Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan
Age: 42
Height: 5' 4½"
Birth place: Queens, New York, United States
Amy Ryan (born November 30, 1969) 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 role in HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell, and currently In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse, as well as The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax. Contents - en.wikipedia.org
Was nominated for Broadway's 2000 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "Uncle Vanya."Was nominated for Broadway's 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire."Attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center.Graduated from New York City's High School of Performing Arts.Best friends with Patricia Clarkson.Director Sidney Lumet was so impressed with her ability that he cast her in three different roles -- Ellen, Paris - www.imdb.com
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A gifted young supporting actress, Amy Ryan proved herself more than capable at a myriad of character portrayals in many genres. A longtime stage presence and a budding on-screen talent, possessing one of those lived-in, ordinary faces, Ryan was often cast as the reliable housewife, mother, or girlfriend. As a good cop on HBO's gritty series "The Wire," she was able to spread her wings - and flaunt her aptitude for East Coast drawls. But New York theater aficionados finally had an emerging tal - movies.yahoo.com