LAURA LINNEY

'Laura Leggett Linney'^[1] (born February 5, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress, active in movies, television, and theatre.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Linney was born in New York City. Her father, Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and professor, and her mother, Ann Perse (née Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.^[2] Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.^[3] 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 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. After attending Brown University, Linney went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.
Linney married David Adkins (whom she met at Juilliard) in 1995. They divorced in 2000. As of 2007, she is engaged to Marc Schauer.^[4]

Career

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''. She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including ''Congo'', ''Primal Fear'' and ''Absolute Power''. 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. In 2005, Linney starred in ''The Exorcism of Emily Rose'' (a horror movie and courtroom drama), and the very well-reviewed comedy-drama, ''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". 2006 saw Linney appearing in the Robin Williams political satire ''Man of the Year'', the spy thriller ''Breach'', and the comedy ''Driving Lessons'' (starring Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame). Linney can currently be seen in ''The Nanny Diaries'', opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,^[5] and will soon be seen in ''The Savages'', where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play siblings.^[6]
Her important television roles include "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 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''. Her extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include ''Hedda Gabler'' (for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award), ''Holiday'' (based on the movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2002 as Best Actress (Play) for ''The Crucible'', and again in 2005 for ''Sight Unseen''.
Linney also appears on the Sandra Boynton's children's CD, ''Philadelphia Chickens'', on which she sings "Please Can I Keep It?"

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	''Congo''	Dr. Karen Ross
1996	''Primal Fear''	Janet Venable
1997	''Absolute Power''	Kate Whitney
1998	''The Truman Show''	Meryl Burbank/Hannah Gill
2000	''The House of Mirth''	Bertha Dorset
	''You Can Count on Me''	Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott	Academy Award nomination
	''Maze''	Callie
	''Running Mates''	Lauren Hartman
2001	''Wild Iris''	Iris
2002	''The Mothman Prophecies''	Connie Mills
2003	''Love Actually''	Sarah
	''Mystic River''	Annabeth Markum
	''The Life of David Gale''	Constance Harraway
2004	''Kinsey''	Clara McMillen	Academy Award nomination
	''P.S.''	Louise Harrington
2005	''The Exorcism of Emily Rose''	Erin Bruner
	''The Squid and the Whale''	Joan Berkman
2006	''Jindabyne''	Claire
	''Driving Lessons''	Laura Marshall
	''Man of the Year''	Eleanor Green
2007	''Breach''	Kate Burroughs
2007	''The Nanny Diaries''	Mrs. X

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/35/Laura-Linney.html
2. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026206/bio
3. http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/linneyhistory/documents.php
4. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20052610,00.html
5. http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=2363
6. http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13494

External links

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★ Laura-Linney.com unofficial fansite

★ MovieHole interview (September 8, 2005)

★ BlackFilm interview (August, 2005)

★ Sight Unseen interview, conducted by Romulus Linney (2004)

★ Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)

★ Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)