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