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Laura Linney

Laura Linney has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, for her performances in Kenneth Lonergan's YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, alongside Mark Ruffalo and Matthew Broderick; in Bill Condon's KINSEY, opposite Liam Neeson; and in Tamara Jenkins' THE SAVAGES, with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The performance in YOU CAN COUNT ON ME also earned her Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe Award, and Independent Spirit Award nominations; and Best Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. The portrayal in KINSEY also garnered her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as well as the National Board of Review's award for Best Supporting Actress. Her performance in THE SAVAGES additionally brought her a London Critics' Circle Film Award nomination for Best Actress, among other honors.

Ms. Linney has won a Golden Globe Award and been an Emmy Award nominee for her starring role as Cathy Jamison on the television series THE BIG C, on which she is an executive producer and which recently aired its third season. She starred opposite Paul Giamatti as First Lady Abigail Adams in the critically acclaimed miniseries JOHN ADAMS, directed by Tom Hooper, for which she won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Emmy Awards. She has also won Emmy Awards for her guest role on the final season of FRASIER, opposite Kelsey Grammer, and for her performance in the telefilm WILD IRIS, in which she starred with Gena Rowlands and Emile Hirsch for director Daniel Petrie.

Among Ms. Linney's other feature credits are Noah Baumbach's THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, opposite Jeff Daniels, for which she received Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominations; Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER, for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination, and ABSOLUTE POWER; Peter Weir's THE TRUMAN SHOW, with Jim Carrey; Gregory Hoblit's PRIMAL FEAR and Mark Pellington's THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, both opposite Richard Gere; Richard Curtis' LOVE ACTUALLY; George Miller's LORENZO'S OIL; Ivan Reitman's DAVE; Steven Zaillian's SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER; Gillies MacKinnon's A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE; Frank Marshall's CONGO; Terence Davies' THE HOUSE OF MIRTH; Michael Uno's Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm BLIND SPOT, with Joanne Woodward; and Stanley Donen's telefilm LOVE LETTERS, opposite Steven Weber.

She memorably starred as Mary Ann Singleton in three TALES OF THE CITY miniseries, based on the novels by Armistead Maupin, and directed respectively by Alastair Reid and Pierre Gang.

The Juilliard graduate was recently a Drama Desk and Tony Award nominee for TIME STANDS STILL, written by Donald Marguiles and directed by Daniel Sullivan. She previously starred on Broadway in, among other shows, the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Christopher Hampton's LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES with Ben Daniels, directed by Rufus Norris; Richard Eyre's staging of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE, opposite Liam Neeson, for which she was a Tony Award nominee; Henrik Ibsen's HEDDA GABLER, staged by Sarah Anderson, for which she won a 1994 Calloway Award; and Donald Margulies' SIGHT UNSEEN, staged by Daniel Sullivan, for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. She had starred off-Broadway in the latter play over a decade earlier, earning her first Drama Desk Award nomination as well as Drama League and Outer Critic Circle Award nominations, and a Theatre World award.


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Laura Linney Facts

OccupationActress
BirthdayFebruary 5, 1964 (60)
SignAquarius
BirthplaceNew York, New York, USA
Height5' 7" (1m70)  How tall is Laura Linney compared to you?
Awards2011 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical (for The Big C)
2009 Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie (for John Adams)
2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (for John Adams)
2008 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie (for John Adams)
2004 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (for Frasier)
2002 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie (for Wild Iris)

Selected Filmography

Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Truman Show
Sully
Mr. Holmes
Nocturnal Animals
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows
P.S.
Genius
Goodnight Seattle
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