Laura Linney

Biography

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).

Known For

Kate Whitney

Absolute Power

Annabeth Markum

Mystic River

Sarah

Love Actually

Janet Venable

Primal Fear

Dr. Karen Ross

Congo

Regina O'Connor

Wildcat

Young Teacher

Lorenzo's Oil

Connie Mills

The Mothman Prophecies

Joan Berkman

The Squid and the Whale

Kate Burroughs

Breach

Claire

Jindabyne

Clara McMillen

Kinsey

Self

Bonnie

Laura Marshall

Driving Lessons

Randi

Dave

Constance Hallaway

The Life of David Gale

Wendy Savage

The Savages

Erin Bruner

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Louise Harrington

P.S.

Bertha Dorset

The House of Mirth

Mrs. X

The Nanny Diaries

Eleanor Green

Man of the Year

School Teacher

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Samantha Prescott

You Can Count on Me

Caroline Gund

The City of Your Final Destination

Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill

The Truman Show

Nancy Lambert Newland

A Simple Twist of Fate

Lisa

The Other Man

Iris Bravard

Wild Iris

Sherry Johnson

The Laramie Project

North Pole Computer (voice)

Arthur Christmas

Nina Hogue

Sympathy for Delicious

Daisy

Hyde Park on Hudson

Lily Magraw

Class of '61

Rachel Van Dyke

Lush

voice

Woodrow Wilson

Callie

Maze

Sarah Shaw

The Fifth Estate

Self

A Farewell to Ozark

Narrator

Mary Pickford

Doctor Goodman

Morning

Narrator (voice)

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Phoebe

Blind Spot

Melissa Gardner Cobb

Love Letters

Mrs. Munro

Mr. Holmes

Kristine

Suncoast

Lauren Hartman

Running Mates

Louise Saunders

Genius

Self (archive footage)

Mon Clown

Self

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

Lorrie Sullenberger

Sully

Chief Vincent

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Claire Lohman

The Dinner

Anne Sutton

Nocturnal Animals

Sarah (US version)

Red Nose Day Actually

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

Narrator (voice)

Annie Oakley

Self

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Maria Jacobsen (voice)

The Armenian Genocide

Hannah Gill

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

Herself

Olympia

Rita

The Roads Not Taken

Sarah (45 Yrs)

Falling

Self

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

Hannah Pitt

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Zelda Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams

Self

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Chrissie Ahearn

The Miracle Club

Lila

The Details

Jesse

The Hottest State

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

70

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-02-05

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

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