Laura Linney
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
Actor
as Regina O'Connor
as Kristine
as Chrissie Ahearn
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self / Joanne Woodward (voice)
as Self
as Hannah Pitt
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
as Rita
as Self - Narrator
as Mary Ann Singleton
as Herself
as Claire Lohman
as Sarah (US version)
as Wendy Byrde
as Self - Narrator
as Anne Sutton
as Lorraine Sullenberger
as Louise Saunders
as Chief Vincent
as Mrs. Munro
as Self
as Self
as Laura Linney (voice)
as Self
as Sarah Shaw
as Doctor Goodman
as Narrator (voice)
as Daisy
as Lila
as Self
as North Pole Computer (voice)
as Nina Hogue
as Cathy Jamison
as Caroline Gund
as Self - Guest
as Lisa
as Self (archive footage)
as Abigail Adams
as Wendy Savage
as Mrs. X
as Kate Burroughs
as Self
as Eleanor Green
as Laura Marshall
as Jesse
as Claire
as Narrator (voice)
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Joan Berkman
as Erin Bruner
as Narrator
as Doctor Gupta (voice)
as Louise Harrington
as Clara McMillen
as Annabeth Markum
as Sarah
as Constance Hallaway
as Self
as Connie Mills
as Sherry Johnson
as voice
as Callie
as Zelda Fitzgerald
as Iris Bravard
as Mary Ann Singleton
as Samantha Prescott
as Bertha Dorset
as Lauren Hartman
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
as Rachel Van Dyke
as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
as Hannah Gill
as Mary Ann Singleton
as Kate Whitney
as Self
as Marlene (voice)
as Janet Venable
as Self
as Dr. Karen Ross
as Nancy Lambert Newland
as School Teacher
as Randi
as Phoebe
as Lily Magraw
as Mary Ann Singleton
as Charlotte Connor
as Mindy (voice)
as Young Teacher
as Martha Bowen
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Self - Presenter
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
Director
as Director
as Director