Cast
Laura Linney
Acting
Cast
Laura Linney
Known for
Acting
Born
1964-02-05
From
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Laura Leggett 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).
★8.2
MOVIE1998
The Truman Show
as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
★7.7
MOVIE2003
Mystic River
as Annabeth Markum
★7.7
MOVIE1996
Primal Fear
as Janet Venable
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Love Actually
as Sarah
★7.2
MOVIE2016
Sully
as Lorrie Sullenberger
★6.1
MOVIE2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Chief Vincent
★6.6
MOVIE2005
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
as Erin Bruner
★7.4
MOVIE2016
Nocturnal Animals
as Anne Sutton
★6.8
MOVIE2011
Arthur Christmas
as North Pole Computer (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2002
The Mothman Prophecies
as Connie Mills
★6.0
MOVIE2013
The Fifth Estate
as Sarah Shaw
★6.6
MOVIE2007
Breach
as Kate Burroughs
★6.4
MOVIE2007
The Nanny Diaries
as Mrs. X
★6.7
MOVIE1997
Absolute Power
as Kate Whitney
★7.4
MOVIE2003
The Life of David Gale
as Constance Hallaway
★6.5
MOVIE2016
Genius
as Louise Saunders
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Mr. Holmes
as Mrs. Munro
★6.2
MOVIE2006
Annie Oakley
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Red Nose Day Actually
as Sarah (US version)
★5.6
MOVIE1995
Congo
as Dr. Karen Ross
★7.1
MOVIE1992
Lorenzo's Oil
as Young Teacher
★6.3
MOVIE2023
The Miracle Club
as Chrissie Ahearn
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
★7.0
MOVIE2005
The Squid and the Whale
as Joan Berkman
★6.1
MOVIE1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
as Nancy Lambert Newland
★6.6
MOVIE1993
Dave
as Randi
★6.7
MOVIE1998
Tru-Talk
as Hannah Gill
★4.5
MOVIE2017
The Dinner
as Claire Lohman
★7.1
MOVIE1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as School Teacher
★6.9
MOVIE2000
You Can Count on Me
as Sammy
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Man of the Year
as Eleanor Green
★7.0
MOVIE2005
Mary Pickford
as Narrator
★5.6
MOVIE2004
P.S.
as Louise Harrington
★5.4
MOVIE2008
The Other Man
as Lisa
★6.3
MOVIE2002
The Laramie Project
as Sherry Johnson
★7.0
MOVIE2006
The Armenian Genocide
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE2012
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Daisy
★5.7
MOVIE2010
Sympathy for Delicious
as Nina Hogue
★5.3
MOVIE2022
Bonnie
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2012
The Details
as Lila
★5.5
MOVIE2006
Jindabyne
as Claire
★6.7
MOVIE2024
Suncoast
as Kristine
★8.0
MOVIE2018
Olympia
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2000
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
★6.9
MOVIE2007
The Savages
as Wendy Savage
★6.4
MOVIE2020
Falling
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Driving Lessons
as Laura Marshall
★5.2
MOVIE2000
Running Mates
as Lauren Hartman
★6.3
MOVIE2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2020
The Roads Not Taken
as Rita
★6.7
MOVIE2022
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
★4.4
MOVIE1993
Class of '61
as Lily Magraw
MOVIETBA
Onward and Sideways
as Emma Dretzin
★5.6
MOVIE2024
Wildcat
as Regina O'Connor
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Letter Reader
★5.5
MOVIE2007
The Hottest State
as Jesse
★6.2
MOVIE1993
Blind Spot
as Phoebe
★7.0
MOVIE2022
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
MOVIE2020
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
as Narrator
★5.7
MOVIE2009
The City of Your Final Destination
as Caroline Gund
★4.6
MOVIE2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2001
Maze
as Callie
★4.2
MOVIE2013
Morning
as Doctor Goodman
★7.4
MOVIE2001
Wild Iris
as Iris Bravard
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Woodrow Wilson
as Self - voice
MOVIE2020
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE1999
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
★10.0
MOVIE2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt
★9.5
MOVIE2004
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1999
Lush
as Rachel Van Dyke
★7.0
MOVIE2005
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2001
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
as Zelda Fitzgerald
★4.0
MOVIE1985