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 and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone (2007) and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax. Ryan was born in Queens, New York City. She is the daughter of Pam, a nurse, and John, a trucking business owner. Ryan is her mother's maiden name. She is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Growing up in the 1970s, Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike. At a young age, Ryan attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. At 17, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts. Hired for the national tour of Biloxi Blues right out of high school, Ryan worked steadily off-Broadway for the next decade.
72 acting credits
Acting · 72
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Daily Show
1996
The Office
2005
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
ER
1994
The Wire
2002
Third Watch
1999
Chicago Hope
1994
Quantum Leap
1989
Home Improvement
1991
Only Murders in the Building
2021
In Treatment
2008
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
Wolfs
2024
Broad City
2014
The Naked Truth
1995
Sugar
2024
War of the Worlds
2005
100 Centre Street
2001
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
Escape Plan
2013
Goosebumps
2015
Kidnapped
2006
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
Central Intelligence
2016
Bridge of Spies
2015
Beau Is Afraid
2023
Changeling
2008
Beautiful Boy
2018
Gone Baby Gone
2007
Monster Trucks
2016
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Green Zone
2010
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
2020
Dan in Real Life
2007
A Will of their Own
1998
The Infiltrator
2016
Worth
2021
Devil's Knot
2013
Capote
2005
Louder Than Bombs
2015
Lost Girls
2020
Late Night
2019
Breathe In
2013
Strange but True
2019
You Can Count on Me
2000
Clear History
2013
Chicago 10
2008
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
2015
Bob Funk
2009
Win Win
2011
In the Deep Woods
1992
The Missing Person
2009
Don Verdean
2015
Keane
2004
Tapping the Wire
2007
Jack Goes Boating
2010
The Statement
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The Women
2002
Marvelous
2008
Abundant Acreage Available
2017
Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid
2023
A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016
Roberta
1999
Remembering Sex
1998
Baseball Wives
2002
Passing Through
2023