Laura Linney

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Laura Linney
Linney in 2017
Born
Laura Leggett Linney

(1964-02-05) February 5, 1964 (age 60)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materBrown University (BA)
Juilliard School (GrDip)
OccupationActress
Years active1990–present
Spouses
  • David Adkins
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1995; div. 2000)​
  • Marc Schauer
    ​
    (m. 2009)​
Children1
Parent
  • Romulus Zachariah Linney
    (great-great-grandfather)

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964)[1] 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 receiving 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 revival of The Little Foxes. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–2004) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark
.

Linney is also an established film actress. She made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007). She is also known for her performances in Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River and Love Actually (both 2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Mr. Holmes (2015), Sully and Nocturnal Animals (both 2016).

Early life and education

Linney was born in

Romulus Zachariah Linney
. She has a half-sister named Susan from her father's second marriage.

Linney is a 1982 graduate of

Lady Ada Lovelace in a production of Childe Byron, a drama in which the poet Lord Byron
mends a taut, distant relationship with his daughter Ada. [5]

Linney graduated from Brown in 1986.[6] and went on to study acting at the Juilliard School as a member of Group 19 (1986–90), which also included Jeanne Tripplehorn.[7] In 2003, Linney received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Brown.[8] She received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Juilliard when she delivered the school's commencement address in 2009.[9]

Career

1990s

Linney made her New York stage debut in 1990 as Nina in the Off Broadway adaptation of The Seagull set in the Hamptons. Conceived and directed by Jeff Cohen, the acclaimed production was mounted at the RAPP Arts Center in Alphabet City to great critical acclaim. The New York Times wrote: "Best of all is Miss Linney's Nina. From a naive, idealistic artist's groupie with a streak of crazy determination, her Nina emerges as a woman who is a lot stronger and more complicated than the terminally wounded bird-woman that is the character's traditional interpretation. Though deeply embittered at the end of the play, she is also fortifed by a hard-won self-knowledge. Miss Linney projects the character's ambiguities with stinging force and clarity. She is clearly a talent of enormous potential."[10]

Linney first appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including

battered woman syndrome
" as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.

Throughout the 1990s, Linney appeared on stage on Broadway and elsewhere including in Hedda Gabler, for which she won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award,[11] and a revival of Holiday in December 1995 through January 1996 (the Philip Barry play upon which the 1938 movie starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn was based).[12]

She was then cast in a series of thrillers, including Congo (1995), Primal Fear (1996) and Absolute Power (1997). She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, praised for playing Jim Carrey's on-screen wife Meryl Burbank in Peter Weir's science-fiction comedy drama film The Truman Show.[3]

2000s

In 2000, she starred in Kenneth Lonergan's film

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

In 2002, she starred in the Broadway revival of

Virginia Theatre, which ran from March 2002 through June 2002. She received a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her performance as John Proctor's prudish wife Elizabeth.[15][16] Also in 2002, Linney appeared on Sandra Boynton's children's CD Philadelphia Chickens alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. Linney sings the song "Please Can I Keep It?".[17]

In 2003, Linney appeared in

BAFTA Award nomination for her performance as Annabeth Markum, the devoted second wife to Sean Penn's grief-stricken and revengeful character.[19] That same year she also starred in the holiday film Love Actually alongside Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, and Liam Neeson.[20] She also appeared in Alan Parker's The Life of David Gale (2003) alongside Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey
.

In 2004, she reunited with her Love Actually co-star Liam Neeson in

Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.[3] Also in 2004, she starred in the Broadway production of Sight Unseen at the Biltmore Theatre which ran from May 2004 through July 2004. She earned her second Tony Award nomination for her performance.[21][22]

In 2005, Linney starred in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale alongside Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg. It received rave reviews from critics earning a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "this is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family."[23] She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance.[24] Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year (2006) alongside Robin Williams and the comedy-drama The Nanny Diaries opposite Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.[25]

Also in 2006 Linney played the role of Claire in the Australian movie Jindabyne, alongside Gabriel Byrne. It was shot on location in the town of the same name in south west NSW.

Linney at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama

In 2007, Linney also appeared in Tamara Jenkins's The Savages with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Wendy Savage, a struggling playwright.[3] She received a third Academy Award nomination for her performance.[26]

In 2008, Linney starred as

Masterpiece Classic. She became a popular meme and vine for her introductions when saying, "Hi, I'm Laura Linney and this is Masterpiece Classic".[29]

In 2009, Linney took part of the

Presidential Inaugural Committee, "The Sunday afternoon performance will be grounded in history and brought to life with entertainment that relates to the themes that shaped Barack Obama, and which will be the hallmarks of his administration." Obama spoke at the end of the event which featured actors reading historical passages as well as musical performances.[30]

2010s

In 2010, Linney starred in the Broadway production of

Primetime Emmy Award
for the final season of the series.

Linney at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin (2016)

In 2012, she starred in

Chesley Sullenberger. The film was a critical and commercial success making almost US$240 million at the box office.[34]

She starred in Genius (2016) alongside Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Dominic West. She appeared briefly in Tom Ford's critical hit Nocturnal Animals alongside Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon. The consensus from the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is, "Well-acted and lovely to look at, Nocturnal Animals further underscores writer-director Tom Ford's distinctive visual and narrative skill".[35]

From 2017 to 2022, she appeared in Netflix's crime drama series

Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances in both seasons one and two and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
for seasons two, three and four.

In 2017, she starred in the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes alongside Cynthia Nixon at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre from April 19 to July 2, 2017. She alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Nixon.[37] She received her fourth Tony Award nomination for her performance.[38] In 2018, Linney starred in a monologue play adapted from the Elizabeth Strout novel by Rona Munro titled My Name Is Lucy Barton, at the Bridge Theatre in London directed by Richard Eyre. It previewed on June 2, 2018, and opened on June 6.[39]

Linney reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in the 2019 Netflix miniseries Tales of the City based on the Tales of the City series alongside Olympia Dukakis and Elliot Page.

2020s

In 2020, Linney starred in Falling opposite Viggo Mortensen, who also directed.[40] It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2020.[41] She next starred in The Roads Not Taken, directed by Sally Potter, alongside Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning.[42] It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 26, 2020.[43] Its general release was on March 13, 2020, but was pulled from theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, subsequently releasing on video on demand on April 10.[44]

In 2020, Linney reprised her role in My Name Is Lucy Barton, returning to Broadway in the American premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Preview performances began on January 6, 2020, with the play officially opening on January 15, Linney received rave reviews from critics, with The New York Times describing her as "luminous".[45] For her performance she received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and her fifth nomination for a Tony Award.[46][47]

In 2020, it was reported that Linney would star in the Irish film drama, The Miracle Club, with Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates. Its plot was described as a "joyful and hilarious" journey of a group of riotous working-class women from Dublin, whose pilgrimage to Lourdes in France leads them to discover each other's friendship and their own personal miracles." As of December 2021 it was in pre-production, having received sustaining funding from the U.K. Global Screen Fund.[48] The Miracle Club premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.[49]

In 2022, Linney made her television directorial debut with the eleventh episode of Ozark's final season ("Pound of Flesh and Still Kickin'").[50]

In 2023, Linney starred on Broadway in Summer, 1976 written by David Auburn opposite Jessica Hecht. Performances began April 25, 2023 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The run ended on June 18, 2023.

Personal life

Linney married actor David Adkins in 1995; they divorced in 2000.[51][52] In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer, a drug and alcohol counselor[53] from Telluride, Colorado.[54] On her wedding day in May 2009, actor Liam Neeson walked her down the aisle.[55] On January 8, 2014, Linney gave birth to a son.[56] Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.[57]

Filmography

Main article: Laura Linney on screen and stage

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Laura Linney

Linney has received numerous accolades including two

BAFTA Award, and five Tony Awards
.

Linney has also been nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for:

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