Amy Madigan

Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime. Her other film credits include Love Child (1982), Places in the Heart (1984), Field of Dreams (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), The Dark Half (1993), Pollock (2000), and Gone Baby Gone (2007). Her television work includes the role of Iris Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Sarah Weddington in the television film Roe vs. Wade (1989). Early life Madigan was born September 11, 1950, in Chicago to a third-generation Roman Catholic Irish American family. Her father, John J. Madigan (1918–2012), was a well-known journalist who worked for Newsweek and provided political commentary on programs such as Meet the Press and Face the Nation. He interviewed a range of political figures, from Richard Nixon to Martin Luther King Jr., and hosted his own show with WBBM (AM). Her mother was Dolores (; 1921–1992), an administrative assistant and amateur actress who performed in community theatre. She has two brothers, Jack and Jim. Madigan attended Chicago's St. Aquinas Dominican High School, where she performed in school plays. In the 1960s, she studied piano at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and went on to attend Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she earned a B.A. in philosophy. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974. She later studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.