Laura Linney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-02-05 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Laura 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 si...

Acting

1997

Absolute Power

as Kate Whitney

2003

Mystic River

as Annabeth Markum

2003

1996

Primal Fear

as Janet Venable

1995

Congo

as Dr. Karen Ross

2024

Wildcat

as Regina O'Connor

1992

Lorenzo's Oil

as Young Teacher

2002

The Mothman Prophecies

as Connie Mills

2005

2007

Breach

as Kate Burroughs

2006

Jindabyne

as Claire

2004

Kinsey

as Clara McMillen

2022

Bonnie

as Self

2006

Driving Lessons

as Laura Marshall

1993

Dave

as Randi

2003

The Life of David Gale

as Constance Hallaway

2007

The Savages

as Wendy Savage

2005

2004

P.S.

as Louise Harrington

2000

The House of Mirth

as Bertha Dorset

2007

2006

Man of the Year

as Eleanor Green

1993

2000

You Can Count on Me

as Samantha Prescott

1998

The Truman Show

as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill

1994

A Simple Twist of Fate

as Nancy Lambert Newland

2008

2001

Wild Iris

as Iris Bravard

2002

The Laramie Project

as Sherry Johnson

2011

Arthur Christmas

as North Pole Computer (voice)

2010

1993

Class of '61

as Lily Magraw

1999

Lush

as Rachel Van Dyke

2002

2001

Maze

as Callie

2013

The Fifth Estate

as Sarah Shaw

2005

Mary Pickford

as Narrator

2013

Morning

as Doctor Goodman

1993

Blind Spot

as Phoebe

1999

Love Letters

as Melissa Gardner Cobb

2015

Mr. Holmes

as Mrs. Munro

2024

Suncoast

as Kristine

2000

Running Mates

as Lauren Hartman

2016

Genius

as Louise Saunders

2008

Mon Clown

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Sully

as Lorrie Sullenberger

2017

The Dinner

as Claire Lohman

2016

Nocturnal Animals

as Anne Sutton

2017

Red Nose Day Actually

as Sarah (US version)

2006

Annie Oakley

as Narrator (voice)

2006

The Armenian Genocide

as Maria Jacobsen (voice)

1998

2018

Olympia

as Herself

2020

Falling

as Sarah (45 Yrs)

2001

2023

The Miracle Club

as Chrissie Ahearn

2012

2007

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