Amy Ryan Movies and Career Information

Amy Ryan (born November 30, 1969) is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress 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. Born in Queens, New York City, Ryan is her mother's maiden name. She is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike growing up in the 1970s. At a young age, she 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. Ryan made her off-Broadway debut in the Westside Theatre's 1987 production of A Shayna Maidel, playing the role of Hanna. The following year she was seen in the Second Stage Theatre Company's revival of The Rimers of Eldritch. Additional off-Broadway credits include As Bees In Honey Drown, Crimes of the Heart and Saved. She also worked in regional theater, where she originated