Laura Linney

Acting · Born 1964-02-05 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Mystic River as Annabeth Markum
• Love Actually as Sarah
• Primal Fear as Janet Venable
• Lorenzo's Oil as Young Teacher
• The Squid and the Whale as Joan Berkman
• The Life of David Gale as Constance Hallaway
• Searching for Bobby Fischer as School Teacher
• The Truman Show as Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
• Sully as Lorrie Sullenberger
• Nocturnal Animals as Anne Sutton

TV

• Frasier as Charlotte Connor
• John Adams as Abigail Adams
• Ozark as Wendy Byrde
• Frasier as Mindy (voice)
• BoJack Horseman as Laura Linney (voice)
• Law & Order as Martha Bowen
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• American Dad! as Doctor Gupta (voice)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The Daily Show as Self