Amy Madigan

Highest Rated: 100% Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)

Lowest Rated: 11% Virginia (2012)

Birthday: Sep 11, 1950

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Actress Amy Madigan is the daughter of Chicago political commentor John Madigan, well known in the Windy City for his WBBM radio signoff, "John Madigan...News Radio Ssssseventy-eight." After studying piano at the Chicago Conservatory and philosophy at Milwaukee's Marquette University, Madigan spent the next decade as a touring rock musician. In the late 1970s, she began preparing for an acting career at L.A.'s Lee Strasberg Institute, making her TV bow on an episode of Hart to Hart. While she may have looked like a standard blonde ingenue, Madigan's endearingly raspy voice and '60s-style ebullience secured her a series of offbeat leading roles, culminating with her performance as Kevin Costner's ex-activist wife in Field of Dreams (1989). In 1985, Amy Madigan was Oscar-nominated for her performance as Gene Hackman's embittered daughter in Twice in a Lifetime. She is married to actor Ed Harris, with whom she has co-starred in Places in the Heart (1984) and Alamo Bay (1985). Madigan would continue to act in the decades to come, memorably starring on Carnivale and Grey's Anatomy.

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Highest Rated Movies

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
100%
Gone Baby Gone
94%
Future Weather
93%
The Laramie Project
92%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
60%	Antlers	Actor	—	2021
57%	The Hunt	Ma	—	2020
59%	The Last Full Measure	Donna Burr	—	2020
88%	American Woman	Peggy	—	2019
52%	Stuck	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	American Woman	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Grey Lady	Lola	—	2017
No Score Yet	Sensitivity Training	Nancy	—	2016
54%	Frontera	Olivia	$59.8k	2014
21%	Shirin In Love	Rachel	—	2014
16%	The Lifeguard	Justine	—	2013
93%	Future Weather	Greta	—	2013
11%	Virginia	Roseanna Tipton	$11.6k	2012
60%	That's What I Am	Principal Kelner	—	2011
No Score Yet	Is Your Mama a Llama?... and More Classic Children's Stories	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Once Fallen	Rose Executive Producer	—	2009
No Score Yet	Living Proof	Fran Visco	—	2008
94%	Gone Baby Gone	Bea McCready	$20.4M	2007
No Score Yet	Murder on Pleasant Drive	Sherrie Davis	—	2006
42%	Winter Passing	Lori Lansky	—	2006
No Score Yet	The Path to 9/11	Patricia Carver	—	2006
100%	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Is Your Mama a Llama?... and More Stories About Growing Up	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Admissions	Martha Brighton	—	2004
No Score Yet	The Ranch	Mary Larkin	—	2004
No Score Yet	In the Land of Milk and Money	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Discontents	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	A Time for Dancing	Jackie	—	2002
No Score Yet	Just a Dream	Cindy Wilder	—	2002
92%	The Laramie Project	Off. Reggie Fluty	—	2002
82%	The Sleepy Time Gal	Maggie	—	2001
83%	Shot in the Heart	Bessie Gilmore	—	2001
80%	Pollock	Peggy Guggenheim	$7.3M	2000
No Score Yet	In The Name of the People	Connie Murphy	—	2000
No Score Yet	Not For Ourselves Alone	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Having Our Say: Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Amy Hill Hearth	—	1999
50%	With Friends Like These	Hannah DiMartino	—	1998
No Score Yet	A Bright Shining Lie	Mary Jane Vann	—	1998
70%	Female Perversions	Madelyn	—	1997
No Score Yet	Loved	Brett	—	1997
No Score Yet	Riders of the Purple Sage	Jane Withersteen Executive Producer	—	1996
No Score Yet	And Then There Was One	Roxy Ventola	—	1994
58%	The Dark Half	Liz Beaumont	—	1993
No Score Yet	Lucky Day	Kari	—	1991
64%	Uncle Buck	Chanice Kobolowski	—	1989
87%	Field of Dreams	Annie Kinsella	—	1989
No Score Yet	Roe vs. Wade	Sarah Weddington	—	1989
14%	The Prince of Pennsylvania	Carla Headlee	—	1988
No Score Yet	Nowhere to Hide	Barbara Cutter	—	1987
No Score Yet	Revolt of Mother	Mother	—	1986
83%	Twice in a Lifetime	Sunny	—	1985
No Score Yet	Alamo Bay	Glory	—	1985
89%	Places in the Heart	Viola	—	1984
67%	Streets of Fire	McCoy	—	1984
No Score Yet	Love Letters	Wendy	—	1984
83%	The Day After	Alison Ransom	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Ambush Murders	Molly Slavin	—	1982

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
74%	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels 2020	Adelaide Finnister	2020
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Voice	2019 1992
84%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Dr. Wyatt	2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
100%	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History 2014	Voice	2014
No Score Yet	The Dust Bowl 2012	Voice	2012
90%	Fringe 2008-2013	Marilyn Dunham	2011 2010
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990	Emily Ryan	2010
No Score Yet	Ken Burns' Baseball 1994-2010	Voice	2010 1994
No Score Yet	ER 1994-2009	Tildie Mulligan	2009
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005-2020	Jane	2009 2007
76%	Saving Grace 2007-2010	Gretchen Ligardi	2008
53%	Carnivàle 2003-2005	Iris	2005 2003
No Score Yet	Jazz 2001	Voice	2001
93%	Frasier 1993-2004	Voice of Maggie	1994

Quotes from Amy Madigan's Characters

McCoy:

Some people that never talk about their feelings got 'em deeper than anybody. Other people never talk about their feelings 'cause they ain't got any.

Annie Kinsella:

If you were married to me you would kill me in my sleep.

Ray Kinsella:	The Voice is back.
Annie Kinsella:	Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field now?

Annie Kinsella:	Hey, what is the Voice calls when you're gone?
Ray Kinsella:	Take a message.

Glory:

People hate what they fear and they fear what they don't understand.

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