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Amy Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American
United States

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 actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
 and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale
Carnivāle

Carniv?le is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christianity theology with gnosticism and Freemasonry l...
.

Early Life
Madigan was born in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Dolores, a union
Trade union

A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions....
 worker, and John Madigan, a Chicago-area political analyst, newspaper journalist, broadcast and media personality and lawyer.






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Amy Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
 and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale
Carnivāle

Carniv?le is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christianity theology with gnosticism and Freemasonry l...
.

Early Life


Madigan was born in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Dolores, a union
Trade union

A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions....
 worker, and John Madigan, a Chicago-area political analyst, newspaper journalist, broadcast and media personality and lawyer. Madigan studied philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 at Marquette University
Marquette University

Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities....
 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and List of United States cities by population in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan....
, piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 at the The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts
The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts

The Music Conservatory was founded in 1867 as the Chicago Musical College,a conservatory whose primary focus was the intensive and rigorous training of...
, and also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She moved to Los Angeles in 1970.

Career


Madigan was nominated for an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for her performance in the 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime
Twice in a Lifetime (1985 film)

Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 in film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. The plot involves a steelworker and married man going through a mid-life crisis when he finds himself attracted to another woman, played by Ann-Margret....
. From 2003 to 2005, she starred in the HBO series Carnivāle
Carnivāle

Carniv?le is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christianity theology with gnosticism and Freemasonry l...
 as Iris Crowe, the sister of sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown

Clarence J. "Clancy" Brown III is an United States actor and voice actor....
). Madigan also played keyboard, percussions, and vocals behind Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman

Steve Goodman was an United States folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans ", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards....
 on tour throughout the late '70s. Later she briefly recorded with replacing former vocalist Starr Smith. She was (with singers Fred Bliffert and Jesse Roe) one-third of the group Jelly whose only album, A True Story, was released by Asylum in 1977. At the 71st Annual Academy Awards, Madigan was one of several performers who refused to applaud Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
, due to his controversial activities during his career.

Personal


Madigan is also a political activist; among other things, she has served on the national board of NARAL Pro-Abortion America, a pro-abortion/women's rights organization. Madigan has been married to actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 Ed Harris
Ed Harris

'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
 since 1983. The couple have one child together, a daughter, Lily.

Selected credits

  • ER (2009)
  • Living Proof
    Living Proof (film)

    Living Proof is a 2008 in film television movie, directed by Dan Ireland, starring Harry Connick, Jr.The film is based on the true life story of Dr....
     (2008)
  • Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
     (2008)
  • Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone

    Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 in film United States crime drama/mystery film directed by Ben Affleck. The screenplay by Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, Mystic River of Mystic River ....
     (2007)
  • Criminal Minds
    Criminal Minds

    Criminal Minds is an American police procedural that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television....
     (2007)
  • Winter Passing
    Winter Passing

    Winter Passing is a 2005 in film United States drama film. It is the directorial debut of playwright Adam Rapp, also known for his work on the show The L Word....
     (2005)
  • The Discontents (2004)
  • In the Land of Milk and Money (2004)
  • Carnivāle
    Carnivāle

    Carniv?le is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christianity theology with gnosticism and Freemasonry l...
     (2003-2005)
  • Just a Dream (2002)
  • The Laramie Project
    The Laramie Project

    The Laramie Project is a play by Mois?s Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, Wyoming....
     (2002)
  • A Time for Dancing
    A Time for Dancing

    A Time for Dancing is a 2000 in film United States drama film film starring Larisa Oleynik and Shiri Appleby, and directed by Peter Gilbert....
     (2000)
  • Pollock
    Pollock (film)

    Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson....
     (2000)
  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (film)

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 in television United States television movie directed by Lynne Littman. The screenplay by Emily Mann is adapted from her Tony Award-nominated 1995 play based on a memoir by Sadie and Bessie Delany written in collaboration with Amy Hill Hearth....
     (1999)
  • Riders of the Purple Sage
    Riders of the Purple Sage

    Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Grey's best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre....
     (1996)
  • Female Perversions (1996)
  • The Dark Half
    The Dark Half (film)

    The Dark Half is a 1993 horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the The Dark Half. The film was directed by George A. Romero and stars Timothy Hutton as Thad Beaumont and George Stark, Amy Madigan as Liz Beaumont, and Michael Rooker as Sheriff Alan Pangborn....
     (1993)
  • Uncle Buck
    Uncle Buck

    Uncle Buck is a 1989 in film comedy-drama starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly and Gaby Hoffmann, and co-stars Macaulay Culkin, Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf....
     (1989)
  • Field of Dreams
    Field of Dreams

    Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
     (1989)
  • The Prince of Pennsylvania
    The Prince of Pennsylvania

    The Prince of Pennsylvania is a 1988 in film Comedy-drama starring Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Ward, and Amy Madigan. The Academy Awards-nominated composer Thomas Newman wrote the music....
     (1989)
  • Alamo Bay (1985)
  • The Laundromat (1985)
  • Twice in a Lifetime
    Twice in a Lifetime (1985 film)

    Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 in film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. The plot involves a steelworker and married man going through a mid-life crisis when he finds himself attracted to another woman, played by Ann-Margret....
     (1985)
  • Places in the Heart
    Places in the Heart

    Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
     (1984)
  • Streets of Fire
    Streets of Fire

    Streets of Fire is a 1984 in film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in previews, trailers, and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable." It is an unusual mix of musical film, action film, drama film, and comedy film with elements both of retro-1950s and 1980s....
     (1984)
  • The Day After
    The Day After

    The Day After is an United States television movie which aired on November 20 1983, on the American Broadcasting Company Television Network....
     (1983)
  • Love Child (1982)


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