- Born: Sep 11, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: '80s-2000s
- Major Genres: Drama
- Career Highlights: Places in the Heart, The Day After, The Sleepy Time Gal
- First Major Screen Credit: Love Child (1982)
Biography
Actress Amy Madigan is the daughter of Chicago political commentor John Madigan, well known in the Windy City for his WBBM radio signoff, "John Madigan...News Radio Ssssseventy-eight." After studying piano at the Chicago Conservatory and philosophy at Milwaukee's Marquette University, Madigan spent the next decade as a touring rock musician. In the late 1970s, she began preparing for an acting career at L.A.'s Lee Strasberg Institute, making her TV bow on an episode of Hart to Hart. While she may have looked like a standard blonde ingenue, Madigan's endearingly raspy voice and '60s-style ebullience secured her a series of offbeat leading roles, culminating with her performance as Kevin Costner's ex-activist wife in
Field of Dreams (1989). In 1985, Amy Madigan was Oscar-nominated for her performance as Gene Hackman's embittered daughter in Twice in a Lifetime. She is married to actor Ed Harris, with whom she has co-starred in
Places in the Heart (1984) and
Alamo Bay (1985), ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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