Laura Linney
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Image:Llinney.jpg Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an Oscar-nominated American actress.
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Biography
Early life
Linney was born in New York City. Her father, Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and her mother, Ann Leggett Perse, is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; she has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney was educated at the Northfield Mount Hermon School and Brown University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She also trained at the Juilliard School and at the Moscow Art Theatre.
Career
Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, before being cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. Her important television roles include "Mary Ann Singleton" in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books. Her extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler, Holiday (based on the movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and The Crucible.
In 2000, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me. In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, including Mystic River, Love Actually and The Life of David Gale. Her 2004 performance in Kinsey, as the title character's wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she won an Emmy Award as "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series", for her recurring role as the final love interest of Frasier Crane in the television series Frasier.
In 2005, Linney starred in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (a horror movie and courtroom drama), and the very well-reviewed comedy, The Squid and the Whale, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy".
Linney's upcoming films will include the political satire Man of the Year, the spy thriller Breach, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,[1] and the Savages, where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play siblings.[2]
Private life
Linney was married to David Adkins, whom she met at Julliard, from 1995 to 2000, and has dated actor Eric Stoltz. She has a yellow Labrador named Eleonora Duse, after the well-known actress.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman | |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Erin Bruner | |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Clara McMillen | |
| 2004 | P.S. | Louise Harrington | |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Sarah | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Annabeth Markum | |
| 2003 | The Life of David Gale | Constance Harraway | |
| 2002 | The Mothman Prophecies | Connie Mills | |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Bertha Dorset | |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me | Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott | |
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill | |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Kate Whitney | |
| 1996 | Primal Fear | Janet Venable | |
| 1995 | Congo | Dr. Karen Ross |
External links
Interviews
- MovieHole interview (September 8, 2005)
- Cinema Confidential interview (September 8, 2005)
- Newsweek interview (September 2, 2005)
- BlackFilm interview (August, 2005)
- Sight Unseen interview, conducted by Romulus Linney (2004)
- Cinema Confidential interview (October 18, 2004)
- MovieHole interview (October 7, 2003)
- Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)
- Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)