
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).
Acting (69 movies)

Absolute Power
1997

Mystic River
2003

Love Actually
2003

Primal Fear
1996

Congo
1995

Wildcat
2024

Lorenzo's Oil
1992

The Mothman Prophecies
2002

The Squid and the Whale
2005

Breach
2007

Jindabyne
2006

Kinsey
2004

Bonnie
2022

Driving Lessons
2006

Dave
1993

The Life of David Gale
2003

The Savages
2007

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005

P.S.
2004

The House of Mirth
2000

The Nanny Diaries
2007

Man of the Year
2006

Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993

You Can Count on Me
2000

The City of Your Final Destination
2009

The Truman Show
1998

A Simple Twist of Fate
1994

The Other Man
2008

Wild Iris
2001

The Laramie Project
2002

Arthur Christmas
2011

Sympathy for Delicious
2010

Hyde Park on Hudson
2012

Class of '61
1993

Lush
1999

Woodrow Wilson
2002

Maze
2001

The Fifth Estate
2013

A Farewell to Ozark
2022

Mary Pickford
2005

Morning
2013

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013

Blind Spot
1993

Love Letters
1999

Mr. Holmes
2015

Suncoast
2024

Running Mates
2000

Genius
2016

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022

Sully
2016

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016

The Dinner
2017

Nocturnal Animals
2016

Red Nose Day Actually
2017

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1985

Annie Oakley
2006

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017

The Armenian Genocide
2006

Olympia
2018

The Roads Not Taken
2020

Falling
2020

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2001

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009

The Miracle Club
2023

The Details
2012

The Hottest State
2007

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
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