Actor-Profile

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).

Porsonal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-02-05

Place of birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Social Handle

6.7

Absolute Power

1997-02-14

7.7

Mystic River

2003-10-08

7.1

Love Actually

2003-09-07

7.7

Primal Fear

1996-03-06

5.6

Congo

1995-06-09

5.8

Wildcat

2024-05-03

7.1

Lorenzo's Oil

1992-12-30

6.2

The Mothman Prophecies

2002-01-25

6.9

The Squid and the Whale

2005-10-05

6.6

Breach

2007-02-12

5.4

Jindabyne

2006-07-20

6.6

Kinsey

2004-09-04

5.3

Bonnie

2022-11-12

6.1

Driving Lessons

2006-09-06

6.6

Dave

1993-05-07

7.4

The Life of David Gale

2003-02-21

6.9

The Savages

2007-11-28

6.6

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

2005-09-09

5.6

P.S.

2004-10-15

6.1

The House of Mirth

2000-10-13

6.4

The Nanny Diaries

2007-08-24

5.9

Man of the Year

2006-10-09

7.1

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993-08-13

6.8

You Can Count on Me

2000-11-17

5.7

The City of Your Final Destination

2009-03-21

8.2

The Truman Show

1998-06-04

6.1

A Simple Twist of Fate

1994-09-02

5.4

The Other Man

2008-12-25

7.0

Wild Iris

2001-01-01

6.2

The Laramie Project

2002-01-10

6.8

Arthur Christmas

2011-11-10

5.7

Sympathy for Delicious

2010-04-09

5.2

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012-12-07

4.1

Class of '61

1993-04-12

3.0

Lush

1999-01-01

8.0

Woodrow Wilson

2002-01-06

5.8

Maze

2001-11-09

6.0

The Fifth Estate

2013-10-11

6.5

A Farewell to Ozark

2022-04-29

7.0

Mary Pickford

2005-04-04

4.3

Morning

2013-09-27

6.6

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013-06-19

6.0

Blind Spot

1993-05-02

4.7

Love Letters

1999-05-12

6.5

Mr. Holmes

2015-06-19

6.7

Suncoast

2024-02-02

4.8

Running Mates

2000-08-13

6.5

Genius

2016-06-10

4.0

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

2022-11-29

7.2

Sully

2016-09-07

6.0

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

2016-06-01

4.5

The Dinner

2017-05-05

7.4

Nocturnal Animals

2016-11-04

7.0

Red Nose Day Actually

2017-03-24

1.0

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

1985-01-01

6.2

Annie Oakley

2006-05-08

6.3

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

2017-03-11

6.2

The Armenian Genocide

2006-04-17

6.7

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

1998-01-01

8.0

Olympia

2018-11-11

5.5

The Roads Not Taken

2020-03-13

6.5

Falling

2020-10-02

0.0

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

2020-06-19

10.0

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

2020-10-08

5.0

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams

2001-10-14

4.6

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

2009-01-18

6.3

The Miracle Club

2023-07-14

6.0

The Details

2012-11-02

5.4

The Hottest State

2007-06-27

0.0

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

2005-08-19

0.0

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

2004-06-08

0.0

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

2003-10-31

0.0

Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment

2020-10-29

0.0

But When We Dance