American Woman
as Peggy

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

Grey Lady
as Lola

Buried Child
as Halie

Rules Don't Apply
as Mrs. Bransford

Sensitivity Training
as Nancy

Frontera
as Olivia

Shirin in Love
as Rachel

Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
as Self

Sweetwater
as Madame Bovary

The Lifeguard
as Justine

Future Weather
as Greta

That's What I Am
as Principal Kelner

Once Fallen
as Rose

Virginia
as Mrs. Tipton

Living Proof
as Fran Visco

Gone Baby Gone
as Bea McCready

Murder on Pleasant Drive
as Sherrie Davis

Winter Passing
as Lori Lansky

Admissions
as Martha Brighton

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)

The Ranch
as Mary Larkin
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Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
as Self

In the Land of Milk and Money
as Arlyne

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Other Voices (voice)
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Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
as Self

Is Your Mama a Llama?
as Narrator (voice)

A Time for Dancing
as Jackie Russell

Just a Dream
as Cindy Wilder

Mark Twain
as (voice)

The Laramie Project
as Reggie Fluty

Shot in the Heart
as Bessie Gilmore

The Sleepy Time Gal
as Maggie

Pollock
as Peggy Guggenheim

In the Name of the People
as Connie Murphy

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
as Amy Hill Hearth

With Friends Like These
as Hannah DiMartino

A Bright Shining Lie
as Mary Jane Vann

Loved
as Brett Amerson

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self

Female Perversions
as Madelyn Stephens

Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jane Withersteen

And Then There Was One
as Roxy Ventola

The Dark Half
as Liz Beaumont

The Donner Party
as voice

Lucky Day
as Kari

Uncle Buck
as Chanice Kobolowski

Roe vs. Wade
as Sarah Weddington

Field of Dreams
as Annie Kinsella

The Prince of Pennsylvania
as Carla Headlee
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The Revolt of Mother
as Sarah Penn

Nowhere to Hide
as Barbara Cutter

Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
as Woman at funeral

Twice in a Lifetime
as Sunny

Alamo Bay
as Glory

The Laundromat
as Deedee Johnson

Places in the Heart
as Viola Kelsey

Streets of Fire
as McCoy

The Day After
as Alison Ransom

Travis McGee
as Billy Jean Bailey

Love Letters
as Wendy

Love Child
as Terry Jean Moore

Victims
as Chloe Brill

The Ambush Murders
as Molly Slavin

Crazy Times
as Marilyn
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The Ploughmen
as Francie
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Sponsor
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Ashley Wright
as Donna Terry
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I Passed This Way
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