Lin Shaye

Biography

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.

Known For

Grace

Snakes on a Plane

Teacher

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Magda

There's Something About Mary

Sal

Critters 2

Larry's Mom

Surf School

Sally

Critters

Granny Boone

2001 Maniacs

Nurse Bautista

Say It Isn't So

Landlady

Kingpin

Laura Harrington

Dead End

Nurse with Pills

New Nightmare

Nurse Turner

Amityville: A New Generation

Kathleen Slansky

Hate Crime

Larry's mom

Surf School

Carol Miller

The Hidden

Mrs. Bruce

Detroit Rock City

The Madame

Last Man Standing

Rubber Rose Maid

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Ms. Harding

Who's Your Daddy?

Granny Boone

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Ophelia

Frank and Penelope

Darla

Trading Favors

Leona

Killer by Nature

Clara

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

Mrs. Brodrick

Hoboken Hollow

Rosemary

The Temp

Elise Rainier

Insidious

The Aunt (voice)

The Old World

Julie (voice)

Pines

Detective Reeson

Next Stop Murder

Laura Crowley

Contagion

Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 2

Jill

Take Me Home

Joan Pierson

Carrier

Eleanor Roosevelt

FDR: American Badass!

The Wife

The Election

Operator

Three of Hearts

Zelda

Farewell Mr. Kringle

Martha the Bookie

Chasing Robert

Claire

Sedona

Denise Mack

Crazy Kind of Love

Mrs. Jefferson

Big Ass Spider!

Woman

Doggie Heaven

May

3 Days of Normal

Barbara Belnap

All American Christmas Carol

Elise Rainier

Insidious: The Red Door

Elise

A Letter from My Father

2nd Nurse

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

Wendy O'Hara

Down the P.C.H.

Mirabelle

The Signal

Jean Cole

We Are Gathered Here Today

Self

Living with Chucky

Without Charlie

Baglady / Nurse Maleva

Chillerama

Ma Muzzy

Drop Dead Sexy

Woman on Beach

Summer Fantasy

I Was a Teenage Werebear

Gloria

Life's an Itch

Mrs. Hawthorne

Rosewood Lane

Parasol Lady

Goin' South

Repo Boss

The Almost Guys

Cassandra

Bachelor Party Vegas

Self

The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2

Mysterious Woman

Lost Time

Helen

Grace

Mrs. Theodore

Noobz

Mrs. Gilliam

Grow House

Freida

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Museum Guide

Homo Erectus

Journalist at Rally

Brewster's Millions

Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 3

Kane

Remote

Bonnie Johnson

Pickin' and Grinnin'

Paulina Zander

Ouija

Helen Keller

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

Lynn's Mother

Tales of Halloween

A Cry for Love

Inmate

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

Captain Wheeler

Director's Cut

Celeste

Roadside Prophets

Dody

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Frances

The Penthouse

Jeannie

Unbeatable Harold

Sonya the Coach

Boat Trip

Teresa

Jack Goes Home

Nurse

The Possession at Gladstone Manor

Whore

Hester Street

Pauline

Buster's Mal Heart

Max

Scared to Death

Allie

Abattoir

Miss Desmond

Breakfast with Einstein

Mrs. Smith

Texas Heart

Élise Rainier

Insidious: The Last Key

Margie

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Bumble Jackson

Stuntmen

Libby

Attention Shoppers

Stillwatch

Old Paulina Zander

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Bratty Kid's Mom

Lucky Stiff

Nurse with Telegram

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

Anemic Counter Girl

My Demon Lover

Carol Powell

Nature of the Beast

Miss Prin

Pledge This!

Marge

Killer Pad

Jenny Buono

The Hillside Strangler

Nancy Forrester

Driftwood

String's Mother

Asylum

Sunny

Dark Moon Rising

Miss Black

The Black Room

Mrs. Wells

A Cinderella Story

Phyllis Ryan

Small Town Saturday Night

Librarian

Slam Dance

The Grand Lady

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

Bonnie

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

Mrs. Womack

All About the Money

Witness

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Mrs. Neugeboren

Dumb and Dumber

Jinny Macintosh

Wish You Were Dead

Anna

The Midnight Man

Nurse

Chronic Town

Nurse Crotchet

The Three Stooges

Faith Matheson

The Grudge

Waitress

Project: ALF

Meredith

Herbert West: Reanimator

Muriel Miller

Mountain Top

Angela Anderson

Darkness Falls

Kate Hammond

The Final Wish

Foreman #2

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Makeup Babe

Stuck on You

Nurse Adele

My Sister's Keeper

Kate

The Long Riders

Repeat Nanny

Corrina, Corrina

Exotic Car Driver

Cellular

Dr. Sutton

Jewtopia

Violet

Goldberg - P.I.

Joyce

Room for Rent

Self

They Bite!: The Making of Critters

Self

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

Griselda

Gothic Harvest

Jerrie Wolf

Waffle Hut

Cousins

Los Angeles Overnight

Mama

Get Gone

Ruth

Dreamkatcher

The Vagabond

The Voices

Samantha Jones

Confessions of an Action Star

Mrs. Caleron

Me, Myself & Irene

Lou Anne

American Cowslip

Phyliis Cardell

Trial by Fire

Debbie

Matchmaker Santa

Propaganda Officer

The Running Man

Mrs. Wylder

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters

Receptionist at Haven

Alone in the Dark

The Land of the Astronauts

Meemaw

Dead of Nowhere 3D

Herself

The Horror Crowd

Before Memory

Edith Cranston

The Call

Lisa's Nurse

Living Out Loud

Lady Bum

Ambition

Willow

Piggy Banks

Self

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

PTA Parent #3

Pump Up the Volume

Employment Office Clerk

Extreme Prejudice

The Lush

VideoDome Rent-O-Rama

Make up Artist

Brain Smasher... A Love Story

Mrs. Bundy

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Self

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Sandra

Sex and the Married Woman

Amy

A Secret Space

Why Me?

Woman Customer

Mistress

Mrs. Flynn

Book of Love

Tequlia

Barely Legal

Sal (archive footage)

Critters 3

Ellen

The Last Stand of Ellen Cole

Marge

ManFast

Aunt Dottie

Devoted

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

177

Gender

Female

Birthday

1943-10-12

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Linda "Lin" Shaye