Amy Madigan and Ed Harris
in movie Big Red
According to a report in Variety,The
family drama movie Big Red which wriiten and directed
by Mike Pavone.In this movie,Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
will join Randy Orton.
The movie, set in the mid-1960s, focuses on a bright
12-year-old boy whose English teacher (Harris) pairs
him up on a project with the school’s biggest outcast
and social pariah, a child known as “Big Red.” Madigan
will play the school principal, and Orton will portray
the father of another child at the school.
Overview
Date of Birth: 11 September 1950, Chicago, Illinois,
USA
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!"
Personal Quotes
"I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys
got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggresive
and very competitive at a young age."
 
About Amy Madigan
Amy Madigan (born September 11,
1950) is an American actress who is known for her role
as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and
Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale.
Madigan was born in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Dolores,
a union worker, and Television Host John Madigan, a
Chicago-area political analyst, newspaper journalist,
broadcast and media personality and lawyer. Madigan
studied philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, piano at the The Music Conservatory of Chicago
College of Performing Arts, and also attended the Lee
Strasberg Theatre Institute. She moved to Los Angeles
in 1970.
Madigan was nominated for an Oscar for her performance
in the 1985 film Twice in a Lifetime. From 2003 to 2005,
she starred in the HBO series Carnivàle as Iris Crowe,
the sister of sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe
(Clancy Brown). Madigan also played keyboard, percussions,
and vocals behind Steve Goodman on tour throughout the
late '70s. Later she briefly recorded with Danny Sheridan's
Eli Radish Band replacing former Pure Prarie League
vocalist Starr Smith. She was (with singers Fred Bliffert
and Jesse Roe) one-third of the group Jelly whose only
album, A True Story, was released by Asylum in 1977.
At the 71st Academy Awards, Madigan was one of several
performers who refused to applaud Elia Kazan, due to
his controversial activities during his career.
Madigan has served on the national board of NARAL Pro-Choice
America, a pro-choice/women's' rights organization.
Madigan has been married to actor Ed Harris since 1983.
The couple have one child together, a daughter, Lily.
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