Laura Linney

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Feb 05, 1964 (61 years old)

Laura Linney

Known For

Wildcat
1h 45m
Movie 2024

Wildcat

Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.

Suncoast
1h 49m
Movie 2024

Suncoast

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

The Miracle Club
1h 30m
Movie 2023

The Miracle Club

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
TV Show 2023

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Actor, model, and global superstar Brooke Shields’ journey from a sexualized young girl to a woman who embraces her identity and voice.

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
0h 41m
Movie 2022

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the special looks at how the film became a beloved Christmas tradition and a global sensation, with new insight into behind-the-scenes secrets and iconic scenes.

Bonnie
1h 23m
Movie 2022

Bonnie

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

A Farewell to Ozark
0h 31m
Movie 2022

A Farewell to Ozark

Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
0h 50m
Movie 2020

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Falling
1h 52m
Movie 2020

Falling

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

The Vote
1h 53m
TV Show 2020

The Vote

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote — a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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).

Acting

2024
Wildcat
2024
Suncoast
2023
The Miracle Club
2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2022
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
Bonnie
2022
A Farewell to Ozark
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Falling
2020
The Vote
2020
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020
The Roads Not Taken
2019
Tales of the City
2018
Olympia
2017
The Dinner
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
Masterpiece
2016
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Sully
2016
Genius
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2013
The Fifth Estate
2010
The Big C
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
2009
The City of Your Final Destination
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2008
The Other Man
2008
John Adams
2008
Mon Clown
2007
The Savages
2007
The Nanny Diaries
2007
The Hottest State
2006
Man of the Year
2006
Driving Lessons
2006
Jindabyne
2006
Annie Oakley
2005
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005
Mary Pickford
2004
P.S.
2004
Kinsey
2003
Love Actually
2003
The Life of David Gale
2002
Woodrow Wilson
2001
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2001
Further Tales of the City
2001
Wild Iris
2000
You Can Count on Me
1999
Love Letters
1999
Lush
1998
More Tales of the City
1998
The Truman Show
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1997
Absolute Power
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
1993
Tales of the City
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Dave
1993
Blind Spot
1993
Class of '61
1985
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

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