Laura Linney
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1964-02-05 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting
(2024)
Suncoast
as Kristine
(2024)
Wildcat
as Regina O'Connor
(2023)
The Miracle Club
as Chrissie Ahearn
(2022)
Bonnie
as Self
(2022)
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
(2022)
(2020)
Falling
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
(2020)
The Roads Not Taken
as Rita
(2020)
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt
(2020)
(2018)
Olympia
as Herself
(2017)
The Dinner
as Claire Lohman
(2017)
Red Nose Day Actually
as Sarah (US version)
(2017)
(2016)
Nocturnal Animals
as Anne Sutton
(2016)
Sully
as Lorrie Sullenberger
(2016)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Chief Vincent
(2016)
Genius
as Louise Saunders
(2015)
Mr. Holmes
as Mrs. Munro
(2013)
The Fifth Estate
as Sarah Shaw
(2013)
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
Morning
as Doctor Goodman
(2012)
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Daisy
(2012)
The Details
as Lila
(2011)
Arthur Christmas
as North Pole Computer (voice)
(2010)
Sympathy for Delicious
as Nina Hogue
(2009)
The City of Your Final Destination
as Caroline Gund
(2009)
(2008)
The Other Man
as Lisa
(2008)
Mon Clown
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
The Nanny Diaries
as Mrs. X
(2007)
Breach
as Kate Burroughs
(2007)
The Savages
as Wendy Savage
(2007)
The Hottest State
as Jesse
(2006)
Man of the Year
as Eleanor Green
(2006)
Jindabyne
as Claire
(2006)
Driving Lessons
as Laura Marshall
(2006)
The Armenian Genocide
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
(2006)
Annie Oakley
as Narrator (voice)
(2005)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
as Erin Bruner
(2005)
The Squid and the Whale
as Joan Berkman
(2005)
Mary Pickford
as Narrator
(2004)
Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
(2004)
P.S.
as Louise Harrington
(2003)
Love Actually
as Sarah
(2003)
Mystic River
as Annabeth Markum
(2003)
The Life of David Gale
as Constance Hallaway
(2002)
The Mothman Prophecies
as Connie Mills
(2002)
The Laramie Project
as Sherry Johnson
(2002)
Woodrow Wilson
as voice
(2001)
Maze
as Callie
(2001)
Wild Iris
as Iris Bravard
(2001)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
as Zelda Fitzgerald
(2000)
You Can Count on Me
as Samantha Prescott
(2000)
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
(2000)
Running Mates
as Lauren Hartman
(1999)
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
(1999)
Lush
as Rachel Van Dyke
(1998)
The Truman Show
as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
(1998)
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Hannah Gill
(1997)
Absolute Power
as Kate Whitney
(1996)
Primal Fear
as Janet Venable
(1995)
Congo
as Dr. Karen Ross
(1994)
A Simple Twist of Fate
as Nancy Lambert Newland
(1993)
Dave
as Randi
(1993)
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as School Teacher
(1993)
Blind Spot
as Phoebe
(1993)
Class of '61
as Lily Magraw
(1992)
Lorenzo's Oil
as Young Teacher
(1985)