Amy Ryan
Acting
Born 1968-05-03
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
74 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 2008 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Gone Baby Gone
Tony Awards 2 nominated
- 2005 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated
- 2000 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated
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Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born May 3, 1968), known professionally as Amy Ryan, is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone (2007) and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax.
Ryan was born in Queens, New York City. She is the daughter of Pam, a nurse, and John, a trucking business owner. Ryan is her mother's maiden name. She is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Growing up in the 1970s, Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike. At a young age, Ryan attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. At 17, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts. Hired for the national tour of Biloxi Blues right out of high school, Ryan worked steadily off-Broadway for the next decade.
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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
Rick and Morty
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
The Office
Sugar
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Chicago Hope
The Wire
ER
Quantum Leap
Only Murders in the Building
Third Watch
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
In Treatment
War of the Worlds
The Oscars
Broad City
Finding Your Roots
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Escape Plan
Bridge of Spies
The Naked Truth
Central Intelligence
Goosebumps
Gone Baby Gone
Beau Is Afraid
Beautiful Boy
Wolfs
Green Zone
Changeling
Late Night
100 Centre Street
Monster Trucks
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Devil's Knot
Dan in Real Life
The Infiltrator
Clear History
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Capote
Louder Than Bombs
You Can Count on Me
Strange but True
Breathe In
Lost Girls
Worth
Win Win
Bob Funk
A Will of their Own
Keane
Don Verdean
In the Deep Woods
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
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