Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye (81)

1943-10-12 | Detroit, Michigan, USA

Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent(2019), The Grudge (2020), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2023). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • House of Abraham
  • 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
  • The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
  • 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
  • Small Town Saturday Night
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  • The Penthouse
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  • Stuntmen
  • American Cowslip
  • My Sister's Keeper
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  • Killer Pad
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  • 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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