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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 5, 1964
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Laura Linney
4.7 Popularity
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).
Known For
5.2
Sarah Logan Fisher (voice) / Sarah Morris Mifflin (voice) / Eliza Wilkinson (voice) / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
The American Revolution
2025
5.2
voice
The American Revolution
2025
5.9
Regina O'Connor
Wildcat
2024
6.7
Kristine
Suncoast
2024
6.3
Chrissie Ahearn
The Miracle Club
2023
7.4
Self
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023
4.0
Self
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
5.3
Self
Bonnie
2022
6.5
Self
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
7.0
Self
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
Credits
The American Revolution
as Sarah Logan Fisher (voice) / Sarah Morris Mifflin (voice) / Eliza Wilkinson (voice) / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
2025
5.2
The American Revolution
as voice
2025
5.2
Wildcat
as Regina O'Connor
2024
5.9
Suncoast
as Kristine
2024
6.7
The Miracle Club
as Chrissie Ahearn
2023
6.3
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
as Self
2023
7.4
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
2022
4.0
Bonnie
as Self
2022
5.3
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
2022
6.5
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
as Self
2022
7.0
🎬
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
as Narrator
2020
0.0
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt
2020
10.0
Falling
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
2020
6.5
The Vote
2020
8.0
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
as Self
2020
0.0
Coronavirus, Explained
as Self - Narrator
2020
6.9
The Roads Not Taken
as Rita
2020
5.5
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Tales of the City
as Mary Ann Singleton
2019
6.8
Olympia
as Herself
2018
8.0
Sink Sank Sunk
as Mitzi Mills
2018
1.0
Ozark
as Wendy Byrde
2017
8.2
The Dinner
as Claire Lohman
2017
4.5
Red Nose Day Actually
as Sarah (US version)
2017
7.0
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self
2017
6.3
Masterpiece
as Self - Narrator
2017
9.0
Nocturnal Animals
as Anne Sutton
2016
7.4
Sully
as Lorrie Sullenberger
2016
7.2
Genius
as Louise Saunders
2016
6.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Chief Vincent
2016
6.1
Mr. Holmes
as Mrs. Munro
2015
6.5
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
5.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Men in Blazers Show
as Self
2014
6.5
BoJack Horseman
as Laura Linney (voice)
2014
8.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The Fifth Estate
as Sarah Shaw
2013
6.0
Morning
as Doctor Goodman
2013
4.3
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Letter Reader
2013
6.6
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Daisy
2012
5.2
The Details
as Lila
2012
6.0
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
Arthur Christmas
as North Pole Computer (voice)
2011
6.8
The Big C
as Cathy Jamison
2010
7.1
Sympathy for Delicious
as Nina Hogue
2010
5.7
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The City of Your Final Destination
as Caroline Gund
2009
5.7
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
2009
4.6
The Other Man
as Lisa
2008
5.4
John Adams
as Abigail Adams
2008
7.7
The Savages
as Wendy Savage
2007
6.9
The Nanny Diaries
as Mrs. X
2007
6.4
The Hottest State
as Jesse
2007
5.4
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Breach
as Kate Burroughs
2007
6.6
Man of the Year
as Eleanor Green
2006
5.9
The Megan Mullally Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.2
Driving Lessons
as Laura Marshall
2006
6.1
Jindabyne
as Claire
2006
5.5
Annie Oakley
as Narrator (voice)
2006
6.2
The Armenian Genocide
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
2006
6.2
The Squid and the Whale
as Joan Berkman
2005
6.9
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
as Erin Bruner
2005
6.6
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
as Self
2005
0.0
Mary Pickford
as Narrator
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Doctor Gupta (voice)
2005
7.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
P.S.
as Louise Harrington
2004
5.6
Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
2004
6.6
🎬
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
2004
0.0
🎬
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
2003
0.0
Mystic River
as Annabeth Markum
2003
7.7
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Love Actually
as Sarah
2003
7.1
The Life of David Gale
as Constance Hallaway
2003
7.4
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
🎬
RI:SE
2002
2.0
The Mothman Prophecies
as Connie Mills
2002
6.2
The Laramie Project
as Sherry Johnson
2002
6.2
Woodrow Wilson
as voice
2002
8.0
Maze
as Callie
2001
5.6
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
as Zelda Fitzgerald
2001
5.0
Further Tales of the City
as Mary Ann Singleton
2001
6.5
Wild Iris
as Iris Bravard
2001
7.0
You Can Count on Me
as Sammy
2000
6.8
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
2000
6.1
Running Mates
as Lauren Hartman
2000
4.8
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
1999
4.7
Lush
as Rachel Van Dyke
1999
3.0
More Tales of the City
as Mary Ann Singleton
1998
7.2
The Truman Show
as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
1998
8.2
🎬
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Hannah Gill
1998
6.7
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Absolute Power
as Kate Whitney
1997
6.7
King of the Hill
as Marlene (voice)
1997
7.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Primal Fear
as Janet Venable
1996
7.7
Congo
as Dr. Karen Ross
1995
5.6
A Simple Twist of Fate
as Nancy Lambert Newland
1994
6.1
Tales of the City
as Mary Ann Singleton
1993
7.7
Frasier
as Charlotte Connor
1993
7.7
Frasier
as Mindy (voice)
1993
7.7
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as School Teacher
1993
7.1
Dave
as Randi
1993
6.6
Blind Spot
as Phoebe
1993
6.0
Class of '61
as Lily Magraw
1993
4.1
Lorenzo's Oil
as Young Teacher
1992
7.1
Law & Order
as Martha Bowen
1990
7.4
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1985
1.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
American Classic
as Kristen
N/A
0.0
🎬
But When We Dance
as Emma Dretzin
N/A
0.0