- Born
- Birth nameAmy Marie Madigan
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- In the 1960s, Amy attended St. Philip Neri grammar school and Aquinas High School, both in Chicago, where she performed in school plays and was known as the school tomboy. In the early 1970s, Amy was featured in Playboy Magazine wearing only jelly, to promote her music band, Jelly. Amy is the daughter of John Madigan, a media personality in Chicago, Illinois.
- IMDb mini biography by: PJ Moriarty, former classmate of Amy Madigan
- SpouseEd Harris(November 21, 1983 - present) (1 child)
- Children
- ParentsDolores Helen Hanlon
- RelativesJim Madigan(Sibling)Jack Madigan(Sibling)
- Known for playing tough, no-nonsense female characters
- She married Ed Harris after they worked together on the film Places in the Heart (1984) in which they played a couple having an affair.
- As of 2022, she has appeared with husband Ed Harris in 11 movies: Alamo Bay (1985), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Places in the Heart (1984), Pollock (2000), Winter Passing (2005), Just a Dream (2002), Riders of the Purple Sage (1996), Frontera (2014), Rules Don't Apply (2016), A Crooked Somebody (2017) and The Last Full Measure (2019).
- Sang and played piano in a rock band before she started acting. She was, for a time, the lead singer of the group, Big Daddy.
- Graduated from Marquette University with a degree in philosophy.
- Her father, John Madigan, is a noted Chicago area lawyer who appeared on NBC's Meet the Press (1947).
- I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
- The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
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