Amy Madigan

Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950)^[1] is an American television and movie actress. She has acted in many notable movies and TV series. These include the 1989 movie Field of Dreams and Uncle Buck and the series Grey's Anatomy, Carnivàle and Fringe. In 2025, Madigan became well known again for her role as Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's horror movie Weapons. For this role, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Career

In 1984, Madigan played McCoy in the movie Streets of Fire, and had a supporting role as Viola Kelsey in Places in the Heart. In 1985, she starred in the television movie The Laundromat. In 1985, she played Sunny Mackenzie-Sobel, a woman in a difficult marriage, in Twice in a Lifetime. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award.

In 2025, she played the villain role of Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's horror mystery movie Weapons.^[2] Madigan's role in Weapons received strong positive reviews. For this role, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. On March 15, 2026, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The 40-year space between this nomination and her last nomination for Twice in a Lifetime is the longest gap between Oscar nominations for an actress.^[3]^[4]

Madigan was born in Chicago, Illinois.^[1] She studied at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she earned a B.A. degree in philosophy in 1972.^[5]^[6] She moved to Los Angeles in 1974.^[7]

Madigan married the actor Ed Harris in 1983. They have one daughter, Lily Dolores, born in 1993.

1 2 "Amy Madigan Biography". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
↑ Nicholson, Amy (August 7, 2025). "In the spellbinding mystery 'Weapons', six characters reveal bloody slices of the truth". Los Angeles Times.
↑ Davis, Clayton (2026-02-20). "Amy Madigan on Falling in Love With Aunt Gladys in 'Weapons,' Becoming Wagner Moura's Smoking Buddy and Cranking Bad Bunny's Halftime Show to 11". Variety. Retrieved 2026-03-08. Amy Madigan didn't expect to be here. Not in the thick of awards season, not making history with a 40-year gap between Oscar nominations, and certainly not doing it as the ferociously unforgettable Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's horror-thriller "Weapons."
↑ Loving, Casey; McGovern, Joe (January 22, 2026). "Oscars 2026 Milestones: Amy Madigan, Wagner Moura and More Make History". TheWrap. Archived from the original on January 24, 2026. Retrieved January 24, 2026.
↑ Pelletier, Katie (December 2016). "Reed Welcomes Two New Trustees". Reed Magazine. Portland, Oregon: Reed College.
↑ "Alumni Prizes, Awards, Distinctions, Offices in Professional Societies and Other Forms of Recognition" (PDF). Marquette University. p. 242. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 7, 2019.
↑ Rosenfeld, Megan (April 28, 1985). "Amy Madigan Gets The Right Parts But Glamor Isn't In Her Script". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2015.

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