Laura Linney

Infobox actor


caption = Linney at the Chicago International Film Festival, 2007
birthname = Laura Leggett Linney
birthdate = birth date and age|1964|2|5
birthplace = New York City, New York
yearsactive = 1992 - present
spouse = David Adkins (1995-2000)
emmyawards = Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie
2002 "Wild Iris"
2008 " John Adams"
Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
2004 "Frasier"
awards = NYFCC Award for Best Actress
2000 "You Can Count on Me"
NBR Award for Best Supporting Actress
2004 "Kinsey"

Laura Leggett Linney [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n3_v27/ai_19481680 Stah-lit express - Laura Linney - Interview | Interview | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] [http://www.filmreference.com/film/35/Laura-Linney.html Laura Linney Biography (1964-) ] ] (born February 5, 1964) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, a three time Golden Globe nominee and a three-time Emmy Award-winning American actress, active in movies, television, and theatre.

Biography

Personal life

Linney was born in New York City. Her mother, 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. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026206/bio Laura Linney Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. [ [http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/linneyhistory/documents.php The Linney History Page ] ] 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, Linney went on tostudy acting at the Juilliard School.

Linney married David Adkins in 1995. They divorced in 2000. As of 2007, she was engaged to Marc Schauer, a real estate agent in Telluride, Colorado. [ [http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20052610,00.html Laura Linney Is Engaged - Engagements, Laura Linney : People.com ] ]

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". 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 was cast as Jim Carrey's wife in "The Truman Show", for which she received much critical acclaim.

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". That 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.

In 2005, Linney starred in horror film "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", and the 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". In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire "Man of the Year" and also the comedy "Driving Lessons" (starring Rupert Grint of "Harry Potter" fame).

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, [ [http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=2363 Linney Opens The Nanny Diaries ] ] and "The Savages", where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman played siblings. She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film - this time as Best Actress. [ [http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13494 Philip Seymour Hoffman's Next is The Savages] ]

Recently, the actress played in "The Other Man", film where she plays beside Liam Neeson, where she finds four years later "Kinsey" and Antonio Banderas.

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". 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".

Theatre/other

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 1938 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?"

Columnist Liz Smith commented in the "New York Post" that Linney is "very hot, reputation wise", due to her Oscar nomination for "The Savages". Linney also appeared as La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton's play "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". [ [http://www.nypost.com/seven/03132008/gossip/liz/watch_the_hot_actress_thrive__101713.htm Watch the hot actress thrive!] ]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

* "You Can Count On Me" (2000)
** Academy Award
*** Best Actress
** Golden Globe Award
*** Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
** National Film Critics
*** Best Actress
** New York Film Critics
*** Best Actress
** Online Film Critics
*** Best Actress

*"Kinsey" (2004)
** Academy Award
*** Best Supporting Actress
** Golden Globe Award
*** Best Supporting Actress
** National Board of Review
*** Best Supporting Actress
** Online Film Critics
*** Best Supporting Actress

*"The Squid and the Whale" (2005)
** Golden Globe Award
*** Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
** Gotham Awards
*** Best Cast
** Independent Spirit Awards
*** Best Actress

References

External links

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* [http://www.blackfilm.com/20050826/features/lauralinney.shtml BlackFilm interview] (August, 2005)
* [http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/linney.shtml Combustible Celluloid interview] (February 17, 2003)
* [http://www.hollywood.com/feature/id/472850 Hollywood.com interview] (January 3, 2001)
* [http://telluride.plumtv.com/stories/plum_talks_lovely_laura_linney PlumTV talks to the Lovely Laura Linney] (January, 2008)

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title = NYFCC Award for Best Actress
years = 2000
for" You Can Count On Me"
before= Hilary Swank
for "Boys Don't Cry
after = Sissy Spacek
for "In the Bedroom"