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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