Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Weapons (2026).
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Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics' Choice Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Born 11 September 1950 · Q235219
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Weapons (2026).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Weapons (2026).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Weapons (2026).
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Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; the 40-year gap between this nomination and her previous nomination for Twice in a Lifetime set the record for longest gap between Oscar nominations for an actress
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Had a pivotal role in Zach Cregger's horror mystery film Weapons, playing the eccentric and mysterious Gladys, the great-aunt of a young boy whose classmates go missing in his small community
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“Opportunities [as an older actress] are less and you just hope that something finds you so you can find it... I don”
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Madigan starred as Judge Motley in the independent drama Bull Street, which premiered as the opening night film at the Sarasota Film Festival in Sarasota, Florida
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Had a supporting role in the independent drama American Woman opposite Sienna Miller, followed by a supporting role in Scott Cooper's horror film Antlers (2021), playing a school principal in a small Oregon town plag
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Starred as Halie in the revival of Sam Shepard's play Buried Child for The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan, New York
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“I had been working in [music] for a very long time. I am not a writer, so I wasn”
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Directing a stage production of Off the King's Road at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles
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Guest-starred in the final episode of TNT's drama series Memphis Beat
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Played the sister-in-law of Helene (Amy Ryan), Beatrice "Bea" McCready, in the film Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck
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Had a supporting role as Patricia Carver, a CIA headquarters analyst, in the Emmy-winning television film The Path to 9/11
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Starred as Lori Lansky in Winter Passing, directed by Adam Rapp
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Had a supporting role as Reggie Fluty, the officer who responded to aid the dying Matthew Shepard in the television film The Laramie Project
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Portrayed Peggy Guggenheim in the film Pollock, starring her husband, which he also directed and produced
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Was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her performance as Brett Armerson in the film Loved
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And Harris produced and starred in the television film Riders of the Purple Sage
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Opposite Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin, and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Debut Performance
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Starred opposite Olympia Dukakis in the Emmy-nominated television film Lucky Day
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Madigan starred opposite Paula Kelly in Stevie Wants to Play the Blues by Eduardo Machado, for which she won a Drama-Logue Award
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Roe vs. Wade (1989).
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Won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance
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Played the wife of Kevin Costner's lead character in Field of Dreams, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; and played Chanice Kobolowski, the girlfriend of John Candy's character, in the John
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Was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her performance in The Prince of Pennsylvania
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1987).
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Portraying Sue Jack Tiller in The Lucky Spot by Beth Henley, for which she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
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Played Sunny Mackenzie-Sobel, a woman in a difficult marriage, in Twice in a Lifetime
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Starred in the television film The Laundromat, written by Marsha Norman, opposite Carol Burnett
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Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award for Streets of Fire (1984).
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Portrayed McCoy in the film Streets of Fire, and had a supporting role as Viola Kelsey in Places in the Heart
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Starred as Alison Ransom in the television film The Day After
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Later studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
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Born 1950-09-11.
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