
Laura Linney
Acting
🎂 1964-02-05
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).
Cast credits(114)

Martha Bowen
1990

Doctor Gupta (voice)
2005

Self
1996

Self
2014

Marlene (voice)
1997

Self
2007

Charlotte Connor
1993

Mindy (voice)
1993

Self
2014

Self
2019

Self - Guest
2009

Laura Linney (voice)
2014

Self - Presenter
1956

Narrator (voice)
1988

Wendy Byrde
2017

Self - Narrator
2017

Self
2015

Self
2005

Self
2014

Self
1997
2002

Self
2003

Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
1998

1988

Self - Guest
1988

Self
2003

Self
2012

Self
1953

Annabeth Markum
2003

Janet Venable
1996

Chief Vincent
2016

Self
2014

Lorrie Sullenberger
2016

Sarah
2003

Self - Guest
2006

Cathy Jamison
2010

Abigail Adams
2008

Erin Bruner
2005

Anne Sutton
2016

Self
2023

Dr. Karen Ross
1995
Self
2003
Self
2004

Mrs. Munro
2015

North Pole Computer (voice)
2011

Constance Hallaway
2003

Mrs. X
2007

Connie Mills
2002

School Teacher
1993

Randi
1993

Kristine
2024

Sarah Shaw
2013

Young Teacher
1992

Mary Ann Singleton
2019

Kate Whitney
1997

Sherry Johnson
2002

Mary Ann Singleton
1993

Chrissie Ahearn
2023

Rita
2020

Nancy Lambert Newland
1994

Clara McMillen
2004

Louise Saunders
2016

Lisa
2008

Joan Berkman
2005

Kate Burroughs
2007

Sarah (US version)
2017

Nina Hogue
2010

Mary Ann Singleton
1998

Lily Magraw
1993

Claire Lohman
2017

Self
2022

Lila
2012

Sammy
2000

Phoebe
1993

Laura Marshall
2006

Mary Ann Singleton
2001

Self
2022

Louise Harrington
2004

Eleanor Green
2006

Melissa Gardner Cobb
1999

Sarah (45 Yrs)
2020

Iris Bravard
2001

Wendy Savage
2007

Self
2022

Self - Narrator
2020

Daisy
2012

Self - Letter Reader
2013

Regina O'Connor
2024

Callie
2001

Caroline Gund
2009

Bertha Dorset
2000

Self
2005

2020

Hannah Pitt
2020

Self
2009

Claire
2006

Jesse
2007

Self
2022

Self
2017
Kristen

Hannah Gill
1998

voice
2002

Mitzi Mills
2018

Lauren Hartman
2000

Doctor Goodman
2013

Rachel Van Dyke
1999

Narrator
2005

Self
2020

Maria Jacobsen (voice)
2006

Herself
2018

Narrator (voice)
2006

1985

Zelda Fitzgerald
2001
Narrator
2020