Cast
Lin Shaye
Acting
Cast
Lin Shaye
Known for
Acting
Born
1943-10-12
From
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also known as Linda Shaye
Biography
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★8.0
MOVIE2024
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Ellen
★7.3
MOVIE1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Teacher
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Dumb and Dumber
as Mrs. Neugeboren
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Insidious
as Elise Rainier
★6.5
MOVIE2023
Insidious: The Red Door
as Elise Rainier
★5.5
MOVIE2006
Snakes on a Plane
as Grace
★6.7
MOVIE2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Elise Rainier
★6.3
MOVIE2018
Insidious: The Last Key
as Elise Rainier
★6.6
MOVIE2004
A Cinderella Story
as Mrs. Wells
★7.4
MOVIE2022
Frank and Penelope
as Ophelia
★6.3
MOVIE2015
Insidious: Chapter 3
as Elise Rainier
★7.4
MOVIE2009
My Sister's Keeper
as Nurse Adele
MOVIE2026
Insidious: Out of the Further
as Elise Rainier
★6.5
MOVIE1987
The Running Man
as Propaganda Officer
★6.6
MOVIE1998
There's Something About Mary
as Magda
★6.6
MOVIE2000
Me, Myself & Irene
as Mrs. Caleron
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
as Nurse with Pills
★5.8
MOVIE2012
The Three Stooges
as Nurse Crotchet
★5.1
MOVIE2014
Ouija
as Paulina Zander
★6.2
MOVIE2016
Ouija: Origin of Evil
as Old Paulina Zander
★6.0
MOVIE2014
The Signal
as Mirabelle
★6.4
MOVIE2004
Cellular
as Exotic Car Driver
★5.4
MOVIE2019
The Grudge
as Faith Matheson
★6.4
MOVIE1996
Last Man Standing
as The Madame
★4.1
MOVIE2003
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
as Margie
★6.5
MOVIE1986
Critters
as Sally
★6.0
MOVIE2016
Director's Cut
as Captain Wheeler
★6.5
MOVIE1996
Kingpin
as Landlady
★5.2
MOVIE2002
Boat Trip
as Sonya the Coach
★6.2
MOVIE1988
Critters 2
as Sal
★5.4
MOVIE2005
2001 Maniacs
as Granny Boone
★5.7
MOVIE2011
Chillerama
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
★6.6
MOVIE1985
Brewster's Millions
as Journalist at Rally
★6.0
MOVIE2003
Barely Legal
as Tequlia
★7.1
MOVIE1990
Pump Up the Volume
as PTA Parent #3
★6.5
MOVIE2011
Take Me Home
as Jill
★5.9
MOVIE2011
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
as Dody
★6.8
MOVIE1999
Detroit Rock City
as Mrs. Bruce
★5.4
MOVIE2003
Stuck on You
as Makeup Babe
★6.9
MOVIE1987
The Hidden
as Carol Miller
★6.4
MOVIE2003
Dead End
as Laura Harrington
★6.7
MOVIE1980
The Long Riders
as Kate
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Corrina, Corrina
as Repeat Nanny
★4.7
MOVIE2001
Say It Isn't So
as Nurse Bautista
★5.8
MOVIE2016
The Midnight Man
as Anna
★5.2
MOVIE2020
Dreamkatcher
as Ruth
★6.3
MOVIE1987
Extreme Prejudice
as Employment Office Clerk
★5.3
MOVIE1991
Critters 3
as Sal (archive footage)
★3.8
MOVIE2017
The Black Room
as Miss Black
★4.5
MOVIE2016
Abattoir
as Allie
★4.9
MOVIE2004
Who's Your Daddy?
as Ms. Harding
★5.6
MOVIE2013
Big Ass Spider!
as Mrs. Jefferson
★5.4
MOVIE2013
Crazy Kind of Love
as Denise Mack
★6.6
MOVIE2021
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
as Mrs. Bundy
★5.7
MOVIE2015
Tales of Halloween
as Lynn's Mother
★5.6
MOVIE2011
Sedona
as Claire
MOVIE2012
Waffle Hut
as Jerrie Wolf
★4.0
MOVIE2007
Homo Erectus
as Museum Guide
★8.7
MOVIE2022
Pines
as Julie (voice)
★4.7
MOVIE2016
Texas Heart
as Mrs. Smith
★4.8
MOVIE1987
Slam Dance
as Librarian
★5.0
MOVIE2014
Grace
as Helen
★6.1
MOVIE1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Witness
★5.4
MOVIE2017
All About the Money
as Mrs. Womack
★5.4
MOVIE2020
The Call
as Edith Cranston
★6.6
MOVIE1987
Stillwatch
★4.1
MOVIE1998
Breakfast with Einstein
as Miss Desmond
★3.1
MOVIE2010
Killer by Nature
as Leona
★9.5
MOVIE2025
House of Abraham
★4.9
MOVIE2005
Drop Dead Sexy
as Ma Muzzy
★5.5
MOVIE1990
Book of Love
as Mrs. Flynn
★4.3
MOVIE2005
Confessions of an Action Star
as Samantha Jones
★5.0
MOVIE2019
The Final Wish
as Kate Hammond
★4.1
MOVIE2008
Asylum
as String's Mother
★4.7
MOVIE2011
Rosewood Lane
as Mrs. Hawthorne
★4.8
MOVIE2006
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
as Clara
★7.8
MOVIE2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
MOVIETBA
Mascotland
★6.0
MOVIE1996
Project: ALF
as Waitress
★4.9
MOVIE2006
Bachelor Party Vegas
as Cassandra
★5.8
MOVIE1978
Goin' South
as Parasol Lady
★6.4
MOVIE2019
Room for Rent
as Joyce
★5.9
MOVIE1998
Living Out Loud
as Lisa's Nurse
★2.8
MOVIE2007
Pledge This!
as Miss Prin
★6.6
MOVIE2022
Living with Chucky
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1993
The Temp
as Rosemary
★5.1
MOVIE2004
The Hillside Strangler
as Jenny Buono
★4.6
MOVIE1997
Trading Favors
as Darla
★4.7
MOVIE2012
Jewtopia
as Dr. Sutton
★5.9
MOVIE1995
Nature of the Beast
as Carol Powell
★3.8
MOVIE2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
as Granny Boone
★5.3
MOVIE1987
My Demon Lover
as Anemic Counter Girl
★7.0
MOVIE2025
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2002
Wish You Were Dead
as Jinny Macintosh
★6.1
MOVIE2017
Buster's Mal Heart
as Pauline
★5.8
MOVIE2011
I Was a Teenage Werebear
★4.3
MOVIE2012
3 Days of Normal
as May
MOVIETBA
Thread: An Insidious Tale
as Elise Rainier
★4.4
MOVIE1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as Rubber Rose Maid
★5.9
MOVIE1982
Alone in the Dark
as Receptionist at Haven
★7.2
MOVIE2017
Mountain Top
as Muriel Miller
★4.2
MOVIE2018
Los Angeles Overnight
as Cousins
★7.3
MOVIE2026
Scared to Death
as Max
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Small Town Saturday Night
as Phyllis Ryan
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Grow House
as Mrs. Gilliam
★10.0
MOVIE2022
The Quarry: Movie Mode
as Constance Hackett
★5.1
MOVIE2012
FDR: American Badass!
as Eleanor Roosevelt
★5.0
MOVIE2006
Unbeatable Harold
as Jeannie
★2.2
MOVIE2012
Life's an Itch
as Gloria
★5.5
MOVIE1995
Trial by Fire
as Phyliis Cardell
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
as Bonnie
★5.8
MOVIE2013
Noobz
as Mrs. Theodore
MOVIE2007
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2019
Ambition
as Lady Bum
★2.0
MOVIE2010
Pickin' and Grinnin'
as Bonnie Johnson
★4.9
MOVIE1993
Three of Hearts
as Operator
★4.2
MOVIE1987
Mistress
as Woman Customer
★4.0
MOVIE1977
Sex and the Married Woman
as Sandra
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Farewell Mr. Kringle
as Zelda
★5.4
MOVIE2020
Darkness Falls
as Angela Anderson
★5.7
MOVIE1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
as Foreman #2
★4.3
MOVIE1993
Amityville: A New Generation
as Nurse Turner
★6.0
MOVIE2007
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1993
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
as Make up Artist
★4.3
MOVIE2000
Attention Shoppers
as Libby
★2.8
MOVIE2006
Surf School
as Larry's Mom
★5.0
MOVIE1982
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
as Nurse with Telegram
★4.6
MOVIE2009
Dark Moon Rising
as Sunny
★5.2
MOVIE2016
Jack Goes Home
as Teresa
★5.1
MOVIE2009
American Cowslip
as Lou Anne
★4.2
MOVIE2013
All American Christmas Carol
as Barbara Belnap
★5.3
MOVIE1984
Summer Fantasy
as Woman on Beach
★4.3
MOVIE2002
Contagion
as Laura Crowley
★3.8
MOVIE2006
Hoboken Hollow
as Mrs. Brodrick
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Next Stop Murder
as Detective Reeson
★3.8
MOVIE2008
Killer Pad
as Marge
★4.6
MOVIE1988
Lucky Stiff
as Bratty Kid's Mom
★5.5
MOVIE2020
The Voices
as The Vagabond
★5.7
MOVIE2012
Matchmaker Santa
as Debbie
★6.0
MOVIE2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
as Jean Cole
★3.4
MOVIE2010
The Penthouse
as Frances
★6.2
MOVIE1975
Hester Street
as Whore
★5.1
MOVIE2015
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
as Helen Keller
MOVIE2007
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
as Self
★4.5
MOVIE2006
Driftwood
as Nancy Forrester
★4.7
MOVIE2018
Herbert West: Reanimator
as Meredith
★5.8
MOVIE2020
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
as Mrs. Wylder
★5.5
MOVIE1992
Roadside Prophets
as Celeste
★6.8
MOVIE2004
The Almost Guys
as Repo Boss
★6.3
MOVIE2010
The Land of the Astronauts
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Hate Crime
as Kathleen Slansky
★3.4
MOVIE2009
Stuntmen
as Bumble Jackson
MOVIE2010
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
as The Lush
★3.3
MOVIE2014
Lost Time
as Mysterious Woman
★6.3
MOVIE1994
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Inmate
★6.6
MOVIE2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
★4.4
MOVIE2019
Get Gone
as Mama
★10.0
MOVIE1980
A Cry for Love
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1984
Why Me?
★4.1
MOVIE2003
ManFast
as Marge
★5.6
MOVIE2015
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
as The Grand Lady
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Doggie Heaven
as Woman
★9.0
MOVIE1977
A Secret Space
as Amy
★7.3
MOVIE1979
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
as Freida
★4.5
MOVIE2008
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
as Self
MOVIETBA
Carrier
as Joan Pierson
MOVIETBA
Dead of Nowhere 3D
as Meemaw
★5.3
MOVIE2005
Born Killers
as Willow
MOVIETBA
Devoted
as Aunt Dottie
★7.5
MOVIE1979
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
as 2nd Nurse
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Chronic Town
as Nurse
★4.3
MOVIE2006
Down the P.C.H.
as Wendy O'Hara
★5.7
MOVIE2020
The Horror Crowd
as Self
MOVIETBA
The Old World
as The Aunt (voice)
★2.0
MOVIE2007
Chasing Robert
as Martha the Bookie
MOVIETBA
Jackson's Hole
as Netter
MOVIETBA
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
as Nurse
★1.0
MOVIETBA
Before Memory
★4.5
MOVIE2001
Without Charlie
★3.6
MOVIE2019
Gothic Harvest
as Griselda
MOVIE2001
A Letter from My Father
as Elise
★7.0
MOVIE2007
The Election
as The Wife
MOVIE2011
Goldberg - P.I.
as Violet
MOVIE2018
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
as Self
MOVIE2018
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
as Self
MOVIETBA
The Bench
MOVIE2022
Remote
as Kane
★1.0
MOVIE2010
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
as Mrs. Rawlings