Laura Linney
Acting
🎂 1964-02-05
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).
Cast credits(110)
Self
2005
Self
1996
2019
Self
2014
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2009
Martha Bowen
1990
Self
2007
Marlene (voice)
1997
Self
2015
Self
1997
Doctor Gupta (voice)
2005
1988
Self - Guest
1988
Charlotte Connor
1993
Mindy (voice)
1993
Laura Linney (voice)
2014
2003
Self - Guest
2006
Self
2003
Cathy Jamison
2010
Wendy Byrde
2017
Self
2014
Self - Presenter
1956
Self
2012
Mary Ann Singleton
2019
Self
1953
Self
2014
Self
2023
Narrator (voice)
1988
Self - Narrator
2017
Mary Ann Singleton
1998
Abigail Adams
2008
Mary Ann Singleton
1993
Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
1998
Self - Narrator
2020
Self
2022
Janet Venable
1996
Mary Ann Singleton
2001
Erin Bruner
2005
Chief Vincent
2016
Lorrie Sullenberger
2016
Sarah
2003
Annabeth Markum
2003
Anne Sutton
2016
2002
Dr. Karen Ross
1995
Mrs. X
2007
North Pole Computer (voice)
2011
School Teacher
1993
Kate Whitney
1997
Constance Hallaway
2003
Kristine
2024
Joan Berkman
2005
Connie Mills
2002
Randi
1993
Chrissie Ahearn
2023
Young Teacher
1992
Kate Burroughs
2007
Mrs. Munro
2015
Caroline Gund
2009
Eleanor Green
2006
Louise Saunders
2016
Samantha Prescott
2000
Nancy Lambert Newland
1994
Sarah (45 Yrs)
2020
2020
Clara McMillen
2004
Sarah Shaw
2013
Lisa
2008
Louise Harrington
2004
Kristen
Claire Lohman
2017
Lila
2012
Sherry Johnson
2002
Self
2022
Wendy Savage
2007
Regina O'Connor
2024
Bertha Dorset
2000
Lily Magraw
1993
Laura Marshall
2006
Phoebe
1993
Sarah (US version)
2017
Hannah Gill
1998
Claire
2006
Rita
2020
Jesse
2007
Callie
2001
Maria Jacobsen (voice)
2006
Self
2022
Lauren Hartman
2000
Daisy
2012
Nina Hogue
2010
Rachel Van Dyke
1999
Narrator (voice)
2013
Self
2017
Melissa Gardner Cobb
1999
Iris Bravard
2001
Doctor Goodman
2013
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self
2022
Self
2009
Herself
2018
voice
2002
Self
2020
Narrator (voice)
2006
Hannah Pitt
2020
Narrator
2005
Zelda Fitzgerald
2001
1985
