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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 Ada…
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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).
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BODY OF WORK
Laura Linney's Filmography
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Rode to Ruin
Onwards and Sideways
as Emma Dretzin
Euphoria: A Look Back
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wildcat
as Regina O'Connor
Suncoast
as Kristine
The Miracle Club
as Chrissie Ahearn
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
Bonnie
as Self
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
No Poster
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
as Narrator
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Hannah Pitt
Falling
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
as Self
The Roads Not Taken
as Rita
Olympia
as Self
The Dinner
as Claire Lohman
Red Nose Day Actually
as Sarah (US version)
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self
Nocturnal Animals
as Anne Sutton
Sully
as Lorrie Sullenberger
Genius
as Louise Saunders
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
as Chief Vincent
Mr. Holmes
as Mrs. Munro
The Fifth Estate
as Sarah Shaw
Morning
as Doctor Goodman
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Letter Reader
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Daisy
The Details
as Lila
Arthur Christmas
as North Pole Computer (voice)
Sympathy for Delicious
as Nina Hogue
The City of Your Final Destination
as Caroline Gund
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
The Other Man
as Lisa
The Savages
as Wendy Savage
The Nanny Diaries
as Mrs. X
The Hottest State
as Jesse
Breach
as Kate Burroughs
Man of the Year
as Eleanor Green
Driving Lessons
as Laura Marshall
Jindabyne
as Claire
Annie Oakley
as Narrator (voice)
The Armenian Genocide
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
The Squid and the Whale
as Joan Berkman
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
as Erin Bruner
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
as Self
Mary Pickford
as Narrator
P.S.
as Louise Harrington
Kinsey
as Clara McMillen
No Poster
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
as Self
No Poster
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
as Self
Mystic River
as Annabeth Markum
Love Actually
as Sarah
The Life of David Gale
as Constance Hallaway
The Mothman Prophecies
as Connie Mills
The Laramie Project
as Sherry Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
as Self - voice
Maze
as Callie
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Wild Iris
as Iris Bravard
The House of Mirth
as Bertha Dorset
Running Mates
as Lauren Hartman
You Can Count on Me
as Sammy
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
Lush
as Rachel Van Dyke
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Hannah Gill
The Truman Show
as Meryl
Absolute Power
as Kate Whitney
Primal Fear
as Janet Venable
Congo
as Dr. Karen Ross
A Simple Twist of Fate
as Nancy Lambert Newland
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as School Teacher
Dave
as Randi
Blind Spot
as Phoebe
Class of '61
as Lily Magraw
Lorenzo's Oil
as Young Teacher
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
No Poster
The Joy of Sex
as Ruth Comfort