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Amy Madigan spoke to PEOPLE about how her husband, Ed Harris, has been supporting her amid awards season
Madigan is up for a Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2026 Oscars for her performance in Weapons
She and Harris have been married since 1983 and share a daughter
Amy Madiganis riding high this awards season — and she's had her husbandEd Harris' support through it all.
The actress, 75, scored her first Oscar nomination in 40 years for her standout performance as the villainous Aunt Gladys inWeapons. She also earned Golden Globe and SAG Awards nominations and won a Critics Choice Award for the role.
Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Awards on Feb. 8, Madigan shared how Harris, also 75, is "thrilled and happy" about her recent career accolades.
"As is my daughter, Lily Harris, who's also an actress," she added. "I've had a lot of support, and my really good friends are just on my side, so it's been really nice."
She said her critically acclaimedWeaponsperformance has opened up new opportunities in her acting work. "I'm talking to a few more people, which is very nice," she revealed.
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Harris previously shared his pride over Madigan's 2026 Academy Award nomination.
"I'm the husband of an Oscar nominee. I'm very proud of her," he told theAssociated Pressat the 2026 Sundance Film Festival last month.
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"I think she blew everybody's mind with Gladys," Harris said of his wife's performance inWeapons, a horror movie that follows several characters in a small town weeks after a group of elementary school students go missing.
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Madigan's character, Gladys, an eccentric villain with supernatural powers, became a fan favorite following the movie's August 2025 release. Harris recalled how Madigan's work on set "was all a mystery" to him while she was away shooting in Atlanta.
"She would send me photos, and I'd go, 'Oh, wow. Okay, babe. Go for it.' So she's — it's a little bit nutty, because awards season is so hectic, for a woman, especially, but she's hanging in there," he told AP. "We'll see what happens on the big day."
The couple has been married since 1983 and shares one daughter, Lily.
Last month, Madigan opened up to PEOPLE about her decades-long marriage to fellow actor Harris — and how the two "don't have" any specific trick to making their relationship work.
"We just love each other and we work really hard at that and in our work," she said at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Jan. 6.
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At the time, she also shared her husband's reaction to seeingWeapons— and her unnerving performance in the film — for the first time.
"He loved it," she said. "He's known me a long time and he saw all the parts of myself melded into Aunt Gladys. So, I have a very supportive family, my daughter also, so I'm very lucky."
After she learned of her Golden Globe nomination — her first in 36 years — in December, Madigan said she and Harris were both tickled.
"We've both been doing it a really long time, so we're just both having a good giggle about it. We're both enjoying it," she told PEOPLE.
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