Actor
Laura Linney
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Wildcat | Regina O'Connor
2024 -- Suncoast | Kristine
2023 -- The Miracle Club | Chrissie Ahearn
2022 -- The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later | Self
2022 -- Bonnie | Self
2022 -- A Farewell to Ozark | Self
2020 -- The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Hannah Pitt
2020 -- Falling | Sarah (45 Yrs)
2020 -- Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Self
2020 -- The Roads Not Taken | Rita
2018 -- Olympia | Herself
2017 -- The Dinner | Claire Lohman
2017 -- Red Nose Day Actually | Sarah (US version)
2017 -- The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self
2016 -- Nocturnal Animals | Anne Sutton
2016 -- Sully | Lorraine Sullenberger
2016 -- Genius | Louise Saunders
2016 -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Chief Vincent
2015 -- Mr. Holmes | Mrs. Munro
2013 -- The Fifth Estate | Sarah Shaw
2013 -- Morning | Doctor Goodman
2013 -- Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice)
2012 -- Hyde Park on Hudson | Daisy
2012 -- The Details | Lila
2011 -- Arthur Christmas | North Pole Computer (voice)
2010 -- Sympathy for Delicious | Nina Hogue
2009 -- The City of Your Final Destination | Caroline Gund
2009 -- We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self
2008 -- The Other Man | Lisa
2008 -- Mon Clown | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- The Savages | Wendy Savage
2007 -- The Nanny Diaries | Mrs. X
2007 -- Breach | Kate Burroughs
2006 -- Man of the Year | Eleanor Green
2006 -- Driving Lessons | Laura Marshall
2006 -- The Hottest State | Jesse
2006 -- Jindabyne | Claire
2006 -- Annie Oakley | Narrator (voice)
2006 -- The Armenian Genocide | Maria Jacobsen (voice)
2005 -- The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman
2005 -- The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Erin Bruner
2005 -- Mary Pickford | Narrator
2004 -- P.S. | Louise Harrington
2004 -- Kinsey | Clara McMillen
2003 -- Mystic River | Annabeth Markum
2003 -- Love Actually | Sarah
2003 -- The Life of David Gale | Constance Hallaway
2002 -- The Mothman Prophecies | Connie Mills
2002 -- The Laramie Project | Sherry Johnson
2002 -- Woodrow Wilson | voice
2001 -- Maze | Callie
2001 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams | Zelda Fitzgerald
2001 -- Wild Iris | Iris Bravard
2000 -- You Can Count on Me | Samantha Prescott
2000 -- The House of Mirth | Bertha Dorset
2000 -- Running Mates | Lauren Hartman
1999 -- Love Letters | Melissa Gardner Cobb
1999 -- Lush | Rachel Van Dyke
1998 -- The Truman Show | Meryl Burbank / Hannah Gill
1998 -- The Truman Show: Tru-Talk | Hannah Gill
1997 -- Absolute Power | Kate Whitney
1996 -- Primal Fear | Janet Venable
1995 -- Congo | Dr. Karen Ross
1994 -- A Simple Twist of Fate | Nancy Lambert Newland
1993 -- Searching for Bobby Fischer | School Teacher
1993 -- Dave | Randi
1993 -- Blind Spot | Phoebe
1993 -- Class of '61 | Lily Magraw
1992 -- Lorenzo's Oil | Young Teacher
1985 -- Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud |
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