Laura Linney

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Linney in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, 2005

Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, active in movies, television, and theater.

Contents

1 Biography

1.1 Early life
1.2 Career

1.2.1 Film
1.2.2 Television
1.2.3 Theater

1.3 Private life

2 Selected filmography
3 External links

3.1 Interviews
3.2 Web sites

Biography

Early life

Linney was born in New York City. Her father, Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and her mother, Ann Leggett Perse, is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; she has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney was educated at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She also trained at the Juilliard School and at the Moscow Art Theatre.

Career

Film

Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, before being cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. In 2000, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me. In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, including Mystic River, Love Actually and The Life of David Gale. Her 2004 performance in Kinsey, as the title character's wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2005, Linney starred in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (a horror movie and courtroom drama), and the very well-reviewed comedy, The Squid and the Whale, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy".

Linney's upcoming films will include the political satire Man of the Year, the spy thriller Breach, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,[link] and the Savages, where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play siblings.[link]

Television

Her important television roles include "Mary Ann Singleton" in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" for Wild Iris. In 2004, she won her second Emmy Award as "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series", for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane in the television series Frasier.

Theater

Her extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler (for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award), Holiday (based on the movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and The Crucible. She was nominated for a Tony Award in 2002 as Best Actress (Play) for 'The Crucible', and again in 2005 for Sight Unseen.

Private life

Linney was married to David, whom she met at Juilliard, from 1995 to 2000.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1995	Congo	Dr. Karen Ross
1996	Primal Fear	Janet Venable
1997	Absolute Power	Kate Whitney
1998	The Truman Show	Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill
2000	The House of Mirth	Bertha Dorset
2000	You Can Count on Me	Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
2002	The Mothman Prophecies	Connie Mills
2003	Love Actually	Sarah
2003	Mystic River	Annabeth Markum
2003	The Life of David Gale	Constance Harraway
2004	Kinsey	Clara McMillen
2004	P.S.	Louise Harrington
2005	The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Erin Bruner
2005	The Squid and the Whale	Joan Berkman
2006	Jindabyne	Claire

External links

Interviews

[MovieHole interview] (September 8, 2005)
[Cinema Confidential interview] (September 8, 2005)
[Newsweek interview] (September 2, 2005)
[BlackFilm interview] (August, 2005)
[Sight Unseen interview, conducted by Romulus Linney] (2004)
[Cinema Confidential interview] (October 18, 2004)
[MovieHole interview] (October 7, 2003)
[Combustible Celluloid interview] (February 17, 2003)
[Hollywood.com interview] (January 3, 2001)

Web sites

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