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Laura Linney Profile |
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Birth Date: February 25, 1964
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Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Laura Linney
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
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.
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, and the Savages, where Linney
and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play siblings.
Linney was married to David, 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
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Other
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Her father is respected Off-Broadway playwright Romulus
Linney.
Has a sister, Susan Linney.
Graduated from Brown University in 1986.
1990 graduate of the Juilliard School
Was nominated for Broadway's 2002 Tony Award as Best Actress
(Play) for portraying Elizabeth Proctor in a revival of
Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."
Graduated Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982
Her mother is a nurse.
She says that she was the worst at reading and writing in
her class.
Clint Eastwood picked her for the part of Kate Whitney in
his new movie Absolute Power (1997) after he saw her
performance in Primal Fear (1996).
Gained 30 pounds for her role in Kinsey (2004), mainly by
eating Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.
Has a yellow Labrador dog that she named Eleonora Duse,
after the actress.
Lives on a large estate in Connecticut near her friends
Kevin Bacon and Michael J. Fox.
Laura Linney was given the script for The Squid and the
Whale (2005) by Eric Stoltz, her boyfriend at that time,
while they were filming The House of Mirth (2000) in 2000.
She agreed to do the film immediately, but it took four
years to raise the financing.
Won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award, for Best Performance in
a Classic Drama, for her performance as Thea Elvsted in
"Hedda Gabler."
Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for "Sight Unseen" (Best
Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).
The writers Romulus Linney (father of Laura) and Jonathan
Baumbach (father of Noah who directed Linney in "The Squid
and the Whale"), spent time at Yaddo, an artists colony,
where they knew each other well enough to have gotten into a
car accident together. |
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