Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye (81)

1943-10-12 | Detroit, Michigan, USA

Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in horror franchises, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, and Insidious. Shaye attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway.

On Movies

  • The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
  • Scared to Death
  • Insidious: The Red Door
  • Remote
  • We Are Gathered Here Today
  • Frank and Penelope
  • Pines
  • Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
  • The Call
  • Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
  • The Voices
  • Dreamkatcher
  • Darkness Falls
  • The Grudge
  • Gothic Harvest
  • Ambition
  • Get Gone
  • Room for Rent
  • The Final Wish
  • Herbert West: Reanimator
  • Los Angeles Overnight
  • Insidious: The Last Key
  • All About the Money
  • Buster's Mal Heart
  • The Black Room
  • Grow House
  • Mountain Top
  • Abattoir
  • Ouija: Origin of Evil
  • The Midnight Man
  • Director's Cut
  • Texas Heart
  • Jack Goes Home
  • Tales of Halloween
  • Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
  • Insidious: Chapter 3
  • Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
  • Grace
  • Ouija
  • Lost Time
  • The Signal
  • All American Christmas Carol
  • Big Ass Spider!
  • Insidious: Chapter 2
  • Crazy Kind of Love
  • Noobz
  • Life's an Itch
  • Matchmaker Santa
  • FDR: American Badass!
  • 3 Days of Normal
  • Jewtopia
  • The Three Stooges
  • Waffle Hut
  • Rosewood Lane
  • Chillerama
  • A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
  • I Was a Teenage Werebear
  • Insidious
  • Take Me Home
  • Sedona
  • Goldberg - P.I.
  • Farewell Mr. Kringle
  • Black Limousine
  • Next Stop Murder
  • 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
  • Small Town Saturday Night
  • Pickin' and Grinnin'
  • The Penthouse
  • Killer by Nature
  • Dark Moon Rising
  • Stuntmen
  • American Cowslip
  • My Sister's Keeper
  • Doggie Heaven
  • Chronic Town
  • Asylum
  • Killer Pad
  • Chasing Robert
  • Homo Erectus
  • Pledge This!
  • Driftwood
  • Surf School
  • Surf School
  • Down the P.C.H.
  • Snakes on a Plane
  • Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
  • Bachelor Party Vegas
  • Hoboken Hollow
  • Unbeatable Harold
  • 2001 Maniacs
  • Drop Dead Sexy
  • Confessions of an Action Star
  • Hate Crime
  • Born Killers
  • The Hillside Strangler
  • Cellular
  • A Cinderella Story
  • The Almost Guys
  • Who's Your Daddy?
  • Dead End
  • Stuck on You
  • Barely Legal
  • Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
  • ManFast
  • Boat Trip
  • Wish You Were Dead
  • Contagion
  • A Letter from My Father
  • Say It Isn't So
  • Without Charlie
  • Attention Shoppers
  • Me, Myself & Irene
  • Detroit Rock City
  • Living Out Loud
  • There's Something About Mary
  • Breakfast with Einstein
  • Trading Favors
  • Last Man Standing
  • Kingpin
  • Project: ALF
  • Nature of the Beast
  • Trial by Fire
  • Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
  • New Nightmare
  • Corrina, Corrina
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  • In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
  • Brain Smasher... A Love Story
  • Amityville: A New Generation
  • Three of Hearts
  • The Temp
  • National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
  • Roadside Prophets
  • Critters 3
  • Pump Up the Volume
  • Book of Love
  • Lucky Stiff
  • Critters 2
  • The Running Man
  • The Hidden
  • Mistress
  • Slam Dance
  • My Demon Lover
  • Extreme Prejudice
  • Stillwatch
  • Critters
  • Brewster's Millions
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Summer Fantasy
  • Why Me?
  • Alone in the Dark
  • Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
  • A Cry for Love
  • The Long Riders
  • The Seeding of Sarah Burns
  • The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
  • Goin' South
  • A Secret Space
  • Sex and the Married Woman
  • Hester Street

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