Amy Madigan

Acting

Born 1950-09-11 Chicago, Illinois, USA 105 credits Academy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress 1 Theatre World Award 1 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2026 Best Supporting Actress Won Weapons
1986 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Twice in a Lifetime
— Best Supporting Actress Nominated Weapons

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1989 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won Roe vs. Wade

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

2026 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Won Weapons

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress 1 won

2026 Best Supporting Actress Won Weapons

Theatre World Award 1 won

1987 Theatre World Award Won

Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 1 won

1984 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award Won Streets of Fire

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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.