Amy Ryan

Amy Ryan

1968-05-03 Queens, New York City, New York, USA 46 Credits

Biography

Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born November 30, 1969), 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 ...

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Wolfs

Wolfs

2024

as Margaret

6.6
Acting

Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart...

Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid

Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid

2023

as Self

10.0
Acting

A documentary about the making of Ari Aster's Kafkaesque epic Beau is Afraid.

Passing Through

Passing Through

2023

Acting

Isolated in his apartment, a gay man embarks on a road trip across the US to deliver a friend’s ashes, but he finds that his journey takes him further...

Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid

2023

as Grace

6.7
Acting

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odys...

Worth

Worth

2021

as Camille Biros

6.7
Acting

Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with...

Lost Girls

Lost Girls

2020

as Mari Gilbert

6.1
Acting

When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen...

Strange But True

Strange But True

2019

as Charlene Chase

6.0
Acting

A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

Late Night

Late Night

2019

as Caroline Morton

6.4
Acting

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over di...

Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

2018

as Vicki Sheff

7.6
Acting

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming d...

Abundant Acreage Available

Abundant Acreage Available

2017

as Tracy

5.4
Acting

After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for gene...

Monster Trucks

Monster Trucks

2016

as Cindy Coley

6.1
Acting

Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect hi...

The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator

2016

as Bonni Tischler

6.7
Acting

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

Central Intelligence

Central Intelligence

2016

as Pamela Harris

6.4
Acting

Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Fa...

Don Verdean

Don Verdean

2015

as Carol

4.9
Acting

Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition...

Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

2015

as Mary Donovan

7.2
Acting

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, ...

Louder Than Bombs

Louder Than Bombs

2015

as Hannah Brennan

6.5
Acting

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad...

Goosebumps

Goosebumps

2015

as Gale Cooper

6.3
Acting

After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series...

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

2015

as Self

7.2
Acting

A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

as Sylvia

7.5
Acting

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...

Clear History

Clear History

2014

as Wendy

6.0
Acting

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He ...

Escape Plan

Escape Plan

2013

as Abigail Ross

6.7
Acting

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival...

Devil's Knot

Devil's Knot

2013

as Margaret Lax

6.2
Acting

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Breathe In

Breathe In

2013

as Megan Reynolds

5.9
Acting

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters th...

Win Win

Win Win

2011

as Jackie Flaherty

6.8
Acting

When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns...

Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating

2010

as Connie

6.0
Acting

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two working-class New York City couples.

Green Zone

Green Zone

2010

as Lawrie Dayne

6.5
Acting

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of ...

Bob Funk

Bob Funk

2009

as Ms. Wright

4.7
Acting

After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who...

The Missing Person

The Missing Person

2009

as Miss Charley

5.6
Acting

John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...

The Missing Person

The Missing Person

2009

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...

Changeling

Changeling

2008

as Carol Dexter

7.6
Acting

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mothe...

Chicago 10

Chicago 10

2008

as Anita Hoffman (voice)

6.0
Acting

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

Marvelous

Marvelous

2008

as Queenie

Acting

After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her ...

Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life

2007

as Eileen

6.6
Acting

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

as Martha Hanson

7.1
Acting

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and ...

Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone

2007

as Helene McCready

7.3
Acting

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hi...

Tapping the Wire

Tapping the Wire

2007

as Self

7.3
Acting

Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a mission ...

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

2006

as Emily Brooks

5.3
Acting

To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what make...

Capote

Capote

2005

as Marie Dewey

7.0
Acting

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

2005

as Neighbor With Toddler

6.5
Acting

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daugh...

Keane

Keane

2004

as Lynn Bedik

6.1
Acting

William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Term...

The Women

The Women

2002

as Peggy

Acting

Mary Haines's life falls apart and her social circle shatters after her husband's affair is revealed. Filmed version of the 2001 Broadway revival with...

Baseball Wives

2002

as Megan Salerno

Acting
You Can Count on Me

You Can Count on Me

2000

as Rachel Louise Prescott

6.8
Acting

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Roberta

1999

as Judy

3.0
Acting

When Jonathan Fishman, a young Manhattan computer specialist randomly encounters a prostitute he is shocked to recognize her as Roberta whom he knew w...

Remembering Sex

1998

as Elaine Devlin

4.5
Acting
In the Deep Woods

In the Deep Woods

1992

as Beth

5.6
Acting

A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begin...