Amy Ryan

What I respect most about Amy Ryan is the unglamorous path she chose. A Flushing kid who trained at LaGuardia, started on stage in 1987, and broke into Broadway as a replacement before earning her own spotlight. That tells me everything: she is a craft-first actor, not a celebrity-first one. The kind of performer who slips into a supporting role and quietly steals the scene without seeming to try. At a slight 162 cm she carries outsized presence, and her preference for letting the work speak rather than the press release is exactly why I trust her on screen. A genuine professional.

Name (English)

Amy Ryan

Name (Japanese)

エイミー・ライアン

Reading

えいみー・らいあん

Born

May 3, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Flushing, New York, United States

Height

162 cm

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

High school

High School of Performing Arts

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Ryan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231203

Tags

• New York
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.