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Amy Madigan: Ed Harris
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Amy Madigan's touching perfomance in Places of the Heart as a small-town schoolteacher in doomed love with a married man (Ed Harris) was a high point in a film full of masterful acting. She went on to seethe at Gene Hackman's betrayal in Twice in a Lifetime; re-team with Harris for Alamo Bay; blaze in the controversial, 1989 telefilm Roe vs. Wade; and indulge Kevin Costner's baseball fixation as his grounded, good-natured wife in Field of Dreams. Madigan's heartbreaking role in the 1994 Lifetime Television movie And Then There Was One, as a woman who watches her husband and child succumb to AIDS, earned critical raves and the CableACE award for Best Actress.
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Amy Madigan recently scored an acting coup in her husband Ed Harris' award-winning "Pollock", in which she played art patroness Peggy Guggenheim. She was ... seen in Shot in the Heart and The Laramie Project, both for HBO, and Showtime's Just A Dream, an original telefilm directed by Danny Glover.
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Madigan grew up in Chicago and sang rock through her college years at Marquette University. In 1974 she moved to Los Angeles, where she played in local clubs before turning to acting. Harris went from suburban New Jersey to Columbia College to play football but after two years dropped out and drifted to Oklahoma, where he took classes, pumped gas and worked as a night watchman. After seeing some summer theater, he moved to L.A. to study acting. He was onstage in Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth in 1980 when Madigan first laid eyes on him.
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Former rock singer Madigan has garnered several stage and film credits, first coming to notice in Love Child (1982). In her next movie (Places in the Heart, 1984) she costarred with her husband, Ed Harris. She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Twice in a Lifetime (1985) and then appeared in Field of Dreams (1989). Other films include Pollock (2000), A Time for Dancing (2000) and The Sleepy Time Gal (2001). She is a cast member of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005).
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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, who once hosted a Chicago TV show called "Standpoint." He last worked as the WBBM radio political editor and signed off with his signature, "News radio ssssssseventy-eight!"
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Madigan played flamboyant art patron Peggy Guggenheim, one of the first to champion Pollock's work. Her husband, Ed Harris, directed Pollock and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the title role.
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