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Biography #2 (for Love Actually)
Few actresses today have made an indelible impression on Hollywood as quickly as Laura Linney has. In 2001, Laura earned an Academy Award nomination for her starring role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me, opposite Matthew Broderick. In addition, this role garnered her nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She was awarded Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.Since that film she has starred in numerous projects, both onscreen and onstage. Laura was recently seen on the big screen in The Mothman Prophicies, starring opposite Richard Gere, and in The Life of David Gale, directed by Alan Parker and starring opposite Kevin Spacey. She also starred on Broadway opposite Liam Neeson in The Crucible, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Linney also turned in a memorable performance in a featured role in the HBO telefilm version of Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project.
The critically acclaimed film, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, gave Laura a chance to shine brightly as she co-starred opposite Jim Carrey. Her motion picture debut was also her first starring film role the jungle action picture, Congo. Linney starred opposite Clint Eastwood in Absolute Power, directed by Eastwood and based on the best-selling novel by David Baldacci. Previously, she teamed up with Richard Gere in the hit suspense thriller Primal Fear, directed by Gregory Hoblit; Linney garnered critical acclaim for her role as a tough attorney prosecuting the case of a grisly murder of a priest.
Linney's other screen credits include supporting roles in Edith Wharton's turn-of-the-century novel The House of Mirth, Lorenzo's Oil, Dave, Searching for Bobby Fischer and A Simple Twist of Fate. Her television appearances include the leading role of Mary Ann Singleton in PBS's award-winning Tales of the City, based on the novels by Armistead Maupin, and she also reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in More Tales of the City for Showtime. She also starred opposite Joanne Woodward in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Blind Spot and opposite Steven Weber in Love Letters, directed by Stanley Donen. She was last seen on the small screen in Showtime's Wild Iris opposite Gena Rowlands, a performance that brought her an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.
Her upcoming projects include Clint Eastwood's ensemble drama Mystic River; and Bill Condon's Kinsey, starring again opposite Liam Neeson.
Linney, a graduate of The Juilliard School and an accomplished theatre actress, was also seen starring on Broadway in Gerald Gutierrez's Honour opposite Jane Alexander. She won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in Sight Unseen. Her theatre credits also include roles in the Broadway productions of Six Degrees of Separation, The Seagull and Hedda Gabler, the latter earning her a 1994 Calloway Award. She recently returned to Broadway, starring opposite Tony Goldwyn in Phillip Barry's Holiday, a comedy of manners, and she also starred in John Guare's Landscape of the Body at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
Bio courtesy Universal Pictures for "Love Actually" (07-Nov-2003)
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