Amy Ryan

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Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born November 30, 1969), also known as Amy Ryan, is an American actress of stage and film.

She is a graduate of New York's High School of Performing Arts and two-time Tony Award nominee. Ryan began her stage career in 1987 and made her Broadway debut in 1993 as a replacement in The Sisters Rosensweig's original production.

She went on to receive Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Uncle Vanya's 2000 revival and 2005's revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Helene McCready was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone.

The role also earned her a Golden Globe nomination and received her a Critics' Choice Award.

Changeling (2008), Win Win (2011), and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) are among her other films.

Beadie Russell appeared in HBO's The Wire (2002–08), and Adele Brousse in HBO's In Treatment (2010).

Early life

Ryan was born Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski of Flushing, Queens, the niece of Pamela (née Ryan), a nurse), and John Dziewiontkowski, a trucking company owner. She is of Polish, Irish, and English descent. Ryan and her sister Laura contributed the Daily News by bicycle while growing up in the 1970s. Ryan attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in upstate New York at a young age. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in New York at the age of 17. Ryan, who was recruited right out of high school for the national tour of Biloxi Blues, spent his entire career off-Broadway for the next decade. She picked her mother's maiden name as her stage name.

Personal life

In 2011, Ryan married Eric Slovin. Georgia Gracie, their one daughter, was born on October 15, 2009.

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Career

Ryan appeared in A Shayna Maidel, a Westside Theatre production from 1987, playing Hanna. In the following year, she appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, the Second Stage Theatre Company's revival. As Bees In Honey Drown, Crimes of the Heart, and Saved are among the many off-Broadway credits. She also worked in regional theater, where she appeared in new plays by Neil LaBute, Arthur Miller, and Neil Simon. She has appeared in The Sisters Rosensweig, Natasha, 1997 revival of The Women, and Peggy in the 2001–2002 revival of The Women on Broadway.

In 2000 and 2005, Ryan was nominated for the Best Achievement by a Featured Actress in a Play, as she appeared as Sonya Alexandrovna in Uncle Vanya and in 2005, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress opposite John C. Reilly in A Streetcar Named Desire.

For her leading role in the Roundabout Theater Company's 2016 production of Love, Love, and Love, Ryan received some of the best reviews of her career. The New York Times praised her "smashing comic appearance" and "The Hollywood Reporter" praised her work as "inethical," and The Associated Press raved that "Ryan is absolutely magnetic... nailing her charming, unpredictable appearance with flawless comedic timing." In an essay about various famous actresses on stage, The Washington Post theatre critic Peter Marks discussed Ryan's participation in the play:

Ryan received the Obie Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance in a Play for her role in Love, Love, and Love, and she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Achievement in a Play.

Ryan was cast in television series I'll Fly Away as Téa Leoni's spoiled stepdaughter after a brief stint on As the World Turns. She made her first appearance on NBC's Law & Order in 1993, appearing in many episodes over the years.

Sidney Lumet, a 2001 film director, starred her in 100 Centre Street in three different roles (Ellen, Paris, and Rebecca). Ryan went on to appear in the second season of HBO's The Wire, portraying Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell. Holly Flax, the dorky HR rep, appeared on The Office for a six-episode arc. In seasons 5 and 7, she reprised her role on The Office.

Ryan appeared in HBO's In Treatment's third season as the therapist for Dr. Paul Weston.

Ryan made her 1999 film debut in Roberta, after the removal of a scene in which she played Eric Stoltz's wife in Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart. She appeared in You Can Count on Me, which starred Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo, as well as Keane, the mystery/thriller. Albert Brooks chose her to appear in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World in 2005, and 2007 brought Dan and Beyond the Devil Knows You're Dead. Her work as a stumbling sheriff's wife in Capote has earned her raves, but it was playing a struggling welfare mother in Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone that gained her national attention.

Ryan's appearance at the 80th Academy Awards was also recognized for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actor Guild Award, and an Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Supporting role.

In Changeling (2008), directed by Clint Eastwood, and opposite Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass's Green Zone (2010). In September 2010, she completed filming for Philip Seymour Hoffman's debut directorial film, Jack Goes Boating, taking over Connie's role in the stage version. Ryan received national critics' accolades for her appearance in Tom McCarthy's Win Win-Wind next year, including numerous regional critics groups.

Ryan was a member of the core cast of the 2014 Best Picture Academy Award-winning film Birdman, receiving the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture win. In 2015, she appeared in Mary Donovan opposite Tom Hanks in the film Bridge of Spies, and in Louder Than Bombs, Joachim Trier's first in English-language debut, she reunited with her In Treatment co-star Gabriel Byrne. Tracy, her first on-screen leading role in Abundant Acreage Available, a rural family drama by Junebug screenwriter Angus MacLachlan, was on-screen early next year. Ryan drew universal acclaim for her appearance at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, with The Wrap noting that she "keeps the screen no matter what she's doing and with whom she is associated" and Flavorwire raving that Ryan "sounds notes that are still stunning in their intricacy" during the film's premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Peter Debruge, the company's chief film critic, dubbed the appearance a career highlight: it's a career highlight, according to Variety chief film critic Peter Debruge:

Ryan co-starred in Beautiful Boy for Amazon Studios, a dark family drama, with her The Office co-star Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. She appeared in Late Night, the Mindy Kaling-penned comedy about a female late-night talk show host (Emma Thompson); and Strange but True, a noir-thriller based on John Searles' book, based on the novel. In Netflix's mystery thriller Lost Girls, Mari Gilbert, a true life woman looking for her missing child, appeared in 2020.

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