Laura Linney
64 movies · 21 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 5, 1964 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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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).
Known for
Laura Linney: movies and TV shows
Acting (84)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming The Joy of Sex
as Ruth Comfort
- 2026 Onwards and Sideways
as Emma Dretzin
- 2026
- 2026
- 2025 The American Revolution · TV
as Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice) · 5 episodes
- 2024 Wildcat
as Regina O'Connor
- 2024 Suncoast
as Kristine
- 2023 The Miracle Club
as Chrissie Ahearn
- 2020
- 2020 The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt
- 2020 Falling
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
- 2020
- 2020 The Roads Not Taken
as Rita
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017 The Dinner
as Claire Lohman
- 2017 Red Nose Day Actually
as Sarah (US version)
- 2016 Nocturnal Animals
as Anne Sutton
- 2016 Sully
as Lorrie Sullenberger
- 2016 Genius
as Louise Saunders
- 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Chief Vincent
- 2015 Mr. Holmes
as Mrs. Munro
- 2014
- 2013 The Fifth Estate
as Sarah Shaw
- 2013 Morning
as Doctor Goodman
- 2012 Hyde Park on Hudson
as Daisy
- 2012 The Details
as Lila
- 2011 Arthur Christmas
as North Pole Computer (voice)
- 2010
- 2010 Sympathy for Delicious
as Nina Hogue
- 2009 The City of Your Final Destination
as Caroline Gund
- 2008 The Other Man
as Lisa
- 2008
- 2007 The Savages
as Wendy Savage
- 2007 The Nanny Diaries
as Mrs. X
- 2007 The Hottest State
as Jesse
- 2007 Breach
as Kate Burroughs
- 2006 Man of the Year
as Eleanor Green
- 2006 Driving Lessons
as Laura Marshall
- 2006 Jindabyne
as Claire
- 2006 Annie Oakley
as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 The Armenian Genocide
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
- 2005 The Squid and the Whale
as Joan Berkman
- 2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose
as Erin Bruner
- 2005 Mary Pickford
as Narrator
- 2005
- 2004 P.S.
as Louise Harrington
- 2004 Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
- 2003 Mystic River
as Annabeth Markum
- 2003 Love Actually
as Sarah
- 2003 The Life of David Gale
as Constance Hallaway
- 2002
- 2002 The Mothman Prophecies
as Connie Mills
- 2002 The Laramie Project
as Sherry Johnson
- 2001 Maze
as Callie
- 2001 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
as Zelda Fitzgerald
- 2001
- 2001 Wild Iris
as Iris Bravard
- 2000 The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
- 2000 Running Mates
as Lauren Hartman
- 2000 You Can Count on Me
as Sammy
- 1999 Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
- 1999 Lush
as Rachel Van Dyke
- 1998 The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Hannah Gill
- 1998
- 1998 The Truman Show
as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
- 1997 Absolute Power
as Kate Whitney
- 1997
- 1996 Primal Fear
as Janet Venable
- 1995 Congo
as Dr. Karen Ross
- 1994 A Simple Twist of Fate
as Nancy Lambert Newland
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
as School Teacher
- 1993 Dave
as Randi
- 1993 Blind Spot
as Phoebe
- 1993 Class of '61
as Lily Magraw
- 1992 Lorenzo's Oil
as Young Teacher
- 1990
- 1988
- 1985
- 1982
Behind the camera (5)
- 2026
- 2025
- 2019
- 2017
- 2010
Talk shows and appearances (35)
- 2026
- 2023 Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2 episodes
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022 Be My Guest with Ina Garten
1 episode
- 2020
- 2020 Coronavirus, Explained
1 episode
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
1 episode
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017 Masterpiece
149 episodes
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
1 episode
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014 The Men in Blazers Show
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013
- 2012 Finding Your Roots
2 episodes
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
7 episodes
- 2009
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
2 episodes
- 2006 The Megan Mullally Show
2 episodes
- 2005
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
1 episode
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2002
- 1997 The View
3 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2 episodes
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
3 episodes