Amy Ryan

Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born May 3, 1968) known professionally as Amy Ryan, is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Gone Baby Gone (2007) and is also known for her role in HBO's The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell.
==Early life==
Born in Queens, New York City, Ryan is her mother's maiden name.[1][2] She is of English, Irish, and Polish descent.[3] Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike growing up in the 1970s. At a young age, she attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in upstate New York.[1][2] At 17, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts.[1][2] Hired for the national tour of Biloxi Blues right out of high school, Ryan worked steadily Off-Broadway for the next decade.[2][4]
==Theatre==
Ryan made her off-Broadway debut in the Westside Theatre's 1987 production of A Shayna Maidel, playing the role of Hanna. The following year she was seen in the Second Stage Theatre Company's revival of The Rimers of Eldritch.[5][6] Additional off-Broadway credits include As Bees In Honey Drown, Crimes of the Heart and Saved.[7][8][9][10] She also worked in regional theater, where she originated roles in new plays by Neil LaBute, Arthur Miller and Neil Simon. On Broadway she has appeared as Tess in The Sisters Rosensweig, Natasha in the 1997 revival of The Three Sisters, and Peggy in the 2001–2002 revival of The Women.[2][11]
Ryan has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play twice, in 2000 for her portrayal of Sonya Alexandrovna in Uncle Vanya and in 2005 for her performance as Stella Kowalski opposite John C. Reilly in A Streetcar Named Desire.[2][11][12][13]
==Television==
Following a brief stint playing a runaway on As the World Turns, Ryan was cast in television series such as I'll Fly Away,[2][14] in which she played a high school temptress, and Brooklyn Bridge, where she played Marion Ross' character in flashbacks.[15] After roles on ER and Chicago Hope, Ryan became a series regular on The Naked Truth as Téa Leoni's spoiled stepdaughter.[14][16][17] In 1993, she made her first appearance on NBC's Law & Order, appearing in several episodes over the years.[2][14]
By 2001, director Sidney Lumet cast her in 100 Centre Street playing three different roles (Ellen, Paris and Rebecca).[1][18] Ryan went on to feature prominently in the second season of HBO's The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell.[14][19][20] She appeared for a six-episode arc on The Office as dorky HR rep Holly Flax. She reprised her role on The Office in the Season 5 finale.[14][17] According to Mindy Kaling, "She’s definitely coming back," for the seventh season with a much larger role. In reference to the season 6 finale, Kaling stated “We set her return up in the finale, so it would be the biggest [cop-out] of all time if we didn’t [follow through] on it."[21] She is set to return for at least eight episodes of season 7.[22]
Ryan joined the cast of HBO's In Treatment for its third season, playing the therapist of Dr. Paul Weston.[23]
In 2021, Amy Ryan played Jan Bellows, a main role, in the first season of Hulu series Only Murders in the Building co-starring with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.[24]
==Film==
Due to the deletion of the scene wherein she played Eric Stoltz's wife in Allison Anders' Grace of my Heart,[1] Ryan made her 1999 movie debut in Roberta.[14][17] She then appeared in You Can Count on Me with Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo,[2][24] and the mystery/thriller Keane.[2][25][17] Albert Brooks chose her to play his wife in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World in 2005, and 2007 brought both Dan in Real Life and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.[2][14][18] Her role as a star-struck sheriff's wife in Capote[2][14] earned her positive reviews, but it was playing a hardened welfare mom in Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone that finally brought her national attention.[2][4][18][20]
After being voted Best Supporting Actress for Gone Baby Gone by the National Board of Review,[26] as well as the critics circles in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC, Ryan's performance was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award,[27] and an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting role at the 80th Academy Awards.[28]
Ryan appeared in Changeling (2008), directed by Clint Eastwood,[2][14] and opposite Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass's Green Zone (2010).[2][29][30] In September 2010 she completed filming a role in Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial film debut, Jack Goes Boating, taking over the role of Connie originally played by Beth Cole in the stage version.[19][31]
In 2018, Ryan co-starred in Beautiful Boy, a dark family drama, with her The Office co-star Steve Carell, and Timothée Chalamet. She was then among the ensemble cast of 2019's Late Night, the Mindy Kaling-penned (a writer and producer of The Office) comedy starring Emma Thompson; and Strange but True, a noir-thriller based on the novel by John Searles. In 2020, Ryan starred as Mari Gilbert, a real-life woman searching for her missing daughter, in Netflix's mystery thriller Lost Girls.
In 2023, she appeared in Ari Aster's black comedy psychological horror film Beau Is Afraid starring Joaquin Phoenix. In the film she plays Grace, alongside Nathan Lane as Roger a couple who take in Beau for a brief period of time.
==Personal life==
Ryan gave birth to her first child with fiancé Eric Slovin. Daughter, Georgia Gracie was born on October 15, 2009.[32] She is best friends with actress Patricia Clarkson.[1][19][20][33]
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Role 	Notes
1999 	Roberta 	Judy 	
2000 	You Can Count on Me 	Rachel Louise Prescott	
2000 	A Pork Chop for Larry 	Beth 	
2000 	Law and Order: SVU 	Lorraine Hansen 	Bad Blood - Season 1 Episode 11
2002–2008	The Wire 	Beadie Russell 	
2004 	Keane 	Lynn Bedik 	
2005 	War of the Worlds 	Neighbor with Toddler 	
2005 	Capote 	Marie Dewey 	
2005 	Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World 	Emily Brooks 	
2006 	Shiner 	Mom 	
2006 	Marvelous 	Queenie 	
2007 	Gone Baby Gone 	Helene McCready 	For her role, Amy Ryan won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and many other critics' awards. She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the 80th Academy Awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (Motion Picture), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and other awards.
2007 	Forward 	 	
2007 	Neal Cassady 	Carolyn Cassady 	
2007 	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 	Martha Hanson 	For her performance, Ryan won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Gone Baby Gone), and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Gone Baby Gone).
2007 	Dan in Real Life 	Eileen Burns 	
2008 	Changeling 	Carol Dexter 	
2008–2011	The Office 	Holly Flax 	17 episodes; Guest in Season 4, recurring in Season 5, and starring in Season 7 as Holly Flax.
2009 	Bob Funk 	Ms. Wright 	
2009 	The Missing Person 	Miss Charley 	
2009 	Green Zone 	Lawrie Dayne 	
2010 	Jack Goes Boating 	Connie 	The film was released in USA on September 23, 2010.
2013 	Escape Plan 	Abigail Ross 	
2014 	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Sylvia 	For her performance, Amy Ryan won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble, Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Ensemble, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards for Best Acting Ensemble and many other accolades.
2015 	Don Verdean 	Carol 	
2015 	Louder Than Bombs 	Hannah 	
2015 	Goosebumps 	Gale Cooper 	Directed by Rob Letterman and written by Darren Lemke. The film was a commercial success, grossing $158 million against its $84 million budget, and received positive reviews from critics.
2015 	Bridge of Spies 	Mary McKenna Donovan 	Directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Hanks in the lead role. It received critical acclaim and was a box-office success. The film received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Supporting Actor.
2016 	Central Intelligence 	Agent Pamela Harris 	
2016 	The Infiltrator 	Bonni Tischler 	
2016 	Monster Trucks 	Cindy Coley 	
2017 	Abundant Acreage Available 	Tracy Ledbetter 	
2018 	Beautiful Boy 	Vicki Sheff 	The film stars Steve Carell (played Michael Scott in The Office) and Timothée Chalamet with Amy Ryan and Maura Tierney.
2019 	Late Night 	Caroline Morton 	Directed by Nisha Ganatra from a screenplay also produced by Mindy Kaling (who was a writer in The Office, and played Kelly Kapoor in the show). It stars Emma Thompson.
2019 	Strange but True 	Charlene Chase 	
2020 	Worth 	Camille Biros 	
2020 	Lost Girls 	Mari Gilbert 	
2021-2022	Only Murders in the Building 	Jan Bellows 	Main role (Season 1); The Hulu series also stars Steve Martin (Amy Ryan and Steve Carell both cited him as inspiration), Martin Short, and Selena Gomez.
2023 	Beau Is Afraid 	Grace 	
TBD 	Wolves 	 	Filming
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