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