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).
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Wildcat as Regina O'Connor
- 2024 · Suncoast as Kristine
- 2023 · The Miracle Club as Chrissie Ahearn
- 2023 · Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields as Self
- 2022 · The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later as Self
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · A Farewell to Ozark as Self
- 2022 · Be My Guest with Ina Garten as Self
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Hannah Pitt
- 2020 · Falling as Sarah (45 Yrs)
- 2020 · The Vote as
- 2020 · Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy as Self
- 2020 · Coronavirus, Explained as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · The Roads Not Taken as Rita
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · Tales of the City as Mary Ann Singleton
- 2018 · Olympia as Herself
- 2017 · Ozark as Wendy Byrde
- 2017 · The Dinner as Claire Lohman
- 2017 · Red Nose Day Actually as Sarah (US version)
- 2017 · The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Self
- 2017 · Masterpiece as Self - Narrator
- 2016 · Nocturnal Animals as Anne Sutton
- 2016 · Sully as Lorraine Sullenberger
- 2016 · Genius as Louise Saunders
- 2016 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows as Chief Vincent
- 2015 · Mr. Holmes as Mrs. Munro
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · The Men In Blazers Show as Self
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Laura Linney (voice)
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · The Fifth Estate as Sarah Shaw
- 2013 · Morning as Doctor Goodman
- 2013 · Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Hyde Park on Hudson as Daisy
- 2012 · The Details as Lila
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · Arthur Christmas as North Pole Computer (voice)
- 2010 · The Big C as Cathy Jamison
- 2010 · Sympathy for Delicious as Nina Hogue
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · The City of Your Final Destination as Caroline Gund
- 2009 · We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial as Self
- 2008 · The Other Man as Lisa
- 2008 · John Adams as Abigail Adams
- 2008 · Mon Clown as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Savages as Wendy Savage
- 2007 · The Nanny Diaries as Mrs. X
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Breach as Kate Burroughs
- 2006 · Man of the Year as Eleanor Green
- 2006 · The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Driving Lessons as Laura Marshall
- 2006 · The Hottest State as Jesse
- 2006 · Jindabyne as Claire
- 2006 · Annie Oakley as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · The Armenian Genocide as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
- 2005 · The Squid and the Whale as Joan Berkman
- 2005 · The Exorcism of Emily Rose as Erin Bruner
- 2005 · Mary Pickford as Narrator
- 2005 · American Dad! as Doctor Gupta (voice)
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · P.S. as Louise Harrington
- 2004 · Kinsey as Clara McMillen
- 2003 · Mystic River as Annabeth Markum
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Love Actually as Sarah
- 2003 · The Life of David Gale as Constance Hallaway
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2002 · RI:SE as
- 2002 · The Mothman Prophecies as Connie Mills
- 2002 · The Laramie Project as Sherry Johnson
- 2002 · Woodrow Wilson as voice
- 2001 · Maze as Callie
- 2001 · F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams as Zelda Fitzgerald
- 2001 · Further Tales of the City as Mary Ann Singleton
- 2001 · Wild Iris as Iris Bravard
- 2000 · You Can Count on Me as Samantha Prescott
- 2000 · The House of Mirth as Bertha Dorset
- 2000 · Running Mates as Lauren Hartman
- 1999 · Love Letters as Melissa Gardner Cobb
- 1999 · Lush as Rachel Van Dyke
- 1998 · More Tales of the City as Mary Ann Singleton
- 1998 · The Truman Show as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
- 1998 · The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Hannah Gill
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Absolute Power as Kate Whitney
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Marlene (voice)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Primal Fear as Janet Venable
- 1995 · Congo as Dr. Karen Ross
- 1994 · A Simple Twist of Fate as Nancy Lambert Newland
- 1993 · Tales of the City as Mary Ann Singleton
- 1993 · Frasier as Charlotte Connor
- 1993 · Frasier as Mindy (voice)
- 1993 · Searching for Bobby Fischer as School Teacher
- 1993 · Dave as Randi
- 1993 · Blind Spot as Phoebe
- 1993 · Class of '61 as Lily Magraw
- 1992 · Lorenzo's Oil as Young Teacher
- 1990 · Law & Order as Martha Bowen
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1985 · Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud as
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self