Laura Linney
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Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre
. Linney has won three Emmy
Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award. She has also been nominated three times for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
.
She received a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of a suburban woman diagnosed with terminal cancer in The Big C
.
in New York City. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née
Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
in New York City, and her father, Romulus Linney
, was a well-known playwright and professor (he died on January 15, 2011). Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney
. Despite her pedigree, Linney grew up under modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment after her parents' divorce. She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then attended Northwestern University
before transferring to Brown University
, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh
and served on the board of Production Workshop, the university's student theatre group. Linney graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
in 1986 and subsequently went on to study acting at the Juilliard School
.
in 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-series Tales of the City
. She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo
, Primal Fear
and Absolute Power
. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, playing Jim Carrey
's on-screen wife in The Truman Show
, for which she received critical acclaim.
In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role in the film You Can Count on Me
. The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget film Maze
with Rob Morrow
. In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, including Mystic River
, Love Actually
and The Life of David Gale
. Her 2004 performance in Kinsey
, as the title character's
wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
.
In 2005, Linney starred in the horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose
and the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale
. For the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy". In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year
, the comedy Driving Lessons
(starring Rupert Grint
of Harry Potter
fame), and the Australian drama Jindabyne
by Ray Lawrence. Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carver's short novel So Much Water so Close to Home.
In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thriller Breach
, the comedy-drama The Nanny Diaries
opposite Scarlett Johansson
and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin
and Nicola Kraus, and The Savages
with Philip Seymour Hoffman
. She received a third Academy Award nomination for The Savages, this time for Best Actress.
In 2008, Linney starred in The Other Man
, opposite Liam Neeson
, with whom she had starred with in Kinsey
and Love Actually
, and Antonio Banderas
.
's Tales of the City
books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award
in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" for Wild Iris. In 2004, she won her second Emmy Award as "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series," for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane
in the television series Frasier
. In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Abigail Adams
, wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-series John Adams
.
In October 1994, Linney guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order
(episode "Blue Bamboo") as "Martha Bowen". She played a blonde American singer who successfully claimed "battered woman syndrome
" as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.
Laura Linney returned to series television as actress and executive producer in Showtime's half-hour series about cancer, The Big C
, which debuted in mid-2010. She stars as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of suffering cancer, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is. She won a Golden Globe award for her performance in January 2011.
and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler
, for which she won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award
, and Holiday in December 1995 through January 1996 (based on the 1938 movie
starring Katharine Hepburn
). She received a Best Actress Tony Award
nomination for her role in the Broadway production of The Crucible
in March 2002 through June 2002. She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen
, in which she appeared on Broadway in May 2004 through July 2004.
Linney also appeared on Sandra Boynton
's children's CD, Philadelphia Chickens
, on which she sings "Please Can I Keep It?", and played La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton
's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses
.
Linney had a three month run on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club
production of Time Stands Still
by Donald Margulies
, from January 28, 2010 through March 27, 2010. She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. The play returned to Broadway with most of the original cast in September 2010 and closed on January 30, 2011.
), a real estate agent from Telluride, Colorado
.
At her wedding in May 2009, actor Liam Neeson
walked her down the aisle, two months after his wife Natasha Richardson
's death.
Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
on January 18, 2009.
She feels that it was necessary for her art to attend graduate school.
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1992
| Lorenzo's Oil
| Young Teacher
|
|-
| 1993
| Dave
| Randi
|
|-
| 1993
| Class of '61
| Lily Magraw
| Television film
|-
| 1993
| Tales of the City
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
|-
| 1993
| Searching for Bobby Fischer
| School Teacher
|
|-
| 1993
| Blind Spot
| Phoebe
|
|-
| 1994
| Law & Order
| Martha Bowen
| Television series; Episode "Blue Bamboo"
|-
| 1994
|
| Nancy Lambert Newland
|
|-
| 1995
| Congo
| Dr. Karen Ross
|
|-
| 1996
| Primal Fear
| Janet Venable
|
|-
| 1997
| Absolute Power
| Kate Whitney
|
|-
| 1998
|
| Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill
| Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama
|-
| 1998
| More Tales of the City
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
|-
| 1999
| Love Letters
| Melisa Gardner Cobb
| Television film
|-
| 1999
| Lush
| Rachel Van Dyke
|
|-
| 2000
|
| Bertha Dorset
|
|-
| 2000
| You Can Count on Me
| Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
|
|-
| 2000
| Maze
| Callie
|
|-
| 2000
| Running Mates
| Lauren Hartman
| Television film
|-
| 2001
| Wild Iris
| Iris Bravard
|
|-
| 2001
|Further Tales of the City
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
|-
| 2002
|
| Officer Connie Mills
|
|-
| 2002
|
| Sherry Johnson
|
|-
| 2003
|
| Constance Harraway
|
|-
| 2003
| Mystic River
| Annabeth Markum
|
|-
| 2003
| Love Actually
| Sarah
| Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
|-
| 2003–04
|Frasier
|
| Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
(2004)
|-
| 2004
| Kinsey
| Clara McMillen
|
|-
| 2004
| P.S.
| Louise Harrington
| Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
|-
| 2005
|
| Erin Bruner
| Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
|-
| 2005
|
| Joan Berkman
|
|-
| 2006
| Jindabyne
| Claire
|
|-
| 2006
| Driving Lessons
| Laura Marshall
|
|-
| 2006
| Man of the Year
| Eleanor Green
|
|-
| 2006
|
| Jesse
|
|-
| 2006
| The Armenian Genocide
| Maria Jacobsen
| Documentary film
|-
| 2007
| Breach
| Kate Burroughs
|
|-
| 2007
|
| Wendy Savage
|
|-
| 2007
|
| Mrs. X
|
|-
| 2008
| John Adams
| Abigail Adams
|
|-
| 2008
|
| Caroline
|
|-
| 2008
|
| Lisa
|
|-
| 2009
| Morning
|
|
|-
| 2009
| Sympathy for Delicious
| Nina Hogue
|
|-
| 2010–present
|
| Cathy Jamison
|
|-
| 2011
|
| Lila
| upcoming film
|-
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1990-1992
| Six Degrees of Separation
| Tess
| Nov 8, 1990 - Jan 5, 1992
Understudy
|-
| 1992
| Sight Unseen
| Grete
| Theatre World Award
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
|-
| 1992-1993
| The Seagull
| Nina
| Nov 29, 1992 - Jan 10, 1993
|-
| 1994
| Hedda Gabler
| Thea Elvsted
| Jul 10, 1994 - Aug 7, 1994
|-
| 1995-1996
| Holiday
| Linda Seton
| Dec 3, 1995 - Jan 14, 1996
|-
| 1998
| Honour
| Claudia
| Apr 26, 1998 - Jun 14, 1998
|-
| 2000
| Uncle Vanya
| Yelena Andreyevna
| Apr 30, 2000 - Jun 11, 2000
|-
| 2002
| The Crucible
| Elizabeth Proctor
| Mar 7, 2002 - Jun 9, 2002
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
|-
| 2004
| Sight Unseen
| Patricia
| May 25, 2004 - Jul 25, 2004
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
|-
| 2008
| Les liaisons dangereuses
| La Marquise de Merteuil
| May 1, 2008 - Jul 6, 2008
|-
| 2010-2011
| Time Stands Still
| Sarah Goodwin
| Jan 28, 2010 - Jan 30, 2011
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
|-
|}
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
. Linney has won three Emmy
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award. She has also been nominated three times for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The award has been presented since 1947, and is for performance in new productions or revivals.-1940s:...
.
She received a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of a suburban woman diagnosed with terminal cancer in The Big C
The Big C (TV series)
The Big C is a Showtime original television series created by Darlene Hunt which premiered on August 16, 2010. It drew the largest audience for a Showtime original series premiere in eight years. On September 20, 2010, The Big C was renewed for a second season which premiered on June 27, 2011...
.
Early life
Linney was born in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
in New York City. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....
Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital...
in New York City, and her father, Romulus Linney
Romulus Linney (playwright)
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV was an American playwright and professor.-Life and career:Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh and Romulus Zachariah Linney III. His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney was raised in Boone, North...
, was a well-known playwright and professor (he died on January 15, 2011). Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney
Romulus Zachariah Linney
Romulus Zachariah Linney was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1895 and 1901.Linney was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, the son of Martha and William Coplin Linney. He attended common schools, York's Collegiate Institute, and Doctor Millen's School in...
. Despite her pedigree, Linney grew up under modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment after her parents' divorce. She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then attended Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
before transferring to Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh
John Emigh
John Emigh is Professor Emeritus from the Departments of Theatre, Speech and Dance and of English at Brown University, Providence, RI. Emigh taught at Brown from 1967 to 2009.-Biography:...
and served on the board of Production Workshop, the university's student theatre group. Linney graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in 1986 and subsequently went on to study acting at the Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
.
Film
Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including DaveDave (film)
Dave is a 1993 comedy-drama film written by Gary Ross, directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Co-stars include Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, and Ben Kingsley. Ross was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay...
in 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-series Tales of the City
Tales of the City (miniseries)
Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin.To date, the first three books in the sequence have been adapted into television miniseries; the first, Tales of the City, was produced by the UK's Channel 4 and was...
. She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo
Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 action adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov, and Joe Don Baker. The film was released on June 9, 1995 by...
, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (film)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American crime drama thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. The film tells the story of a defense attorney, Martin Vail , who defends an altar boy, Aaron Stampler , charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. The movie is an...
and Absolute Power
Absolute Power (film)
Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a thief who witnesses a murder. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel of the same name written by David Baldacci...
. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, playing Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...
's on-screen wife in The Truman Show
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone...
, for which she received critical acclaim.
In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for her role in the film You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me is a 2000 American drama film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town, and her complicated relationships with family and friends...
. The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget film Maze
Maze (film)
Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze —with Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder , who falls in love with Callie , the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend Mike while Mike is away on a long stay in Africa as a doctor.-Development:After...
with Rob Morrow
Rob Morrow
Robert Alan "Rob" Morrow is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Don Eppes on Numb3rs and as Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure, a role which garnered him three Golden Globes and two Emmy Award nominations for "Best Actor in a Dramatic Series."-Personal life:Morrow was born in...
. In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, including Mystic River
Mystic River (film)
Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian Helgeland, based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same...
, Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
and The Life of David Gale
The Life of David Gale
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alan Parker and written by Charles Randolph.Kevin Spacey stars as the eponymous character, a college Professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a fellow capital punishment opponent...
. Her 2004 performance in Kinsey
Kinsey (film)
Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey , a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate...
, as the title character's
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey...
wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
.
In 2005, Linney starred in the horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 American courtroom drama horror film directed by Scott Derrickson. The film is loosely based on the story of Anneliese Michel and follows a self-proclaimed agnostic defense lawyer representing a parish priest who is accused by the state of negligent homicide...
and the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale
The Squid and the Whale
The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama...
. For the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy". In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year
Man of the Year (2006 film)
Man of the Year is a 2006 Comedy film directed and written by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams in the lead role. In addition to Williams, the film features Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black and Jeff Goldblum....
, the comedy Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons is a 2006 British dramedy film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an ageing eccentric actress.-Plot:...
(starring Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is an English actor, who rose to prominence playing Ron Weasley, one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series. Grint was cast as Ron at the age of 11, having previously acted only in school plays and at his local theatre group...
of Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
fame), and the Australian drama Jindabyne
Jindabyne (film)
Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film by director Ray Lawrence and starring an ensemble cast including Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness and John Howard. Jindabyne was filmed entirely on location in and around the town of the same name: Jindabyne, New South Wales, situated next...
by Ray Lawrence. Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carver's short novel So Much Water so Close to Home.
In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thriller Breach
Breach (film)
Breach is a 2007 American historical drama directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay by Ray, Adam Mazer, and William Rotko is based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than two decades, and Eric O'Neill, who worked as his...
, the comedy-drama The Nanny Diaries
The Nanny Diaries (film)
The Nanny Diaries is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, it stars Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, Paul Giamatti, and Laura Linney; and was produced by Richard N...
opposite Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...
and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin
Emma McLaughlin
Emma Lanier McLaughlin is an American novelist.-Private life:McLaughlin graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study...
and Nicola Kraus, and The Savages
The Savages (film)
The Savages is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...
with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...
. She received a third Academy Award nomination for The Savages, this time for Best Actress.
In 2008, Linney starred in The Other Man
The Other Man (2008 film)
The Other Man is a British-American movie directed by Richard Eyre. It stars Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas as competitors for a woman's love .-Plot:...
, opposite Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...
, with whom she had starred with in Kinsey
Kinsey (film)
Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey , a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate...
and Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
, and Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas
José Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...
.
Television
Linney starred as Mary Ann Singleton in the television adaptations of Armistead MaupinArmistead Maupin
Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, based in San Francisco.-Early life:...
's Tales of the City
Tales of the City
Tales of the City refers to a series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in...
books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" for Wild Iris. In 2004, she won her second Emmy Award as "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series," for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane
Frasier Crane
Frasier W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for 20 years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal...
in the television series Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
. In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth...
, wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-series John Adams
John Adams (TV miniseries)
John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
.
In October 1994, Linney guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
(episode "Blue Bamboo") as "Martha Bowen". She played a blonde American singer who successfully claimed "battered woman syndrome
Battered person syndrome
Battered person syndrome is a physical and psychological condition that is classified as ICD-9 code "Battered person syndrome" NEC. The condition is the basis for the battered woman defense that has been used in cases of physically and psychologically abused women who have killed their abusers...
" as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.
Laura Linney returned to series television as actress and executive producer in Showtime's half-hour series about cancer, The Big C
The Big C (TV series)
The Big C is a Showtime original television series created by Darlene Hunt which premiered on August 16, 2010. It drew the largest audience for a Showtime original series premiere in eight years. On September 20, 2010, The Big C was renewed for a second season which premiered on June 27, 2011...
, which debuted in mid-2010. She stars as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of suffering cancer, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is. She won a Golden Globe award for her performance in January 2011.
Theater
Linney's extensive stage credits on BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
, for which she won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award
Joe A. Callaway Award
The Joe A. Callaway Awards are administered by Actors' Equity Association. They were established in 1989 to honor a male and a female actor for the best performance in a classical play in the New York metropolitan area, selected by a panel of critics. The award is given in January and includes...
, and Holiday in December 1995 through January 1996 (based on the 1938 movie
Holiday (1938 film)
Holiday is a 1938 is a film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name. The film is a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family...
starring Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
). She received a Best Actress Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
nomination for her role in the Broadway production of The Crucible
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
in March 2002 through June 2002. She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen (play)
Sight Unseen is a play by Donald Margulies. At its center is Jonathan Waxman, a Brooklyn Jew who has become a very wealthy critically acclaimed artist. Happily married, with a baby on the way, he travels to London for a retrospective of his work...
, in which she appeared on Broadway in May 2004 through July 2004.
Linney also appeared on Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton
Sandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, children's author and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and four music albums...
's children's CD, Philadelphia Chickens
Philadelphia Chickens
Philadelphia Chickens is a book/Music CD combination by Sandra Boynton and Michael Ford, published in 2002.-Tracks/Chapters:-References:*Boynton & Ford . Philadelphia Chickens. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7611-2636-8...
, on which she sings "Please Can I Keep It?", and played La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...
's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Les liaisons dangereuses (play)
Les liaisons dangereuses is a play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their...
.
Linney had a three month run on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club is a theater company located in New York City. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1970 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed...
production of Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still (play)
Time Stands Still is a play written by the Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan about changing relationships and developing social issues...
by Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University...
, from January 28, 2010 through March 27, 2010. She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. The play returned to Broadway with most of the original cast in September 2010 and closed on January 30, 2011.
Personal life
Linney married David Adkins in 1995; they divorced in 2000. In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer (not to be confused with Michigan Congressman Mark SchauerMark Schauer
Mark Schauer is the former U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party.He was previously a member of the Michigan Senate, where he served as the Minority Leader, and the Michigan House of Representatives....
), a real estate agent from Telluride, Colorado
Telluride, Colorado
The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains...
.
At her wedding in May 2009, actor Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...
walked her down the aisle, two months after his wife Natasha Richardson
Natasha Richardson
Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
's death.
Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial was a public celebration of the then forthcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2009. By some estimates the...
on January 18, 2009.
She feels that it was necessary for her art to attend graduate school.
Filmography
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! Role
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| 1992
| Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on a true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, two parents in a relentless search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy...
| Young Teacher
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| 1993
| Dave
Dave (film)
Dave is a 1993 comedy-drama film written by Gary Ross, directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Co-stars include Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, and Ben Kingsley. Ross was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay...
| Randi
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| 1993
| Class of '61
| Lily Magraw
| Television film
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| 1993
| Tales of the City
Tales of the City
Tales of the City refers to a series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in...
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
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| 1993
| Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer is a 1993 film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc. Adapted from the book of the same name by Joshua's father Fred, the film was written and directed by Steven Zaillian...
| School Teacher
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| 1993
| Blind Spot
| Phoebe
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| 1994
| Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
| Martha Bowen
| Television series; Episode "Blue Bamboo"
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| 1994
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| Nancy Lambert Newland
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| 1995
| Congo
Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 action adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov, and Joe Don Baker. The film was released on June 9, 1995 by...
| Dr. Karen Ross
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| 1996
| Primal Fear
Primal Fear (film)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American crime drama thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. The film tells the story of a defense attorney, Martin Vail , who defends an altar boy, Aaron Stampler , charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. The movie is an...
| Janet Venable
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| 1997
| Absolute Power
Absolute Power (film)
Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a thief who witnesses a murder. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel of the same name written by David Baldacci...
| Kate Whitney
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| 1998
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| Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill
| Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama
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| 1998
| More Tales of the City
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
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| 1999
| Love Letters
| Melisa Gardner Cobb
| Television film
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| 1999
| Lush
| Rachel Van Dyke
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| 2000
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| Bertha Dorset
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| 2000
| You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me is a 2000 American drama film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town, and her complicated relationships with family and friends...
| Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
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| 2000
| Maze
Maze (film)
Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze —with Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder , who falls in love with Callie , the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend Mike while Mike is away on a long stay in Africa as a doctor.-Development:After...
| Callie
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| 2000
| Running Mates
Running Mates (film)
Running Mates is a 2000 American political comedy/drama television film directed by Ron Lagomarsino and starring Tom Selleck. The film follows the presidential election campaign of James Pryce, a Democratic Party presidential candidate, who has a hard time deciding on whom to pick as his...
| Lauren Hartman
| Television film
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| 2001
| Wild Iris
| Iris Bravard
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| 2001
|Further Tales of the City
| Mary Ann Singleton
| Television miniseries
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| 2002
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| Officer Connie Mills
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| 2002
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| Sherry Johnson
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| 2003
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| Constance Harraway
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| 2003
| Mystic River
Mystic River (film)
Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian Helgeland, based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same...
| Annabeth Markum
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| 2003
| Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
| Sarah
| Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
The Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast is an annual award given by the Phoenix Film Critics Society.-2000s:*2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring...
|-
| 2003–04
|Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
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| Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.-1970s:Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series...
(2004)
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| 2004
| Kinsey
Kinsey (film)
Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey , a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate...
| Clara McMillen
Clara McMillen
Clara Bracken McMillen contributed to the Kinsey Reports on human sexuality. She was the widow of Alfred Charles Kinsey....
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| 2004
| P.S.
P.S.
p.s. is a 2004 drama film directed by Dylan Kidd. The screenplay by Kidd and Helen Schulman is based on Schulman's 2001 novel P.S. I Love You So Damn Much. The film stars Laura Linney and Topher Grace.-Plot synopsis:...
| Louise Harrington
| Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
The Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama is one of the annual awards given by the International Press Academy.- Winners and nominees :The following listing is based on the web postings of the International Press Academy.- 1990s :...
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| 2005
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| Erin Bruner
| Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
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| 2005
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| Joan Berkman
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| 2006
| Jindabyne
Jindabyne (film)
Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film by director Ray Lawrence and starring an ensemble cast including Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness and John Howard. Jindabyne was filmed entirely on location in and around the town of the same name: Jindabyne, New South Wales, situated next...
| Claire
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| 2006
| Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons is a 2006 British dramedy film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an ageing eccentric actress.-Plot:...
| Laura Marshall
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| 2006
| Man of the Year
Man of the Year (2006 film)
Man of the Year is a 2006 Comedy film directed and written by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams in the lead role. In addition to Williams, the film features Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black and Jeff Goldblum....
| Eleanor Green
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| 2006
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| Jesse
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| 2006
| The Armenian Genocide
| Maria Jacobsen
| Documentary film
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| 2007
| Breach
Breach (film)
Breach is a 2007 American historical drama directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay by Ray, Adam Mazer, and William Rotko is based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than two decades, and Eric O'Neill, who worked as his...
| Kate Burroughs
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| 2007
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| Wendy Savage
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| 2007
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| Mrs. X
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| 2008
| John Adams
John Adams (TV miniseries)
John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of President John Adams's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John...
| Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth...
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| 2008
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| Caroline
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| 2008
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| Lisa
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| 2009
| Morning
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| 2009
| Sympathy for Delicious
Sympathy for Delicious
Sympathy for Delicious is a 2010 drama film, and the directorial debut of Mark Ruffalo. Filming took place in Los Angeles.-Plot:A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.-Cast:...
| Nina Hogue
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| 2010–present
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| Cathy Jamison
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| 2011
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| Lila
| upcoming film
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Theatre Credits
{| class="wikitable sortable"|-
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! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1990-1992
| Six Degrees of Separation
| Tess
| Nov 8, 1990 - Jan 5, 1992
Understudy
|-
| 1992
| Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen (play)
Sight Unseen is a play by Donald Margulies. At its center is Jonathan Waxman, a Brooklyn Jew who has become a very wealthy critically acclaimed artist. Happily married, with a baby on the way, he travels to London for a retrospective of his work...
| Grete
| Theatre World Award
Theatre World Award
The Theatre World Award, first awarded for the 1945-46 season, is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.-History:...
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play was first awarded at the 1974-1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since...
|-
| 1992-1993
| The Seagull
The Seagull
The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
| Nina
| Nov 29, 1992 - Jan 10, 1993
|-
| 1994
| Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
| Thea Elvsted
| Jul 10, 1994 - Aug 7, 1994
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| 1995-1996
| Holiday
Holiday (play)
Holiday is a 1928 play by Philip Barry. It was adapted for film twice. First in 1930, directed by Edward H. Griffith with Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and Hedda Hopper...
| Linda Seton
| Dec 3, 1995 - Jan 14, 1996
|-
| 1998
| Honour
Honour (play)
Honour is a 1995 play by the Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith.It tells the familiar tale of a middle aged man, George, who leaves his wife, Honour, and their 24-year-old daughter, Sophie, for a relationship with a much younger woman by the name of Claudia.It was first performed in...
| Claudia
| Apr 26, 1998 - Jun 14, 1998
|-
| 2000
| Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
| Yelena Andreyevna
| Apr 30, 2000 - Jun 11, 2000
|-
| 2002
| The Crucible
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
| Elizabeth Proctor
| Mar 7, 2002 - Jun 9, 2002
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
|-
| 2004
| Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen (play)
Sight Unseen is a play by Donald Margulies. At its center is Jonathan Waxman, a Brooklyn Jew who has become a very wealthy critically acclaimed artist. Happily married, with a baby on the way, he travels to London for a retrospective of his work...
| Patricia
| May 25, 2004 - Jul 25, 2004
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play was first awarded at the 1974–1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since...
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
|-
| 2008
| Les liaisons dangereuses
Les liaisons dangereuses (play)
Les liaisons dangereuses is a play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their...
| La Marquise de Merteuil
| May 1, 2008 - Jul 6, 2008
|-
| 2010-2011
| Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still (play)
Time Stands Still is a play written by the Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan about changing relationships and developing social issues...
| Sarah Goodwin
| Jan 28, 2010 - Jan 30, 2011
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play was first awarded at the 1974–1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since...
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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External links
- BlackFilm interview (August 2005)
- Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)
- Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)
- Laura Linney Profile by The New York Times MagazineThe New York Times MagazineThe New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
(July 2010) - Laura Linney at Emmys.com