Lin Shaye
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
207 acting credits
Acting · 207
Private Practice
2007
ER
1994
Frasier
1993
Falcon Crest
1981
Crossing Jordan
2001
The Twilight Zone
1985
My Name Is Earl
2005
Highway to Heaven
1984
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Becker
1998
Who's the Boss?
1984
Arli$$
1996
Eight Is Enough
1977
Life Goes On
1989
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
Made in Hollywood
2005
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
Insidious
2011
Common Side Effects
2025
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
A Cinderella Story
2004
My So-Called Life
1994
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Perversions of Science
1997
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
EastSiders
2012
The Running Man
1987
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
There's Something About Mary
1998
Frank and Penelope
2022
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
Barely Legal
2003
Snakes on a Plane
2006
Critters
1986
Ouija
2014
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
Cellular
2004
My Sister's Keeper
2009
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
The Three Stooges
2012
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
The Grudge
2019
The Signal
2014
Last Man Standing
1996
Behind the Monsters
2021
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
The Hidden
1987
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003
Boat Trip
2002
Dead Talk Live
2020
Kingpin
1996
2001 Maniacs
2005
Critters 2
1988
Dead End
2003
Critters 3
1991
Stuck on You
2003
The Long Riders
1980
Brewster's Millions
1985
Detroit Rock City
1999
Corrina, Corrina
1994
Say It Isn't So
2001
Pump Up the Volume
1990
Mountain Top
2017
Confessions of an Action Star
2005
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Noobz
2013
Asylum
2008
The Midnight Man
2016
Abattoir
2016
The Final Wish
2019
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Chillerama
2011
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Tales of Halloween
2015
Big Ass Spider!
2013
Grace
2014
The Temp
1993
Goin' South
1978
The Call
2020
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
Homo Erectus
2007
Drop Dead Sexy
2005
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
Slam Dance
1987
Contagion
2002
The Black Room
2017
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
Hate Crime
2005
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982
Who's Your Daddy?
2004
Project: ALF
1996
Book of Love
1990
Living Out Loud
1998
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021
My Demon Lover
1987
Roadside Prophets
1992
American Cowslip
2009
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Dreamkatcher
2020
Alone in the Dark
1982
Director's Cut
2016
Crazy Kind of Love
2013
Rosewood Lane
2011
Killer Pad
2008
Stuntmen
2009
Pledge This!
2007
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
Grow House
2017
The Hillside Strangler
2004
All About the Money
2017
Born Killers
2005
Darkness Falls
2020
The Penthouse
2010
ManFast
2003
Living with Chucky
2022
Jewtopia
2012
Trial by Fire
1995
Hoboken Hollow
2006
Three of Hearts
1993
Surf School
2006
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
Trading Favors
1997
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
FDR: American Badass!
2012
Nature of the Beast
1995
Take Me Home
2011
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
Room for Rent
2019
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
Attention Shoppers
2000
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
Mascotland
—
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010
Driftwood
2006
Matchmaker Santa
2012
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
Jack Goes Home
2016
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
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Hester Street
1975
Chronic Town
2008
Scared to Death
2026
Unbeatable Harold
2006
Life's an Itch
2012
Lost Time
2014
Dark Moon Rising
2009
Texas Heart
2016
Doggie Heaven
2008
Mistress
1987
Breakfast with Einstein
1998
Without Charlie
2001
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
Sedona
2011
Devoted
—
Waffle Hut
2012
The Horror Crowd
2020
All American Christmas Carol
2013
House of Abraham
2025
Summer Fantasy
1984
Lucky Stiff
1988
A Cry for Love
1980
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
Why Me?
1984
The Voices
2020
Chasing Robert
2007
Pines
2022
The Almost Guys
2004
Ambition
2019
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Killer by Nature
2010
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
Next Stop Murder
2010
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
Stillwatch
1987
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018
3 Days of Normal
2012
Gothic Harvest
2019
Dead of Nowhere 3D
—
Down the P.C.H.
2006
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
Remote
2022
A Letter from My Father
2001
Goldberg - P.I.
2011
Carrier
—
The Election
2007
Get Gone
2019
Before Memory
—
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010
The Bench
—
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018
The Old World
—
A Secret Space
1977
Jackson's Hole
—
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022