Amy Ryan

Known for ActingBorn 1968-05-03 (age 58)Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born May 3, 1968), 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid

Baseball Wives

The Women

Rick and Morty

The Wire

The Office

Only Murders in the Building

100 Centre Street

Tapping the Wire

Homicide: Life on the Street

Third Watch

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Quantum Leap

In Treatment

ER

Beautiful Boy

Brooklyn Bridge

Changeling

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A Will of their Own

Bridge of Spies

Sugar

Gone Baby Gone

Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)

Broad City

Home Improvement

Kidnapped

Law & Order

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Chicago Hope

Capote

Beau Is Afraid

Worth

Win Win

You Can Count on Me

The Infiltrator

Escape Plan

Wolfs

Sesame Street

Dan in Real Life

War of the Worlds

The Oscars

Louder Than Bombs

Green Zone

Late Night

Central Intelligence