Laura Linney
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.745 |
| Birthday | 1964-02-05 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | 로라 리니, לורה ליני, 蘿拉·琳妮, لورا لینی, |
1997
Absolute Power
6.6/1115
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...
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2003
Mystic River
7.744/6817
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
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Mystic River
2003
Love Actually
7.107/6906
Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships c...
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Love Actually
1996
Primal Fear
7.7/3451
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has...
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Primal Fear
1995
Congo
5.6/896
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers...
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2024
Wildcat
5.906/16
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Wildcat
1992
Lorenzo's Oil
7.1/533
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the...
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Lorenzo's Oil
2002
The Mothman Prophecies
6.2/1137
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose reside...
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The Mothman Prophecies
2005
The Squid and the Whale
6.9/977
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing w...
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The Squid and the Whale
2007
Breach
6.6/593
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Breach
2006
Jindabyne
5.4/71
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Jindabyne
2004
Kinsey
6.609/473
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...
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Kinsey
2022
Bonnie
3/1
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
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2006
Driving Lessons
6.1/161
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1993
Dave
6.7/763
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Dave
2003
The Life of David Gale
7.4/2042
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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The Life of David Gale
2007
The Savages
6.85/394
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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The Savages
2005
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
6.59/2818
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2004
P.S.
5.5/73
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2000
The House of Mirth
6.219/73
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her fri...
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The House of Mirth
2007
The Nanny Diaries
6.4/1156
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, an...
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The Nanny Diaries
2006
Man of the Year
5.9/460
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Man of the Year
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
7.1/579
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
2000
You Can Count on Me
6.8/307
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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You Can Count on Me
2009
The City of Your Final Destination
5.7/51
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1998
The Truman Show
8.1/18676
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running,...
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1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
6.1/114
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A Simple Twist of Fate
2008
The Other Man
5.4/229
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
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The Other Man
2001
Wild Iris
7.4/5
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
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Wild Iris
2002
The Laramie Project
6.5/53
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The Laramie Project
2011
Arthur Christmas
6.763/1507
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Arthur Christmas
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
5.8/34
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2012
Hyde Park on Hudson
5.259/195
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Hyde Park on Hudson
1993
Class of '61
4.4/11
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot invo...
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Class of '61
1999
Lush
0/0
Among the rich in New Orleans, it's the lush life for Lionel Exley, a golf hustler and heavy drinker. Released from an Arkansas jail, "Ex" returns to...
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Lush
2002
Woodrow Wilson
8/1
A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, h...
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Woodrow Wilson
2001
Maze
5.7/9
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Maze
2013
The Fifth Estate
6/1011
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the...
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2022
A Farewell to Ozark
6.5/17
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
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2005
Mary Pickford
0/0
It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world's most celebrated actress. Known as America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford was famous for pla...
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2013
Morning
4.7/6
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2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
6.6/8
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1993
Blind Spot
6/3
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1999
Love Letters
5.3/6
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2015
Mr. Holmes
6.474/1863
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Mr. Holmes
2024
Suncoast
6.7/113
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2000
Running Mates
5.3/7
A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
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2016
Genius
6.5/684
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2008
Mon Clown
7/2
Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the 2007 film...
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2022
The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later
0/0
ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featurin...
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2016
Sully
7.194/7288
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Sully
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
6.024/3561
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2017
The Dinner
4.5/292
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The Dinner
2016
Nocturnal Animals
7.421/7886
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2017
Red Nose Day Actually
7.059/262
Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, act...
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1985
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
0/0
The violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
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2006
Annie Oakley
6.2/2
This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century...
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2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
6.6/19
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2006
The Armenian Genocide
6.2/6
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during a...
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1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
6.7/3
A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.
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The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
2018
Olympia
8/3
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treas...
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Olympia
2020
The Roads Not Taken
5.5/81
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The Roads Not Taken
2020
Falling
6.5/195
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Falling
2020
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
0/0
What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied und...
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2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
10/2
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2001
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
5/1
The dreams that all came true for Scott Fitzgerald - once he was in his grave.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
4.6/5
A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the Nationa...
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We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2023
The Miracle Club
6.1/103
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The Miracle Club
2012
The Details
6/183
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chai...
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The Details
2007
The Hottest State
5.5/40
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
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