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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Gender Female

Known Credits 68

Birthday 1964-02-05

Place of Birth New York City - New York - USA

Adult Actor False

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Acting TV Shows Movies

2017

as Claire

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

as Mrs. Munro

2013		The Fifth Estate as Sarah Shaw
2013		Morning
2013		Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Herself - Narrator

2012		Hyde Park on Hudson as Daisy
2012		The Details as Lila

2011		Sympathy for Delicious as Nina Hogue
2011		Arthur Christmas as North Pole Computer (voice)

2010

— (40 episodes) as Cathy Jamison

2009

as Caroline Gund

2008		The Other Man as Lisa
2008		John Adams as Abigail Adams
2008		John Adams — (9 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		Driving Lessons as Laura Marshall

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 as Mary Ann Singleton
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 — (1 episode) as Mary Ann Singleton
1998		The Truman Show as Meryl Burbank / 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

as Dr. Karen Ross

1994

as Nancy Lambert Newland

1993		Frasier — (2 episodes)
1993		Searching for Bobby Fischer as School Teacher
1993		Tales of the City
1993		Dave as Randi
1993		Blind Spot as Phoebe
1993		Class of '61 as Lily Magraw

1992

as Young Teacher

1990

— (1 episode)

1986

— (0 episodes) as Zelda Fitzgerald

1983

— (1 episode)

1929

— (2 episodes)

1900

— (26 episodes) as Mary Ann Singleton

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