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Laura Linney

Biography

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) 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 the Academy Award three times and once for the 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 role in The Big C.

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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) 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 the Academy Award three times and once for the 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 role in The Big C.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Linney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Info

Known For Acting

Gender Female

Known Credits 77

Birthday 1964-02-05

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

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Acting TV ShowsMovies

— Falling
— Molly as Rita
2019 Tales of the City (10 episodes) as Mary Ann Singleton
2018 Olympia as Herself
2017 Ozark (20 episodes) as Wendy Byrde
2017 The Dinner as Claire Lohman
2017 Red Nose Day Actually as Sarah
2017 The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Herself
2016 Nocturnal Animals as Anne Sutton
2016 Sully as Lorraine Sullenberger
2016 Genius as Louise Saunders
2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows as Chief Vincent
2015 Mr. Holmes as Mrs. Munro
2013 The Fifth Estate as Sarah Shaw
2013 Morning as Doctor Goodman
2013 Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
2012 Hyde Park on Hudson as Daisy
2011 Arthur Christmas as North Pole Computer (voice)
2011 Sympathy for Delicious as Nina Hogue
2011 The Details as Lila
2010 The Big C (40 episodes) as Cathy Jamison
2009 The City of Your Final Destination as Caroline Gund
2008 The Other Man as Lisa
2008 Making 'John Adams' as Herself
2008 John Adams (7 episodes) as Abigail Adams
2007 The Nanny Diaries as Mrs. X
2007 Breach as Kate Burroughs
2007 The Savages as Wendy Savage
2006 Man of the Year as Eleanor Green
2006 The Megan Mullally Show (2 episodes)
2006 The Hottest State as Jesse
2006 Jindabyne as Claire
2006 Annie Oakley as Narrator
2006 Driving Lessons as Laura Marshall
2006 The Armenian Genocide as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
2005 The Squid and the Whale as Joan Berkman
2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose as Erin Bruner
2005 American Dad! (1 episode)
2004 P.S. as Louise Harrington
2004 Kinsey as Clara McMillen
2003 Mystic River as Annabeth Markum
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 episode)
2003 Love Actually as Sarah
2003 The Life of David Gale as Constance Hallaway
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 episode)
2002 RI:SE (1 episode)
2002 The Mothman Prophecies as Connie Mills
2002 The Laramie Project as Sherry Johnson
2001 Further Tales of the City (4 episodes) as Mary Ann Singleton
2001 Wild Iris as Iris Bravard
2000 You Can Count on Me as Samantha Prescott
2000 Maze as Callie
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 More Tales of the City (6 episodes) as Mary Ann Singleton
1998 The Truman Show as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
1998 TruTalk as Hannah Gill
1997 The View (3 episodes)
1997 Absolute Power as Kate Whitney
1996 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (1 episode)
1996 Primal Fear as Janet Venable
1995 Congo as Dr. Karen Ross
1994 A Simple Twist of Fate as Nancy Lambert Newland
1993 Tales of the City (5 episodes) as Mary Ann Singleton
1993 Frasier (5 episodes) as Charlotte Connor (1 episode) as Guest Caller - Mindy
1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer as School Teacher
1993 Dave as Randi
1993 Blind Spot as Phoebe
1993 Class of '61 as Lily Magraw
1992 Lorenzo's Oil as Young Teacher
1990 Law & Order (1 episode)
1988 American Experience (2 episodes) as Narrator (voice)
1985 Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1983 Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1 episode)
1953 The Academy Awards (2 episodes)

Production

2010 The Big C (40 episodes) … Producer

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