Amy Ryan Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The capable and effective actress Amy Ryan proved herself adept at a myriad of portrayals in many genres. Ryan was often, though not always, cast as a solid and dependable housewife, mother, or girlfriend, per her contributions to the 2004 Keane (as the impoverished single mother of a young girl...Read More

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The Changeling

Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood's The Changeling tells the story of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The Read More

10/24/08
Chicago 10

Synopsis: The Kid Stays in the Picture director Brett Morgen turns his unique eye toward the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in this 2006 documentary. Using a star-studded voice cast along with a blend of archival footage and animation, Morgen tells the story of the eight demonstrators who were Read More

2/29/08
The Green Zone

Actors: Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary expose of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a Read More

1/1/08
Dan in Real Life

Actors: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson

Synopsis: A widower and father of three who also writes a parenting advice column for his local newspaper falls for the girlfriend of his younger brother during a family vacation in director Peter Hedges' offbeat love triangle laugher. Steve Carell stars as the writer who finds his widely-known convictions Read More

10/26/07
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, Michael Shannon

Synopsis: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. Andy (Hoffman) is an Read More

10/26/07
Gone Baby Gone

Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton

Synopsis: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston Read More

10/19/07
Neal Cassady

Actors: Tate Donovan, Glenn Fitzgerald, Christopher Bauer, Amy Ryan, Hanna Hall

2007
Forward

Actors: Nick Offerman, Amy Ryan, Rona Benson

Synopsis: Amy Ryan (Keane, The Wire) and Nick Offernan co-headline director Cecily Rhett's 13-minute fictional short Forward. The seriocomic work covers a reenactment of the Civil War, in addition to splits in various personal relationships. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Actors: Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, Jon Tenney, John Carroll Lynch

Synopsis: Comic and filmmaker Albert Brooks serves his country while struggling to get some laughs in this offbeat satiric comedy. Brooks plays himself, a comedic filmmaker whose most recent success was providing the voice of a fish for an animated feature and who has just been passed by as director for a Read More

1/20/06
"Marvelous"

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Amy Ryan, Ewen Bremner, Annabella Sciorra, Michael Shannon

Synopsis: A woman discovers she has miraculous powers that make her unhappy life all the more complicated in this independent satiric comedy. Gwen (Martha Plimpton) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a deep funk ever since her marriage fell apart. With nowhere to go, Gwen is living with her Read More

2006
The Wire: Season 04

Actors: Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Sonja Sohn

2006
Capote

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small Read More

9/30/05
Keane

Actors: Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Tina Holmes, Christopher Evan Welch

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan returned after a six-year hiatus with this formally challenging tale of a disheveled man desperately searching New York City for his young daughter. Keane takes its name from its central character, a middle-aged man (Damien Lewis) who wanders Port Read More

9/9/05
Roberta

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Daisy Rojas, Amy Ryan, Bill Sage, Brian Tarantina

Synopsis: Jonathan (Kevin Corrigan) is a computer expert who is a bit shy and lonely, though he's recently begun courting a schoolteacher named Judy (Amy Ryan). One night, Jonathan encounters a Latina prostitute named Roberta (Daisy Rojas), whom he's convinced he knew as a child. Jonathan is immediately Read More

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street - A Case of Do or Die

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A woman is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the day before her wedding. It is up to Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) to determine if the woman killed herself, or if she was murdered. In another investigation, Sheppard (Michael Michele) and Mike (Giancarlo Esposioto) find Read More

1999
Getting Off

Actors: Christine Harnos, Brooke Smith, Bill Sage, David Marshall Grant, Amy Ryan

Synopsis: Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer Sharp (Brooke Smith), and MBA student Elaine Devlin (Amy Ryan) -- learn their old college chum Chris Read More

1998
ER: Love Among the Ruins

Synopsis: A visitor to the ER (Catherine Lloyd Burns) must make a crucial decision after her boyfriend commits suicide, while novice nun Sister Elizabeth (Amy Ryan) likewise finds herself at an emotional crossroads. Elsewhere, the ER staff (and the viewers) discovers that Carter (Noah Wyle) is from an Read More

1995
Law & Order: Jurisdiction

Synopsis: Two murders, one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, have both apparently been committed by a mentally retarded person. The established rules of jurisdiction governing the two boroughs -- and heated arguments amongst the investigating detectives over interrogation techniques -- make it difficult to Read More

1993