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 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.
Amy Ryan Biography / Wiki
| Name | Amy Ryan |
| Also Know | Ðми Райан, Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Queens, New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1968-05-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday |
Amy Ryan Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Abundant Acreage Available | Tracy | 2017-09-29 | 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… |
| Strange but True | Charlene Chase | 2019-10-17 | A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she’s pregnant with his child…. |
| Lost Girls | Mari Gilbert | 2020-01-28 | When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen… |
| The Missing Person | Miss Charley | 2009-01-16 | Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man’s identity as a missing p… |
| Neal Cassady | Carolyn Cassady | 2007-10-11 | The story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” came out. Deals primarily with Neal’s relationship to his fictional alte… |
| Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World | Emily Brooks | 2005-12-15 | 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… |
| Worth | Camille Biros | 2021-07-21 | Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with… |
| Disappointment Blvd. | An intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time…. | ||
| Keane | Lynn Bedik | 2005-09-09 | A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearanc… |
| Bob Funk | Ms. Wright | 2009-03-20 | 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… |
| Win Win | Jackie Flaherty | 2011-03-18 | 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… |
| Breathe In | Megan Reynolds | 2013-01-18 | 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… |
| Don Verdean | Carol | 2015-12-01 | 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 | Mary Donovan | 2015-10-15 | 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, … |
| Central Intelligence | Pamela Harris | 2016-06-15 | After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage…. |
| Monster Trucks | Cindy Coley | 2016-12-21 | 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… |
| Green Zone | Lawrie Dayne | 2010-03-11 | 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 … |
| Goosebumps | Gale Cooper | 2015-08-05 | 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… |
| Marvelous | Queenie | 2008-02-08 | 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 … |
| Beautiful Boy | Vicki Sheff | 2018-10-12 | 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… |
| Jack Goes Boating | Connie | 2010-09-23 | A limo driver’s blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two working-class New York City couples…. |
| Remembering Sex | Elaine Devlin | 1998-09-17 | … |
| Louder Than Bombs | Hannah Brennan | 2015-10-01 | 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… |
| Gone Baby Gone | Helene McCready | 2007-06-06 | 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… |
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Sylvia | 2014-10-17 | 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… |
| The Infiltrator | Bonni Tischler | 2016-07-13 | A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar…. |
| Changeling | Carol Dexter | 2008-01-30 | Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn’t her child, … |
| Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead | Martha Hanson | 2007-09-26 | 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 … |
| Devil’s Knot | Margaret Lax | 2013-05-09 | 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…. |
| In the Deep Woods | Beth | 1992-10-26 | 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… |
| The Women | Peggy (Mrs. John Day) | 2002-06-18 | 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… |
| Capote | Marie Dewey | 2005-09-30 | A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood”…. |
| Clear History | Wendy | 2013-08-10 | 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 … |
| Late Night | Caroline Morton | 2019-01-25 | 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… |
| Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings) | Herself | 2015-05-18 | A making-of documentary for the 2014 film “Birdman”…. |
| Escape Plan | Abigail Ross | 2013-10-09 | Ray Breslin is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival… |
| You Can Count on Me | Rachel Louise Prescott | 2000-11-17 | A single mother’s life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town…. |
| Dan in Real Life | Eileen | 2007-10-26 | 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 precociou… |
| War of the Worlds | Neighbor With Toddler | 2005-06-28 | 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… |
Amy Ryan Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Missing Person | Executive Producer | 2009-01-16 | Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man’s identity as a missing p… |
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