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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 12, 1943
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
- Linda "Lin" Shaye
- لین شی
Lin Shaye
1.7 Popularity
Biography
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 (2020), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2023). 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.
Known For
0.0
Elise Rainier
Insidious: The Bleeding World
2026
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
6.5
Self
1000 Women in Horror
2025
10.0
House of Abraham
2025
8.4
Sonia (voice)
Common Side Effects
2025
7.9
Ellen
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
7.0
Max
Scared to Death
2024
6.5
Elise Rainier
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
6.4
Self
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
0.0
Kane
Remote
2022
Credits
Insidious: The Bleeding World
as Elise Rainier
2026
0.0
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025
6.5
House of Abraham
2025
10.0
Common Side Effects
as Sonia (voice)
2025
8.4
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Ellen
2024
7.9
Scared to Death
as Max
2024
7.0
Insidious: The Red Door
as Elise Rainier
2023
6.5
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
2022
6.4
Remote
as Kane
2022
0.0
We Are Gathered Here Today
as Jean Cole
2022
6.0
Living with Chucky
as Self
2022
6.6
Frank and Penelope
as Ophelia
2022
7.3
Pines
as Julie (voice)
2022
8.0
Behind the Monsters
as Self
2021
5.7
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
as Mrs. Bundy
2021
6.6
The Call
as Edith Cranston
2020
5.5
The Horror Crowd
as Self
2020
5.7
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
as Mrs. Wylder
2020
5.8
The Voices
as The Vagabond
2020
5.3
Dreamkatcher
as Ruth
2020
5.1
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
as Dottie Minter
2020
6.7
Dead Talk Live
as Self - Guest
2020
9.0
Darkness Falls
as Angela Anderson
2020
5.4
The Grudge
as Faith Matheson
2019
5.4
Gothic Harvest
as Griselda
2019
3.7
Ambition
as Lady Bum
2019
4.7
Get Gone
as Mama
2019
4.3
Room for Rent
as Joyce
2019
6.4
The Final Wish
as Kate Hammond
2019
5.0
Herbert West: Reanimator
as Meredith
2018
4.7
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
as Self
2018
0.0
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
as Self
2018
0.0
Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self
2018
6.5
Los Angeles Overnight
as Cousins
2018
4.2
Insidious: The Last Key
as Elise Rainier
2018
6.3
All About the Money
as Mrs. Womack
2017
5.4
Buster's Mal Heart
as Pauline
2017
6.1
The Black Room
as Miss Black
2017
3.8
Grow House
as Mrs. Gilliam
2017
6.3
Mountain Top
as Muriel Miller
2017
6.8
Abattoir
as Allie
2016
4.5
Ouija: Origin of Evil
as Old Paulina Zander
2016
6.1
The Midnight Man
as Anna
2016
5.8
Director's Cut
as Captain Wheeler
2016
6.1
Texas Heart
as Mrs. Smith
2016
4.7
Jack Goes Home
as Teresa
2016
5.2
Tales of Halloween
as Lynn's Mother
2015
5.7
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
as Helen Keller
2015
5.1
Insidious: Chapter 3
as Elise Rainier
2015
6.3
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
as The Grand Lady
2015
5.5
Grace
as Helen
2014
4.9
Ouija
as Paulina Zander
2014
5.1
Lost Time
as Mysterious Woman
2014
3.3
The Signal
as Mirabelle
2014
6.0
All American Christmas Carol
as Barbara Belnap
2013
4.2
Big Ass Spider!
as Mrs. Jefferson
2013
5.6
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Elise Rainier
2013
6.7
Crazy Kind of Love
as Denise Mack
2013
5.4
Noobz
as Mrs. Theodore
2013
5.9
EastSiders
as Diane
2012
6.2
Life's an Itch
as Gloria
2012
2.2
Matchmaker Santa
as Debbie
2012
5.7
FDR: American Badass!
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2012
5.1
3 Days of Normal
as May
2012
4.3
Jewtopia
as Dr. Sutton
2012
4.6
The Three Stooges
as Nurse Crotchet
2012
5.8
Waffle Hut
as Jerrie Wolf
2012
0.0
Rosewood Lane
as Mrs. Hawthorne
2011
4.7
Chillerama
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
2011
5.7
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
as Dody
2011
5.8
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
5.8
Insidious
as Elise Rainier
2011
6.9
Take Me Home
as Jill
2011
6.5
Sedona
as Claire
2011
5.6
Goldberg - P.I.
as Violet
2011
0.0
Farewell Mr. Kringle
as Zelda
2010
6.2
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
6.3
Next Stop Murder
as Detective Reeson
2010
6.4
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
as Mrs. Rawlings
2010
1.0
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
as Granny Boone
2010
3.8
Small Town Saturday Night
as Phyllis Ryan
2010
5.2
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
2010
7.8
🎬
Pickin' and Grinnin'
as Bonnie Johnson
2010
2.0
The Penthouse
as Frances
2010
3.4
Killer by Nature
as Leona
2010
3.3
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
as The Lush
2010
0.0
Dark Moon Rising
as Sunny
2009
4.2
Stuntmen
as Bumble Jackson
2009
3.4
American Cowslip
as Lou Anne
2009
5.1
My Sister's Keeper
as Nurse Adele
2009
7.4
Doggie Heaven
as Woman
2008
5.5
🎬
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
as Self
2008
4.5
Chronic Town
as Nurse
2008
6.0
Asylum
as String's Mother
2008
4.1
Killer Pad
as Marge
2008
3.8
Private Practice
as Mrs. Taylor
2007
7.5
Chasing Robert
as Martha the Bookie
2007
2.0
The Election
as The Wife
2007
7.0
Homo Erectus
as Museum Guide
2007
3.9
Pledge This!
as Miss Prin
2007
2.7
Driftwood
as Nancy Forrester
2006
4.4
Surf School
as Larry's Mom
2006
2.7
Surf School
as Larry's mom
2006
2.7
🎬
Down the P.C.H.
as Wendy O'Hara
2006
2.3
Snakes on a Plane
as Grace
2006
5.5
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
as Clara
2006
4.8
Bachelor Party Vegas
as Cassandra
2006
4.8
Hoboken Hollow
as Mrs. Brodrick
2006
3.6
Unbeatable Harold
as Jeannie
2006
3.0
Made in Hollywood
as Self
2005
4.7
My Name Is Earl
as Paul's Mom
2005
7.7
2001 Maniacs
as Granny Boone
2005
5.4
Drop Dead Sexy
as Ma Muzzy
2005
4.8
Confessions of an Action Star
as Samantha Jones
2005
4.1
Hate Crime
as Kathleen Slansky
2005
5.6
Born Killers
as Willow
2005
5.2
The Hillside Strangler
as Jenny Buono
2004
5.0
Cellular
as Exotic Car Driver
2004
6.4
A Cinderella Story
as Mrs. Wells
2004
6.6
The Almost Guys
as Repo Boss
2004
6.7
Who's Your Daddy?
as Ms. Harding
2004
4.8
Dead End
as Laura Harrington
2003
6.4
Stuck on You
as Makeup Babe
2003
5.3
Barely Legal
as Tequlia
2003
6.0
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
as Margie
2003
4.2
ManFast
as Marge
2003
3.7
Boat Trip
as Sonya the Coach
2002
5.3
Wish You Were Dead
as Jinny Macintosh
2002
4.9
Contagion
as Laura Crowley
2002
4.0
🎬
A Letter from My Father
as Elise
2001
0.0
Crossing Jordan
as Leather Lauren
2001
7.2
Say It Isn't So
as Nurse Bautista
2001
4.7
🎬
Without Charlie
2001
1.0
Attention Shoppers
as Libby
2000
2.5
Me, Myself & Irene
as Mrs. Caleron
2000
6.6
Detroit Rock City
as Mrs. Bruce
1999
6.7
Becker
as Mrs. Cooper
1998
7.1
Living Out Loud
as Lisa's Nurse
1998
5.8
There's Something About Mary
as Magda
1998
6.6
Breakfast with Einstein
as Miss Desmond
1998
3.2
Perversions of Science
as Nurse
1997
5.6
Trading Favors
as Darla
1997
4.4
Last Man Standing
as The Madame
1996
6.4
Kingpin
as Landlady
1996
6.5
Project: ALF
as Waitress
1996
5.9
Nature of the Beast
as Carol Powell
1995
5.9
Trial by Fire
as Phyliis Cardell
1995
5.0
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
as Bonnie
1995
5.9
Dumb and Dumber
as Mrs. Neugeboren
1994
6.6
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Inmate
1994
6.2
New Nightmare
as Nurse with Pills
1994
6.5
ER
as Margaret
1994
7.8
My So-Called Life
as Parent #2
1994
7.6
Corrina, Corrina
as Repeat Nanny
1994
6.7
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as Rubber Rose Maid
1994
4.4
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
as Foreman #2
1994
5.7
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
as Make up Artist
1993
5.1
Amityville: A New Generation
as Nurse Turner
1993
4.2
Frasier
as Anne
1993
7.7
Three of Hearts
as Operator
1993
4.8
The Temp
as Rosemary
1993
4.7
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Witness
1993
6.0
Roadside Prophets
as Celeste
1992
5.5
Critters 3
as Sal (archive footage)
1991
5.3
Pump Up the Volume
as PTA Parent #3
1990
7.1
Book of Love
as Mrs. Flynn
1990
5.4
Life Goes On
as Parent #2
1989
6.5
Lucky Stiff
as Bratty Kid's Mom
1988
4.3
Critters 2
as Sal
1988
6.2
The Running Man
as Propaganda Officer
1987
6.5
The Hidden
as Carol Miller
1987
6.9
Mistress
as Woman Customer
1987
2.7
Slam Dance
as Librarian
1987
4.7
Extreme Prejudice
as Employment Office Clerk
1987
6.2
My Demon Lover
as Anemic Counter Girl
1987
5.2
Stillwatch
1987
6.5
Critters
as Sally
1986
6.5
The Twilight Zone
as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
1985
7.8
Brewster's Millions
as Journalist at Rally
1985
6.6
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Teacher
1984
7.3
Who's the Boss?
as Mrs. Padnick
1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
as Lila Barnes
1984
7.4
Summer Fantasy
as Woman on Beach
1984
4.8
Why Me?
1984
5.4
Alone in the Dark
as Receptionist at Haven
1982
5.8
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
as Nurse with Telegram
1982
4.7
Cagney & Lacey
as Secretary
1982
7.0
Falcon Crest
as Smoking Female Prisoner
1981
5.5
🎬
A Cry for Love
1980
0.0
The Long Riders
as Kate
1980
6.6
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
as 2nd Nurse
1979
6.0
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
as Freida
1979
7.0
Goin' South
as Parasol Lady
1978
5.8
A Secret Space
as Amy
1977
0.0
Sex and the Married Woman
as Sandra
1977
2.3
Eight Is Enough
as Band Member
1977
6.1
Hester Street
as Whore
1975
6.1
Before Memory
N/A
1.0
🎬
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
as Nurse
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Bench
N/A
0.0
🎬
Carrier
as Joan Pierson
N/A
0.0
🎬
Dead of Nowhere 3D
as Meemaw
N/A
0.0
The Old World
as The Aunt (voice)
N/A
0.0
🎬
Devoted
as Aunt Dottie
N/A
0.0