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).
114 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 114
Law & Order
1990
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Frasier
1993
King of the Hill
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
BoJack Horseman
2014
American Experience
1988
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Ozark
2017
Tony Awards
1956
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Truman Show
1998
The Oscars
1953
Finding Your Roots
2012
Masterpiece
2017
The Big C
2010
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
John Adams
2008
Primal Fear
1996
Love Actually
2003
The American Revolution
2025
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016
Tales of the City
2019
Sully
2016
The Men in Blazers Show
2014
RI:SE
2002
Mystic River
2003
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023
American Classic
2026
Tales of the City
1993
Nocturnal Animals
2016
Arthur Christmas
2011
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
Congo
1995
The Life of David Gale
2003
Absolute Power
1997
More Tales of the City
1998
Dave
1993
The Nanny Diaries
2007
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Further Tales of the City
2001
Suncoast
2024
Mr. Holmes
2015
Falling
2020
Coronavirus, Explained
2020
Genius
2016
Kinsey
2004
Lorenzo's Oil
1992
Breach
2007
The Dinner
2017
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
The Miracle Club
2023
The Squid and the Whale
2005
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
The Fifth Estate
2013
P.S.
2004
Man of the Year
2006
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994
The Other Man
2008
Red Nose Day Actually
2017
The Vote
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
The Laramie Project
2002
The Savages
2007
You Can Count on Me
2000
Wildcat
2023
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020
Driving Lessons
2006
The Hottest State
2007
The Details
2012
The City of Your Final Destination
2009
The House of Mirth
2000
Maze
2001
Jindabyne
2006
The Roads Not Taken
2020
Bonnie
2022
Sympathy for Delicious
2010
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
Class of '61
1993
Blind Spot
1993
Running Mates
2000
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
The Armenian Genocide
2006
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
Sink Sank Sunk
2018
Morning
2013
Woodrow Wilson
2002
Love Letters
1999
Wild Iris
2001
Olympia
2018
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
Lush
1999
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1985
Onward and Sideways
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Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
Annie Oakley
2006
Mary Pickford
2005
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2001
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
2020
