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

Only Murders in the Building

The Wire

The Office

100 Centre Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Quantum Leap

Third Watch

Tapping the Wire

ER

Beautiful Boy

In Treatment

Brooklyn Bridge

Changeling

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Sugar

A Will of their Own

Gone Baby Gone

Bridge of Spies

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

Home Improvement

Broad City

Kidnapped

Law & Order

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Chicago Hope

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Capote

Worth

Beau Is Afraid

Win Win

You Can Count on Me

Escape Plan

The Infiltrator

Wolfs

Louder Than Bombs

Dan in Real Life

War of the Worlds

Green Zone

Late Night

Central Intelligence

The Oscars

The Naked Truth

Goosebumps