Amy Ryan

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Amy Ryan (2007)

Amy Ryan (born November 30, 1969 in Queens , New York City ) is an American actress . In addition to her theater work, which earned her two Tony nominations (2000 and 2005), she has appeared in more than 40 film and television productions since the early 1990s. For her supporting role in the feature film Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Game (2007), she received several awards and was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Award .

biography

Education and theater career

Amy Ryan grew up in Queens. Inspired by a theater performance of the musical A Chorus Line , she had the desire to work as an actress as a child. She attended New York High School of the Performing Arts , where Seth Gilliam was a fellow student, and was discovered by an agent before she graduated from high school. Ryan then proposed to study at New York University and initially went instead with the comedy Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon in the role of Daisy on a tour of the United States. She then completed her further acting training at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center , which u. a. for such well-known actors as Robert Downey Jr. , Felicity Huffman and Mary Stuart Masterson as a career springboard. From the late 1980s she appeared in off-Broadway theater productions.

In the 1990s, Ryan received first engagements as an understudy on Broadway , including as Tess Goode in the premiere of the award-winning play The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein and as Natalia in the new production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters . Ryan paved her breakthrough as a stage actress in 2000 again with a Chekhov production: Michael Mayer's Uncle Vanya at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York , where she appeared alongside Derek Jacobi , Laura Linney and Rita Gam . For her portrayal of the worker Sonya she received the praise of the New York theater critics and her first nomination for a Tony Award , the most important US theater award .

After this success, Ryan reconsidered her choice of roles and appeared from now on in fewer but higher quality roles, including in re-performances on Off-Broadway, such as in 2001 in Beth Henley's tragic comedy Crimes of the Heart and in Edward Bonds Saved . In 2005 she was nominated for a second Tony Award for her interpretation of Stella in Edward Hall's production of Tennessee Williams ' Endstation Sehnsucht at the side of John C. Reilly and Natasha Richardson . A year later, she won renewed critical acclaim for the lead role of Becca in the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's drama Rabbit Hole . Cynthia Nixon had previously played the role of a stylish New York housewife confronted with the death of her son on Broadway.

Film and television work

In parallel to her work at the theater, Amy Ryan began to appear regularly in American television series and films from the early 1990s. In addition to guest roles in well-known series such as As the World Turns (1990), Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme (1995) and Chicago Hope - Endstation Hope (1998), she received a recurring role as the scheming, pregnant ex-girlfriend of Peter Simmons in 1992 NBC series I'll Fly Away (1991-1993). She made her cinema debut in 1999 as a friend of Kevin Corrigan in Eric Mandelbaum's drama Roberta , which was followed by major roles in the award-winning US independent films You Can Count on Me (2000), Keane (2004) and Bennett Miller's Capote (2005) u. a. Abigail Breslin , Chris Cooper , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo were her film partners.

Amy Ryan became known to a wide television audience through the recurring role of port cop Beatrice "Beadie" Russell on the HBO series The Wire , which she has played since the beginning of the second season in 2003. With the directorial debut of Ben Affleck , the crime drama Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Game , her success as a film actress set in 2007. In the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane , Ryan played a supporting role as a single, drug-addicted mother from the Boston lower class, whose four-year-old daughter has disappeared.

The New York Times rated Ryan's role of Helene McCready in its film review as a “courageous, sensational acting performance” in which she plays with stereotypes of the “bad woman” and the sympathies of the audience. The Boston Globe listed her as a possible candidate for a nomination in the category Best Supporting Actress for the 2008 Academy Awards . Ryan was then also nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe and received numerous awards from American film critic associations, including the prestigious National Board of Review , the New York Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association .

In the same year Ryan was represented in four other theatrical productions, including in Sidney Lumet's crime drama Deadly Decision - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead , again alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and alongside Ethan Hawke , and in Noah Buschel's biography Neal Cassady as the wife of the eponymous beatnik -Idols. In 2008 she was a member of the cast of Clint Eastwoods based on a true case-based thriller The Strange Son, alongside Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, and played a recurring role in the television series The Office (2008-2011) as Holly Flax . Her performance as the object of desire for lead actor Steve Carell earned her a nomination for Best Comedy Actress at the Monte Carlo Television Festival . In 2010 Ryan starred as the shy friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman in his romantic comedy Jack in Love and as a naive reporter in Paul Greengrass ' political thriller Green Zone . In the same year followed a recurring role as a therapist at the side of Gabriel Byrne in the television series In Treatment - The Therapist . In 2011, Ryan starred in the sports comedy Win Win as the straight-forward wife of Paul Giamatti , while in the same year she was hailed as one of the most interesting actresses in contemporary American cinema by film critic John Patterson ( The Guardian ), who she shared with well-known European actresses as Isabelle Huppert , Liv Ullmann or Hanna Schygulla compared.

Amy Ryan has been married to New York comedy writer Eric Slovin since 2011. A daughter (* 2009) comes from the relationship. Before that, she had been in a relationship with her Irish colleague Brían F. O'Byrne for many years.

Plays (selection)

  • 1988: The Rimers of Eldritch
  • 1993–1994: The Sisters Rosensweig (Broadway)
  • 1994: London Suite
  • 1997: Three Sisters ( The Three Sisters ; Broadway)
  • 1997-1998: As Bees in Honey Drown
  • 2000: Uncle Vanya ( Uncle Vanya ; Broadway)
  • 2001: Saved ( Saved )
  • 2001: Crimes of the Heart
  • 2001–2002: The Women (Broadway)
  • 2005: Endstation Sehnsucht ( A Streetcar Named Desire ; Broadway)
  • 2006: Rabbit Hole

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

Tony Award

  • 2000: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a play for Uncle Vanya
  • 2005: Nominated as best supporting actress in a play for Endstation Sehnsucht

Further

Web links

Commons : Amy Ryan  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Amy Ryan at moviesonline.ca (English).
  2. ^ Schaefer, Stephen: Accent on success: Amy Ryan talks the talk in 'Gone Baby Gone' . In: Boston Herald, October 15, 2007, The Edge, p. 031.
  3. ↑ Salamone, Gina. Ryan's home 'Win' . In: Daily News (New York), March 14, 2011, p. 39.
  4. ↑ a b Riley, Jenelle: Disappearing Act at backstage.com (English).
  5. ↑ Stagedoor Manor Reunion on July 24th at broadwayworld.com (English).
  6. ↑ Heilpern, John: The Great Uncle Vanya Meets A Wrecking Ball Production . In: New York Observer, May 8, 2000, Art & Entertainment.
  7. ^ Brantley, Ben: Theater Review: Chekhov Is Recast; Laughter Plays Painkiller. In: The New York Times, May 1, 2000, Section E, Page 1, Column 1, The Arts / Cultural Desk.
  8. ^ McNulty, Charles: Theater Review: Down a 'Rabbit Hole' for reflections on grief . In: Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2006, Calendar Desk, Part E, p. 1.
  9. ↑ Dargis, Manohla : Human Frailty and Pain On Boston's Mean Streets . In: The New York Times, October 19, 2007, Section E, Column 0, Movies, Performing Arts / Weekend Desk, p. 8.
  10. ↑ Burr, Ty: With crime thriller 'Gone Baby Gone,' Ben Affleck returns home and captures Boston in all its gritty glory . In: The Boston Globe, October 17, 2007, Livingarts, p. F1.
  11. ↑ Patterson, John: Film: Whether she's playing a goofy sitcom girlfriend, a racist junkie mother or a shy lover, Amy Ryan always steals the show for John Patterson . In: The Guardian , October 29, 2011, p. 23.
  12. ↑ https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/amy-ryan-hollywood-motherhood-and-being-unemployed-26786543.html
  13. ^ Marks, Peter: Amy Ryan, unceremoniously working her way to the top . In: The Washington Post , October 10, 2010, p. E01.
  14. ↑ Cashill, Robert: Committing Crimes: Amy Ryan, Caught in the Act ( November 8, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive ) at playbill.com, April 13, 2001 (accessed April 21, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Ryan, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York City , New York , United States