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Laura Linney
Linney at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Laura Leggett Linney February 5, 1964 (1964-02-05) (age 46) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Spouse(s)	David Adkins (1995–2000)

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 Film 2.2 Television 2.3 Theater/other 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

Personal life

Linney was born in New York City. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and her father, Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and professor.¹²³⁴ Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.⁵ She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then attended Northwestern University before transferring to Brown University, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. Linney then went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.³

Linney married David Adkins in 1995. They divorced in 2000. In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer, a real estate agent from Telluride, Colorado.⁶

Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.⁷

Career

Film

Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including Dave in 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-series Tales of the City.³ She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998 when she played Jim Carrey's wife in The Truman Show, for which she received critical acclaim.³

In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me.³ The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget, critically praised film Maze with Rob Morrow. 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.³

In 2005, Linney starred in horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale; for the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy". In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year, the comedy Driving Lessons (starring Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame), and the Australian drama Jindabyne by Ray Lawrence. Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carver's short novel So Much Water so Close to Home.

In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thriller Breach, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,⁸ and The Savages, where Linney starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman³ She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film - this time as Best Actress.⁹ Columnist Liz Smith commented in the New York Post that Linney is "very hot, reputation wise", due to her Oscar nomination for The Savages.^{citation needed}

Recently, Linney starred in The Other Man, alongside Antonio Banderas and Liam Neeson, the latter whom she had acted alongside in Kinsey and Love Actually.

Television

Linney starred as Mary Ann Singleton in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" for Wild Iris. In 2004, she had won her second 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.³ In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-series John Adams.³ She also received a Golden Globe and SAG award for Best Performance by an Actress In a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in 2009 for this role.

Laura Linney will give series television a try in Showtime's new half-hour series about cancer, Showtime announced on August 27, 2009. The series, tentatively titled The C Word, will also be executive produced by Linney, who stars as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of a cancer battle.¹⁰

Theater/other

Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler (for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award), Holiday (based on the 1938 movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and her Best Actress Tony Award-nominated 2002 role in The Crucible (where she appeared alongside future The Exorcism Of Emily Rose co-star Jennifer Carpenter). She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen.

Linney also appeared on Sandra Boynton's children's CD, Philadelphia Chickens, on which she sings "Please Can I Keep It?", and played La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses.¹¹

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	Lorenzo's Oil	Young Teacher
1993	Dave	Randi
	Class of '61	Lily Magraw	TV film
	Tales of the City	Mary Ann Singleton	TV mini-series
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	School Teacher
	Blind Spot	Phoebe
1994	A Simple Twist of Fate	Nancy Lambert Newland
1995	Congo	Dr. Karen Ross
1996	Primal Fear	Janet Venable
1997	Absolute Power	Kate Whitney
1998	The Truman Show	Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill	Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama
	More Tales of the City	Mary Ann Singleton	TV mini-series
1999	Love Letters	Melisa Gardner Cobb	TV film
	Lush	Rachel Van Dyke
2000	The House of Mirth	Bertha Dorset
	You Can Count on Me	Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture
	Maze	Callie
	Running Mates	Lauren Hartman	TV film
2001	Wild Iris	Iris Bravard	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film
	Further Tales of the City	Mary Ann Singleton	TV mini-series
2002	The Mothman Prophecies	Officer Connie Mills
	The Laramie Project	Sherry Johnson
2003	The Life of David Gale	Constance Harraway
	Mystic River	Annabeth Markum	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Love Actually	Sarah	Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
	Frasier	Mindy (1 episode, voice) Charlotte (5 episodes)	Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
2004	Kinsey	Clara McMillen	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
	P.S.	Louise Harrington	Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
2005	The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Erin Bruner	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
	The Squid and the Whale	Joan Berkman	Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
2006	Jindabyne	Claire	Nominated — Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated — Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role
	Driving Lessons	Laura Marshall
	Man of the Year	Eleanor Green
	The Hottest State	Jesse
2007	Breach	Kate Burroughs
	The Savages	Wendy Savage	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated — Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
	The Nanny Diaries	Mrs. X
2008	John Adams	Abigail Adams	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film
	The City of Your Final Destination	Caroline
	The Other Man	Lisa
2009	Morning		forthcoming film
	Sympathy for Delicious	Nina Hogue	forthcoming film
2010	The Details	Lila	forthcoming film

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Linney

• Laura Linney at the Internet Movie Database
• Laura Linney at the Internet Broadway Database
• Laura Linney at TV.com
• BlackFilm interview (August, 2005)
• Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)
• Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)
• PlumTV talks to the Lovely Laura Linney (January, 2008)

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