Actress Amy Ryan

Amy Ryan is an actress with an impressive number of impeccable credits.

She broke thorough in the movies in the year 2000 in a small role in the family drama You Can Count On Me, but her first major success was a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the mother of a kidnapped girl in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone. The role also got Ms. Ryan a Golden Globe nomination and won her a Critics' Choice Award. 

Ms. Ryan has appeared in numerous movies since, some of her most notable credits being Clint Eastwood's 2008 movie Changeling and 2011's Win Win (as the wife of a lawyer moonlighting as a wrestling coach), which earned her a Best Supporting Actress award from the Utah Film Critics Association.  Her role as Sylvia in the satirical thespian 2014 movie Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) was a really big deal.  Her role in this movie, about a fading blockbuster-movie star trying to be taken seriously as an actor in a Broadway play, earned her and the rest of the cast eleven awards for best cast and best ensemble from several cinema societies.    

Speaking of the theater, Ms. Ryan has also proved her mettle on the stage, having been nominated for the Tony Award Ryan was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance  as Sonya Alexandrovna in a 2000 Broadway production Uncle Vanya and for her role as Stella Kowalski in 2 005 production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Her TV credits include her role as Baltimore Port Authority officer Beadie Russell in the HBO series "The Wire" from 2002 to 2008, and as Holly Flax - a woman who, horror of horrors, has a lot in common with and eventually marries the utterly clueless Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, in the NBC sitcom "The Office" from 2008 to 2011.  She and Carell would star in 2018 movie Beautiful Boy, about journalist David Sheff, his wife Vicki, and their attempts to deal with their drug-addicted son, based on David Sheff's memoir of the same name.  Carell and Ms. Ryan played the Sheffs.  (Sheff - best known for conducting one of John Lennon's last interviews - likely got the title "Beautiful Boy" from John Lennon's song about his younger son Sean.)

Her latest project, a role in "Only Murders in the Building," in a TV series starring Steve Martin and Martin Short about people with an obsession with true-crime stores who suddenly find themselves in one, debuted on Hulu at the end of August 2021 (last week as of this posting).