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 Office

The Wire

100 Centre Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Third Watch

Quantum Leap

Tapping the Wire

ER

In Treatment

Brooklyn Bridge

Beautiful Boy

Changeling

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Sugar

A Will of their Own

Bridge of Spies

Gone Baby Gone

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

Beau Is Afraid

Worth

Win Win

You Can Count on Me

The Infiltrator

Escape Plan

Wolfs

Louder Than Bombs

Dan in Real Life

Green Zone

Late Night

Central Intelligence

War of the Worlds

The Oscars

Finding Your Roots

The Naked Truth