Laura Linney

Laura Linney is an American actress born the February 5th 1964 with New York.

In some dates

  • 1964 : Birth the February 5th with New York of a father playwright and a mother nurse.
  • 1986 : She becomes actress while being graduate Brown University and in 1990 of the Juilliard School.
  • 1992 : She is rewarded for the Theater World Award for Sight Unseen and begins with the cinema in Lorenzo in a small role.
  • 1993 : She obtains its first big role, that of the female main role (Mary Ann Singleton) in the televisual adaptation of the Chroniques of San Francisco.
  • 1995 : First principal feminine role in the film Congo .
  • 1996 : primal Fear , film in lequelle it incarnates a lawyer of the civil part, is worth to him to be definitively known and to have a role in the full powerss , a film of (and with) Clint Eastwood the following year: that of the girl of a burglar incarnated by Eastwood.
  • 1998 : Its role in The Truman Show devotes it thanks to a nomination to Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
  • 2000 : Thanks to You can count on me , whose it has the main role, it are nominated with the Oscars and obtain several prices for his service.
  • 2002 : Fact part of prestigious casting in the Project Laramie and finds Richard Gere in the Prophecy of the shades , after primal Peur . Emmy Awards of the best actress for Wild Iris . Play in the theatrical resumption of the Sorcières of Salem
  • 2003: the Life of David Gale , Mystic To rivet (where it turns over for the second time under the direction of Clint Eastwood), Love Actually is worth in Laura Linney to be varied in kinds of films.
  • 2004 : Emmy Awards of best the guest-star in a sitcom for Frasier
  • 2005: the Exorcism of Emily Pink
  • 2006: Make two films out of the the United States: Jindabyne in Australia and Driving Let us injure in England (after Love Actually ).
  • 2007 : Double agent leaves in France the November 28th in rooms.

Biography

Laura Leggett Linney (its complete name) was born with New York. His/her father is Romulus Linney, celebrates playwright in On the other side of the Atlantic and his mother (Persian Year, born Leggett), nurse.

His/her parents divorce, his father remarie and Laura will have a half-sister, Susan.

Beginnings

Laura Linney, coldly graduate - after having obtained in 1982 the Northfield Mount Hermon School, it is graduate Brown University (which it obtained in 1986) and of the Juilliard School (which it obtained in 1990) and its formation at the School of Theater of Moscow supplements, begins with the theater.

The theater, she played in parts such Sight Unseen which is worth the Theater World Award to him and a quotation in Drama Desk.

She begins with the cinema in 1992 in secondary roles, with Lorenzo where she incarnates a young teacher, then the following year with one day old President as an assistant and mistress of the President of the the United States.

She also plays in the telefilms Class of' 61 (whose executive producer is Steven Spielberg) and Blind Spot .

Recognition, big roles and rewards

But it is with main roles on television with: Chronicles of San Francisco , in the role of Mary Ann Singleton, in 1993 and with the cinema with Congo in 1995 (the film did not meet a large public and critical success at the time of its exit into the room), in the role of the scientist Karen Ross and primal Peur in the role of Janet Venable, lawyer of defense, the following year which she is recognized by the public and becomes an actress famous and requested.

Since, it connects turnings with - for the majority - roles as an main actor:

  • with the cinema :
    • girl of a burglar who works with justice (incarnated by Clint Eastwood) in the full powerss
    • " épouse" stressed of Truman (incarnated by Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show - or its role is worth a nomination in Blockbuster to him Entertainment Awards
    • employed of bank and unmarried mother in You can count on me where it is rewarded by several prices and is nominated with the Oscars for her service
    • police woman in a small town in the Prophecy of the shades where it finds Richard Gere after Primal Peur
    • militant against the capital punishment in the Life of David Gale
    • employee in love with one colleague in Coils Actually
    • mother touched by a drama in Mystic River , where it turns for the second time under the direction of Clint Eastwood after the Full powerss
    • woman of the sexologist recognized and discussed Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey
    • lawyer defending a priest in the death of an young woman during an exorcism in the Exorcism of Emily Pink
    • novelist with success at the edge of the divorce in Berkman separate
    • possessive mother in Driving Lessons
    • agent of FBI in Double agent

while playing of the various kinds (Fantastic Film of horror/, Dramatic comedy, Sentimental comedy, of the dramatic films, and thrillers).

  • on television :
    • Running Matt where it belongs to a prestigious casting
    • Frasier of which it obtains Emmy Award of the best guest-star.

Put aside the the United States, it turned of films in England ( Driving Lessons , Love Actually ) and in Australia ( Jindabyne ), of films with large budgets and independent films.

She also played in 2002 with the theater in the resumption with Broadway of the Sorcières of Salem which is worth to him a quotation with the Tony Awards.

In 2006 and 2007, it is with the poster in others of Man off the Year with Robin Williams, Breach with Ryan Philippe and The Nanny Diaries with Scarlett Johansson.

Private life

Laura Linney Marie in September 1995 with David Adkins. But they will divorce five years later. In 2001, it was the boyfriend of the actor Eric Stoltz, but separate.

In August 2007, it becomes engaged to Marc Schauer.

Catalog of films

Cinema

Television

Theatrography

  • The Cherry Orchard (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Charlotte
  • Golden delicious Servant boy (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Lorna Moon
  • The Winter' S Bruises (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Hermione
  • Heartbreak House (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Ellie
  • The Matriarch (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Rachel
  • Signal Girls (Juilliard School) (years 1980): Isabella/Joyce
  • Childe Byron (Brown University) (1986): Ada
  • Steel Magniolias (East Carolina) Reference mark (??) : Shelby
  • Fortinbras (La Jolla Playhouse) (June 18th, 1991): Ophelia
  • Forgetting Frankie (Manhattan Class Company) (??) : Felice
  • When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder (Off Broadway) (??) : Claire
  • Beggars in the House off Plenty (City Center Training course II NY) (Oct. 3 - Dec. 8, 1991): Sheila
  • Landscape off the Body (Yale Repertory Theater) (1992): Betty
  • Sight Unseen (City Center Training course II NY) (January 7th - March 22nd, 1992): Grete
  • Sight Unseen (Orpheum Theater NY) (March 26th - Sept. 6, 1992): Grete
  • the Gull ( The Seagull ) (Lyceum Theater NY) (Nov. 29, 1992 - January 10th, 1993): Nina
  • Six Dismantle Separation off (Broadway) (Nov. 8, 1990 - Jan. 5, 1992): Tess
  • Hedda Gabler (Criterion Theater NY) (July 10th - August 7th, 1994): Thea Elvsted
  • Holiday (Circle in the Public garden NY) (Dec. 3, 1996 - January 14th, 1997): Linda Seton
  • Honor (Belasco Theater NY) (April 26th - June 14th, 1998): Claudia
  • Uncle Vanya (Brooks Atkinson Theater NY) (April 30th - June 11th, 2000): Yelena
  • Barefoot in the Park (Voice off America Auditorium) (June 13rd - June 14th, 2001): Corie Bratter
  • Witches of Salem ( The Crucible ) (Virginia Theater NY) (March 7th - June 2002): Elizabeth Proctor
  • Sight Unseen (Biltmore Theater NY) (May 6th - July 11th, 2004): Patricia

Rewards and nominations

Rewards

  • 1992 : Theater World Award for Sight Unseen
  • 1994: Calloway Award for Hedda Gabler
  • 2000: Toronto Film Critics Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count one Me
  • 2000: National Society off Film Critics Awards Best Actress
  • 2000: Boston Society off Film Critics Award Best Actress
  • 2000: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress
  • 2000: New York Film Critics Award Best Actress for You Edge Count one Me
  • 2002: Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress for Wild Iris
  • 2003: Boston Society off Film Critics Awards Best Cast Unit for Mystic To rivet
  • 2004: Pride Awards Special Civilian Rights Award
  • 2004: National Board off Review Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2004: Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2004: Emmy Awards Best Guest Actress In has Comedy Series for Frasier
  • 2005: Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey

Nominations

  • 1992 : Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in has Play for Sight Unseen
  • 1999: Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Supporting Actress for The Truman Show
  • 2000: Golden Globes Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2000: Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2000: Independent Spirit Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2000: Academy Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2000: Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2000: Chicago Film Critics Awards Best Actress for You Edge Count One Me
  • 2002: Tony Awards Best Actress for The Crucible
  • 2003: Exclusive DVD Awards Best Actress for Lush
  • 2004: Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance By has Cast for Mystic River
  • 2004: BAFTA Awards Best Supporting Actress for Mystic To rivet
  • 2005: Broadcast Critic' S Choice Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2005: Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2005: Satellite Golden delicious Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2005: Satellite Golden delicious Awards Best Actress for P.S.
  • 2005: Golden Globes Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2005: Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey
  • 2005: Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress for Kinsey

Anecdotes

  • It is thanks to its role in primal Peur , that Clint Eastwood, impressed by its service, engaged Laura Linney to play his/her daughter in the full powerss.
  • It gained 10.000 dollars of wages for You can count on me .
  • has a yellow Labrador dog which it named Eleonora Duse, in homage to the actress Eleonora Duse.

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