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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 5, 1964
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wildcat | Regina O'Connor |
| 2024 | Suncoast | Kristine |
| 2023 | The Miracle Club | Chrissie Ahearn |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Self |
| 2022 | A Farewell to Ozark | Self |
| 2022 | The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special | Self |
| 2020 | The Roads Not Taken | Rita |
| 2020 | Falling | Sarah (45 Yrs) |
| 2020 | Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Self |
| 2020 | The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Hannah Pitt |
| 2018 | Olympia | Herself |
| 2017 | The Dinner | Claire Lohman |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Sarah (US version) |
| 2017 | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self |
| 2016 | Genius | Louise Saunders |
| 2016 | Sully | Lorrie Sullenberger |
| 2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Chief Vincent |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Anne Sutton |
| 2015 | Mr. Holmes | Mrs. Munro |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Sarah Shaw |
| 2013 | Morning | Doctor Goodman |
| 2013 | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Hyde Park on Hudson | Daisy |
| 2012 | The Details | Lila |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | North Pole Computer (voice) |
| 2010 | Sympathy for Delicious | Nina Hogue |
| 2009 | The City of Your Final Destination | Caroline Gund |
| 2009 | We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self |
| 2008 | The Other Man | Lisa |
| 2008 | Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Breach | Kate Burroughs |
| 2007 | The Savages | Wendy Savage |
| 2007 | The Nanny Diaries | Mrs. X |
| 2007 | The Hottest State | Jesse |
| 2006 | Jindabyne | Claire |
| 2006 | Driving Lessons | Laura Marshall |
| 2006 | Man of the Year | Eleanor Green |
| 2006 | Annie Oakley | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | The Armenian Genocide | Maria Jacobsen (voice) |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Erin Bruner |
| 2005 | Mary Pickford | Narrator |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Clara McMillen |
| 2004 | P.S. | Louise Harrington |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Annabeth Markum |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Sarah |
| 2003 | The Life of David Gale | Constance Hallaway |
| 2002 | The Mothman Prophecies | Connie Mills |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project | Sherry Johnson |
| 2002 | Woodrow Wilson | voice |
| 2001 | Wild Iris | Iris Bravard |
| 2001 | Maze | Callie |
| 2001 | F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams | Zelda Fitzgerald |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Bertha Dorset |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me | Samantha Prescott |
| 2000 | Running Mates | Lauren Hartman |
| 1999 | Lush | Rachel Van Dyke |
| 1999 | Love Letters | Melissa Gardner Cobb |
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill |
| 1998 | The Truman Show: Tru-Talk | Hannah Gill |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Kate Whitney |
| 1996 | Primal Fear | Janet Venable |
| 1995 | Congo | Dr. Karen Ross |
| 1994 | A Simple Twist of Fate | Nancy Lambert Newland |
| 1993 | Dave | Randi |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | School Teacher |
| 1993 | Class of '61 | Lily Magraw |
| 1993 | Blind Spot | Phoebe |
| 1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | Young Teacher |
| 1985 | Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud |