Laura Linney

Laura Linney (61)

1964-02-05 | New York City, New York, USA

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible, the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004), Time Stands Still (2010), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2020), and the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–04) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark. Linney is also an established film actress. She made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007). She's also known for her performances in Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River and Love Actually (both 2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Mr. Holmes (2015), Sully and Nocturnal Animals (both 2016).

On Movies

  • Wildcat
  • Suncoast
  • The Miracle Club
  • The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
  • Falling
  • The Roads Not Taken
  • The Dinner
  • Red Nose Day Actually
  • Nocturnal Animals
  • Sully
  • Genius
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
  • Mr. Holmes
  • The Fifth Estate
  • Morning
  • Hyde Park on Hudson
  • The Details
  • Arthur Christmas
  • Sympathy for Delicious
  • The City of Your Final Destination
  • The Other Man
  • The Savages
  • The Nanny Diaries
  • The Hottest State
  • Breach
  • Man of the Year
  • Driving Lessons
  • Jindabyne
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  • P.S.
  • Kinsey
  • Mystic River
  • Love Actually
  • The Life of David Gale
  • The Mothman Prophecies
  • The Laramie Project
  • Maze
  • Wild Iris
  • You Can Count on Me
  • The House of Mirth
  • Running Mates
  • Love Letters
  • The Truman Show
  • The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
  • Absolute Power
  • Primal Fear
  • Congo
  • A Simple Twist of Fate
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer
  • Dave
  • Blind Spot
  • Class of '61
  • Lorenzo's Oil
  • Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

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