Laura Linney
Overview
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).
1998
The Truman Show
Average rating: 8.1
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Average rating: 6
2005
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Average rating: 6.6
2016
Nocturnal Animals
Average rating: 7.4
2003
Mystic River
Average rating: 7.7
2016
Sully
Average rating: 7.2
2003
The Life of David Gale
Average rating: 7.4
1996
Primal Fear
Average rating: 7.7
2003
Love Actually
Average rating: 7.1
1993
Dave
Average rating: 6.7
1992
Lorenzo's Oil
Average rating: 7.1
2007
The Nanny Diaries
Average rating: 6.4
2002
The Mothman Prophecies
Average rating: 6.2
2024
Suncoast
Average rating: 6.8
2023
The Miracle Club
Average rating: 6
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Average rating: 5.5
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Average rating: 5.4
1996
The Daily Show
Average rating: 6.3
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Average rating: 5.9
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Average rating: 6.3
1990
Law & Order
Average rating: 7.4
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Average rating: 6.7
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Average rating: 7.2
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Average rating: 5.4
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Average rating: 5.4
2005
American Dad!
Average rating: 7
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Average rating: 4.3
2014
The Men In Blazers Show
Average rating: 5
1993
Frasier
Average rating: 7.7
1993
Frasier
Average rating: 7.7Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Movie | Wildcat | Regina O'Connor |
| 2024 | Movie | Suncoast | Kristine |
| 2023 | Movie | The Miracle Club | Chrissie Ahearn |
| 2023 | Tv Show | Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | Bonnie | Self |
| 2022 | Tv Show | The Last Movie Stars | Self / Joanne Woodward (voice) |
| 2022 | Movie | A Farewell to Ozark | Self |
| 2022 | Tv Show | Be My Guest with Ina Garten | Self |
| 2020 | Movie | The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Hannah Pitt |
| 2020 | Movie | Falling | Sarah (45 Yrs) |
| 2020 | Tv Show | The Vote | - |
| 2020 | Movie | Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Self |
| 2020 | Tv Show | Coronavirus, Explained | Self - Narrator |
| 2020 | Movie | The Roads Not Taken | Rita |
| 2019 | Tv Show | The Kelly Clarkson Show | - |
| 2019 | Tv Show | Tales of the City | Mary Ann Singleton |
| 2018 | Movie | Olympia | Herself |
| 2017 | Tv Show | Ozark | Wendy Byrde |
| 2017 | Movie | The Dinner | Claire Lohman |
| 2017 | Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Sarah (US version) |
| 2017 | Movie | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self |
| 2017 | Tv Show | Masterpiece | Self - Narrator |
| 2016 | Movie | Nocturnal Animals | Anne Sutton |
| 2016 | Movie | Sully | Lorraine Sullenberger |
| 2016 | Movie | Genius | Louise Saunders |
| 2016 | Movie | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Chief Vincent |
| 2015 | Movie | Mr. Holmes | Mrs. Munro |
| 2015 | Tv Show | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | The Men In Blazers Show | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | BoJack Horseman | Laura Linney (voice) |
| 2014 | Tv Show | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2013 | Movie | The Fifth Estate | Sarah Shaw |
| 2013 | Movie | Morning | Doctor Goodman |
| 2013 | Movie | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Movie | Hyde Park on Hudson | Daisy |
| 2012 | Movie | The Details | Lila |
| 2012 | Tv Show | Finding Your Roots | Self |
| 2011 | Movie | Arthur Christmas | North Pole Computer (voice) |
| 2010 | Tv Show | The Big C | Cathy Jamison |
| 2010 | Movie | Sympathy for Delicious | Nina Hogue |
| 2009 | Tv Show | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Movie | The City of Your Final Destination | Caroline Gund |
| 2009 | Movie | We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self |
| 2008 | Movie | The Other Man | Lisa |
| 2008 | Tv Show | John Adams | Abigail Adams |
| 2008 | Movie | Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Movie | The Savages | Wendy Savage |
| 2007 | Movie | The Nanny Diaries | Mrs. X |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2007 | Movie | Breach | Kate Burroughs |
| 2006 | Movie | Man of the Year | Eleanor Green |
| 2006 | Tv Show | The Megan Mullally Show | Self - Guest |
| 2006 | Movie | Driving Lessons | Laura Marshall |
| 2006 | Movie | The Hottest State | Jesse |
| 2006 | Movie | Jindabyne | Claire |
| 2006 | Movie | Annie Oakley | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Movie | The Armenian Genocide | Maria Jacobsen (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
| 2005 | Movie | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Erin Bruner |
| 2005 | Movie | Mary Pickford | Narrator |
| 2005 | Tv Show | American Dad! | Doctor Gupta (voice) |
| 2005 | Tv Show | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2004 | Movie | P.S. | Louise Harrington |
| 2004 | Movie | Kinsey | Clara McMillen |
| 2003 | Movie | Mystic River | Annabeth Markum |
| 2003 | Tv Show | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Movie | Love Actually | Sarah |
| 2003 | Movie | The Life of David Gale | Constance Hallaway |
| 2003 | Tv Show | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | - |
| 2002 | Tv Show | RI:SE | - |
| 2002 | Movie | The Mothman Prophecies | Connie Mills |
| 2002 | Movie | The Laramie Project | Sherry Johnson |
| 2002 | Movie | Woodrow Wilson | voice |
| 2001 | Movie | Maze | Callie |
| 2001 | Movie | F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams | Zelda Fitzgerald |
| 2001 | Tv Show | Further Tales of the City | Mary Ann Singleton |
| 2001 | Movie | Wild Iris | Iris Bravard |
| 2000 | Movie | You Can Count on Me | Samantha Prescott |
| 2000 | Movie | The House of Mirth | Bertha Dorset |
| 2000 | Movie | Running Mates | Lauren Hartman |
| 1999 | Movie | Love Letters | Melissa Gardner Cobb |
| 1999 | Movie | Lush | Rachel Van Dyke |
| 1998 | Tv Show | More Tales of the City | Mary Ann Singleton |
| 1998 | Movie | The Truman Show | Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill |
| 1998 | Movie | The Truman Show: Tru-Talk | Hannah Gill |
| 1997 | Tv Show | The View | Self |
| 1997 | Movie | Absolute Power | Kate Whitney |
| 1997 | Tv Show | King of the Hill | Marlene (voice) |
| 1996 | Tv Show | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Movie | Primal Fear | Janet Venable |
| 1995 | Movie | Congo | Dr. Karen Ross |
| 1994 | Movie | A Simple Twist of Fate | Nancy Lambert Newland |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Tales of the City | Mary Ann Singleton |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Frasier | Charlotte Connor |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Frasier | Mindy (voice) |
| 1993 | Movie | Searching for Bobby Fischer | School Teacher |
| 1993 | Movie | Dave | Randi |
| 1993 | Movie | Blind Spot | Phoebe |
| 1993 | Movie | Class of '61 | Lily Magraw |
| 1992 | Movie | Lorenzo's Oil | Young Teacher |
| 1990 | Tv Show | Law & Order | Martha Bowen |
| 1988 | Tv Show | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Tv Show | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | - |
| 1988 | Tv Show | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1985 | Movie | Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud | - |
| 1956 | Tv Show | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1953 | Tv Show | The Oscars | Self |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Tv Show | Tales of the City | Production |
| 2017 | Tv Show | Ozark | Directing |
| 2017 | Tv Show | Ozark | Production |
| 2010 | Tv Show | The Big C | Production |
| - | Tv Show | Black Rabbit | Directing |