Laura Linney
Acting
Born 1964-02-05
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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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).
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Filmography
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Law & Order
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
American Dad!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
King of the Hill
Frasier
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
BoJack Horseman
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Tony Awards
Ozark
American Experience
The Truman Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Masterpiece
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Euphoria: A Look Back
Black Rabbit
The Oscars
Love Actually
American Playhouse
Primal Fear
Mystic River
RI:SE
The Big C
The Megan Mullally Show
Finding Your Roots
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Sully
John Adams
Mr. Holmes
Arthur Christmas
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Nocturnal Animals
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
The American Revolution
Absolute Power
Tales of the City
Congo
The Mothman Prophecies
The Life of David Gale
The Men in Blazers Show
American Classic
The Nanny Diaries
Breach
The Fifth Estate
Tales of the City
The Squid and the Whale
Genius
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Savages
Dave
The Miracle Club
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