At the 2026 Actor Awards, Amy Madigan played Gladys in Weapons.
Madigan won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her work in Weapons. The award recognized her portrayal of Gladys, a character at the center of the film’s unsettling mystery and intersecting stories.
Weapons was among the nominated films in the supporting-actress category. Madigan’s competitors included Odessa A’zion for Marty Supreme, Ariana Grande for Wicked: For Good, Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners, and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another.
The role is easy to confuse with Madigan’s other acclaimed performances because her career includes many dramatic films and television projects. In the 2026 awards context, however, the winning character is specifically Gladys from Weapons, not a character from one of her earlier works.