Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan

Actor (b. 1950)
12
Movies
71.8%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Amy Madigan’s films higher than 52% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Places in the Heart (YouTube, Tubi) · Gone Baby Gone (Pluto TV) · That's What I Am (Roku Channel, Tubi, Fawesome) · The Lifeguard (Roku Channel, The CW, Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Fawesome) · The Dark Half (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome).

Frequent Collaborators

Ed Harris (3)Gaby Hoffmann (2)Casey Affleck (1)Michelle Monaghan (1)Morgan Freeman (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Amy Madigan (71.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 12 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Amy's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress. She has acted on stage and screen, and has received a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award. She has been married to actor Ed Harris since 1983.  Madigan made her film debut in the drama Love Child (1982), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. For playing a woman in a difficult marriage in the drama film Twice in a Lifetime (1985), she earned a nomination for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has also acted in Love Letters (1984), Alamo Bay (1985), Nowhere to Hide (1987), Uncle Buck (1989), Field of Dreams (1989), Female Perversions (1996), Pollock (2000), and Gone Baby Gone (2007). After a lack of "meaningful roles", she gained newfound attention for her performance in the horror film Weapons (2025). On television, Madigan portrayed Sarah Weddington in the television film Roe vs. Wade (1989), for which she won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also took roles in the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005), Grey's Anatomy (2008–2009), and Fringe (2009). On stage, she has acted in the Off-Broadway production of The Lucky Spot (1987), for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and a 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in the role of Stella Kowalski. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Madigan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1950-09-11 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

On ThumbScore, Amy Madigan appears in 12 films with an average audience score of 71.8%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Amy Madigan movie, ranked by audience score

Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire
1984
👍 85%
Uncle Buck
Uncle Buck
1989
👍 81%
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart
1984
👍 78%
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams
1989
👍 76%
Weapons
Weapons
2025
👍 76%
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone
2007
👍 74%
The Day After
The Day After
1983
👍 74%
That's What I Am
That's What I Am
2011
👍 72%
A Time for Dancing
A Time for Dancing
2002
👍 67%
The Lifeguard
The Lifeguard
2013
👍 63%
The Dark Half
The Dark Half
1993
👍 59%
Antlers
Antlers
2021
👍 57%