Laura Leggett Linney was born on February 5,1964 and is an American actress.
58 Facts About Laura Linney
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Laura Linney 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.
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Laura Linney made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me, Kinsey, and The Savages.
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Laura Linney's mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse, was a nurse at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and her father, Romulus Zachariah Linney IV, was a playwright and professor.
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Laura Linney would spend summers with her father in New Hampshire and fell in love with the stage working with the local theatre group beginning at the age of eleven.
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Laura Linney has a half-sister named Susan from her father's second marriage.
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Laura Linney is a 1982 graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, a preparatory school in Massachusetts for which she currently serves as the chair of the Arts Advisory Council.
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Laura Linney then attended Northwestern University before transferring to Brown University, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh and served on the board of Production Workshop, the university's student theater group.
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Laura Linney went on to study acting at the Juilliard School as a member of Group 19, which included Jeanne Tripplehorn.
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In 2003, Laura Linney received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Brown.
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Laura Linney received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Juilliard when she delivered the school's commencement address in 2009.
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Laura Linney made her New York stage debut in 1990 as Nina in the Off Broadway adaptation of "The Seagull" set in the Hamptons.
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Laura Linney first appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including Lorenzo's Oil, Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Dave.
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In 1993, Laura Linney starred in the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City as Mary Ann Singleton.
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Laura Linney returned as Mary Ann Singleton in 1998 in More Tales of the City.
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Laura Linney played a blonde American singer who successfully claimed "battered woman syndrome" as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.
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Laura Linney was then cast in a series of thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power.
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Laura Linney made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, praised for playing Jim Carrey's on-screen wife Meryl Burbank in Peter Weir's science-fiction comedy drama film The Truman Show.
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Laura Linney received a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her performance as John Proctor's prudish wife Elizabeth.
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Also in 2002, Laura Linney appeared on Sandra Boynton's children's CD Philadelphia Chickens alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone.
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In 2003, Laura Linney appeared in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River alongside Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden.
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Laura Linney appeared in Alan Parker's The Life of David Gale alongside Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey.
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Laura Linney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award.
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That same year Laura Linney had a recurring role in the comedy series Frasier as Charlotte, the final love interest of Frasier Crane.
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Laura Linney won her second Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Laura Linney earned her second Tony Award nomination for her performance.
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In 2005, Laura Linney starred in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale alongside Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg.
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Laura Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year alongside Robin Williams and the comedy-drama The Nanny Diaries opposite Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
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Also in 2006 Laura Linney played the role of Claire in the Australian movie Jindabyne, alongside Gabriel Byrne.
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In 2007, Laura Linney appeared in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Wendy Savage, a struggling playwright.
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Laura Linney received a third Academy Award nomination for her performance.
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In 2008, Laura Linney starred as Abigail Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams directed by Tom Hooper.
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Laura Linney won her third Primetime Emmy Award for her performance.
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Since 2009, Laura Linney has served as host of the PBS television series Masterpiece Classic.
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Laura Linney became a popular meme and vine for her introductions when saying, "Hi, I'm Laura Linney and this is Masterpiece Classic".
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In 2009, Linney took part of the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in which she read passages from Franklin D Roosevelt, and John F Kennedy.
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In 2010, Laura Linney starred in the Broadway production of Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies alongside Brian D'Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone at the Cort Theatre from January 28,2010, through March 27,2010.
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Laura Linney received her third Tony Award nomination for her performance.
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That same year, Linney returned to television in Showtime's half-hour series about cancer, The Big C She served as both an actress and executive producer on the show.
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Laura Linney starred as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of suffering cancer, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is.
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Laura Linney starred in Genius alongside Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Dominic West.
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Laura Linney appeared briefly in Tom Ford's critical hit Nocturnal Animals alongside Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon.
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Laura Linney has been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances in both seasons one and two and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for seasons two, three and four.
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Laura Linney alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Nixon.
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Laura Linney received her fourth Tony Award nomination for her performance.
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In 2018, Laura Linney starred in a monologue play adapted from the Elizabeth Strout novel by Rona Munro titled My Name Is Lucy Barton, which opened at the Bridge Theatre in London with direction by Richard Eyre.
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Laura Linney reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in the 2019 Netflix miniseries Tales of the City based on the Tales of the City series alongside Olympia Dukakis and Elliot Page.
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In 2020, Laura Linney starred in Falling opposite Viggo Mortensen, who directed.
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Laura Linney next starred in The Roads Not Taken, directed by Sally Potter, alongside Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning.
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In 2020, Linney reprised her role in My Name Is Lucy Barton, returning to Broadway in the American premiere at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre.
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Preview performances began on January 6,2020, with the play officially opening on January 15, Laura Linney received rave reviews from critics, with The New York Times describing her as "luminous".
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In 2020, it was reported that Laura Linney would be starring in an Irish drama film, The Miracle Club, with Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates.
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In 2022, Laura Linney made her television directorial debut with the eleventh episode of Ozark's final season.
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Laura Linney married actor David Adkins in 1995; they divorced in 2000.
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Laura Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18,2009.
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Laura Linney has received numerous accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Laura Linney has received nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and five Tony Awards.
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Laura Linney has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:.