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★ LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ★
Born in Chicago, Amy
Madigan majored in philosophy
at Marquette University
and also studied piano at the
Chicago Conservatory and
acting at the famed Lee Strasberg
Theater Institute. She
began her entertainment career
as a musician, first as pianist
and lead singer with the
band Jelly and then as lead
singer for Big Daddy.
She made her acting
debut on the hit television series
Hart to Hart and some of
her other work for the small
screen includes appearances
on such series as CHiPs,
American Playhouse, Criminal
Minds, Saving Grace, Living
Proof, ER, Law and Order
and Fringe among others.
She had a recurring role as
Dr. Wyatt on Grey’s Anatomy
and a regular role on HBO’s
Carnivàle..
In addition to her work on
series, Ms. Madigan has also
starred in a number of madefor-television
films and miniseries
including Ten x Ten, Living Proof, The Path to 9/11, The
Ranch, The Laramie Project, Shot in the Heart, In the Name of
the People, Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First Hundred
Years, And Then There Was One for which she won the Cable
ACE Award for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries, Roe vs.
Wade for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress
in a Supporting Role and received an Emmy nomination,
The Laundromat, for which she won the Cable ACE Award for
Best Actress in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special and The Day
After among others.
For the television film, Riders of the Purple Sage, Ms. Madigan
received the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding
Television Feature Film. She was both a co-star and
co-producer on the project with her husband, fellow 2015 FLIFF
honoree Ed Harris.
Ms. Madigan has starred in some three dozen feature films
including Streets of Fire, Places in the Heart, Alamo Bay,
Nowhere to Hide, Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, The Dark Half,
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Loved, With Friends Like
These…, A Time for Dancing,
The Discontents, Winter
Passing, Gone Baby Gone,
Once Fallen and Frontera.
She received an Academy
Award Nomination for Best
Supporting Actress and a
Golden Globe nomination for
her work in Twice in a Lifetime
and was nominated for
the Golden Globe’s New
Star of the Year for Love
Child, her film debut. (Love
Child was the Tribute film
producer Paul Maslansky
chose to screen when FLIFF
honored him in 1991.) She
was nominated for Independent
Spirit Awards for her
films Loved and The Prince
of Pennsylvania.
On stage, Ms. Madigan
made her Broadway debut in
the 1992 revival of A Streetcar
Named Desire. She
played Stella Kowalski in the
production, which also
starred Alec Baldwin as
Stanley and Jessica Lange
as Blanche. Reviewing the play for The New York Times, Frank
Rich described Ms. Madigan as an actress “whose stage work
has generally been as accomplished as her screen appearances”
and noted her performance in Streetcar “captures Stella's
Southern gregariousness.” She made her Off-Broadway debut
in Beth Henley’s play The Lucky Spot for which she received the
Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk
Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In Los Angeles, she
received the Drama-Logue Award for her work in Stevie Wants
to Play the Blues in which she starred with Paula Kelly at the Los
Angeles Theater Center. Some of her other Los Angeles stage
work includes A Lie of the Mind at the Mark Taper Forum and
The Jacksonian at the Geffen Playhouse.
Ms. Madigan recently completed the feature films Grey Lady
and Stuck, a story where chance and happenstance collide as
strangers, who would probably never notice or speak to each
other, get stuck together on a locked subway car beneath New
York City.
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Ms. Madigan will attend the November 21st awards Gala.