Laura Linney

Known for ActingBorn 1964-02-05 (age 62)Manhattan, 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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

Masterpiece

BoJack Horseman

Lanterns

Ozark

The Vote

Olympia

The Truman Show

Woodrow Wilson

Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Mystic River

John Adams

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Frasier

Tales of the City

Primal Fear

Nocturnal Animals

The Life of David Gale

The Big C

Wild Iris

King of the Hill

Sully

The Graham Norton Show

More Tales of the City

Black Rabbit

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

Coronavirus, Explained

Law & Order

Red Nose Day Actually

Love Actually

American Dad!

The Armenian Genocide

American Classic

Mary Pickford

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

Lorenzo's Oil

Searching for Bobby Fischer

The Squid and the Whale

Tales of the City

The Savages

Suncoast

A Farewell to Ozark

Arthur Christmas

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

You Can Count on Me

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy