1. Linda Edna Cardellini was born on June 25,1975 and is an American actress.
23 Facts About Linda Cardellini
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Linda Cardellini's starring role in the Netflix dark comedy series Dead to Me earned her a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.
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In film, Cardellini became known for playing Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo and its 2004 sequel.
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Linda Cardellini played Laura Barton and voiced Lylla in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Linda Edna Cardellini was born on June 25,1975, in Redwood City, California, United States.
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Linda Cardellini's father, Wayne David Cardellini, is a businessman, and her mother, Lorraine, is a homemaker.
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Linda Cardellini made her first public appearance at age ten when she sang in a school play.
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Linda Cardellini graduated from St Francis High School in Mountain View in 1993 and then moved to Los Angeles to seek roles in television and film.
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Linda Cardellini was a contestant in a 1994 episode of The Price Is Right, winning a fireplace.
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Linda Cardellini attended Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts, where she graduated with a degree in theater arts in 1997.
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Linda Cardellini was recognized as a "Distinguished Alumna" by the university in 2007.
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Linda Cardellini received her first big break role in 1996 as Sarah on ABC's Saturday morning live-action children's series, Bone Chillers.
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Linda Cardellini starred in the first season of the AMC series The Lot in 1999, and spent the summer in Europe as part of a touring production of Lancelot, a fourteenth-century Dutch tragedy.
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Linda Cardellini starred in the live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo in 2002, in which she played the cartoon character Velma Dinkley.
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Linda Cardellini later reprised the role of Velma in 2004's Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
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Linda Cardellini joined the cast of the hospital drama ER in 2003 as Samantha Taggart, a free-spirited nurse.
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Linda Cardellini was the voice of Ursula in the role-playing video game Gladius and played the voice of Bliss Goode on the ABC animated series The Goode Family.
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In 2007, Linda Cardellini was chosen to play lovelorn Clara in the CBS miniseries Comanche Moon, a prequel to 1989's Lonesome Dove.
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In 2010 and 2011, Linda Cardellini returned to the stage with the Dr God comedy group in Los Angeles and San Francisco, appeared in Kill the Irishman and Super, and starred in the independent film Return.
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Linda Cardellini appeared with cast members and producers of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared at the Paley Center for Media PaleyFest on March 12,2011.
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In 2020, Linda Cardellini appeared in the biographical drama film Capone as Mae Capone, the wife of the title character.
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On March 24,2025 it was announced that Linda Cardellini would be appearing as Pamela Voorhees, mother of Jason Voorhees, in the upcoming Peacock series Crystal Lake which will be a prequel to the Friday the 13th film series.
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Linda Cardellini dated her Freaks and Geeks co-star Jason Segel for several years following the show's cancellation in 2000.