1964-02-05 New York City, New York, USA
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).
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The Miracle Club | Chrissie Ahearn | 2023-07-14 |
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Wildcat | Regina Cline | 2023-09-01 |
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The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later | Self | 2022-11-29 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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A Farewell to Ozark | Self | 2022-04-29 |
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Falling - Q&A | Self | 2021-12-09 |
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Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Self | 2020-06-19 |
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The Roads Not Taken | Rita | 2020-03-13 |
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Hannah Pitt | 2020-10-08 |
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Falling | Sarah (45 Yrs) | 2020-10-02 |
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Olympia | Herself | 2018-11-11 |
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Red Nose Day Actually | Sarah | 2017-03-24 |
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017-03-11 |
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The Dinner | Claire Lohman | 2017-05-05 |
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Nocturnal Animals | Anne Sutton | 2016-11-04 |
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Genius | Louise Saunders | 2016-06-10 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Chief Vincent | 2016-06-01 |
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Sully | Lorraine Sullenberger | 2016-09-07 |
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Mr. Holmes | Mrs. Munro | 2015-06-19 |
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) | 2013-06-19 |
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The Fifth Estate | Sarah Shaw | 2013-10-11 |
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Morning | Doctor Goodman | 2013-09-27 |
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The Details | Lila | 2012-11-02 |
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Hyde Park on Hudson | Daisy | 2012-12-07 |
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Arthur Christmas | North Pole Computer (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
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Sympathy for Delicious | Nina Hogue | 2010-04-09 |
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The City of Your Final Destination | Caroline Gund | 2009-03-21 |
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We Are One With President-Elect Barack Obama | Self | 2009-01-18 |
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Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-14 |
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The Other Man | Lisa | 2008-12-25 |
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Breach | Kate Burroughs | 2007-02-12 |
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The Savages | Wendy Savage | 2007-01-19 |
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The Nanny Diaries | Mrs. X | 2007-08-24 |
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The Armenian Genocide | Maria Jacobsen (voice) | 2006-04-17 |
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The Hottest State | Jesse | 2006-09-02 |
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Man of the Year | Eleanor Green | 2006-10-09 |
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Driving Lessons | Laura Marshall | 2006-10-13 |
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Annie Oakley | Narrator (voice) | 2006-05-08 |
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Jindabyne | Claire | 2006-07-20 |
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Erin Bruner | 2005-09-09 |
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The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman | 2005-10-05 |
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Mary Pickford | Narrator | 2005-04-04 |
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P.S. | Louise Harrington | 2004-10-15 |
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Kinsey | Clara McMillen | 2004-09-04 |
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The Life of David Gale | Constance Hallaway | 2003-02-21 |
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Mystic River | Annabeth Markum | 2003-03-03 |
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Love Actually | Sarah | 2003-09-07 |
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The Laramie Project | Sherry Johnson | 2002-01-10 |
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The Mothman Prophecies | Connie Mills | 2002-01-25 |
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Woodrow Wilson | voice | 2002-01-06 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams | Zelda Fitzgerald | 2001-10-14 |
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Maze | Callie | 2001-11-09 |
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Wild Iris | Iris Bravard | 2001-01-01 |
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You Can Count on Me | Samantha Prescott | 2000-11-17 |
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Running Mates | Lauren Hartman | 2000-08-13 |
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The House of Mirth | Bertha Dorset | 2000-09-23 |
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Lush | Rachel Van Dyke | 1999-01-01 |
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Love Letters | Melissa Gardner Cobb | 1999-05-12 |
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The Truman Show | Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill | 1998-06-04 |
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TruTalk | Hannah Gill | 1998-01-01 |
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Absolute Power | Kate Whitney | 1997-02-14 |
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Primal Fear | Janet Venable | 1996-03-06 |
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Congo | Dr. Karen Ross | 1995-06-09 |
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A Simple Twist of Fate | Nancy Lambert Newland | 1994-09-02 |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer | School Teacher | 1993-08-13 |
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Blind Spot | Phoebe | 1993-05-02 |
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Dave | Randi | 1993-05-07 |
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Class of '61 | Lily Magraw | 1993-04-12 |
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Lorenzo's Oil | Young Teacher | 1992-12-30 |
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Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud | 1985-01-01 | |
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