Laura Linney

Laura Linney is an American actress who has acted in nearly 50 films and television series throughout her career. The daughter of playwright Romulus Linney, Linney was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Brown University before attending Juilliard School for stage-acting.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-457647/Lucky-Laura-Linney.html#ixzz1ANes4xTO Linney's first film role was in Lorenzo's Oil in 1992, when the actress was 28 years old. She later appeared in Primal Fear, in which she played the ex-girlfriend of Richard Gere's character.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/bio

Linney has won 26 awards and has been nominated for 35 more. Her three Emmy Award wins were for her roles in John Adams (2008), Wild Iris (2001) and Frasier (1993). She received three Academy Award nominations for her roles in You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004) and The Savages (2008).http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/awards

Linney won a 2011 Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical" for her work on The Big C. The Big C is about a woman from Minneapolis who learns she has cancer and decides to drastically change the way she lives her life.http://www.sho.com/site/thebigc/home.do Other Golden Globe-nominated actresses in this same category included Toni Collette, Edi Falco, Tina Fey and Lea Michele.http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

Linney's film career began in the early 1990s with relatively minor roles in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and Dave (1993). She played the role of Mary Anne Singleton in the PBS film adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, including "Tales of the City" (1993), "More Tales of the City" (1998) and "Further Tales of the City" (2001). Linney played her first major role in a feature film when she acted as the ex-girlfriend of Richard Gere's character in Primal Fear (1996). Her performance in Primal Fear prompted Clint Eastwood to choose her to play his daughter in Absolute Power (1997). She was then billed to play in the following year's The Truman Show (1998) as Jim Carrey's wife.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/bio

Linney's career accelerated at the turn of the 21st century; she acted in two or more films or TV series every year between 2000 and 2010.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/ Linney's first Academy Award nomination was for her lead role in You Can Count on Me (2000), for which her compensation had been $10,000. She played Sammy, a single mother whose life is complicated by a new boss and her needy brother. Her other dramatic roles have been in feature films such as Mystic River (2003), Kinsey (2004), The Squid and the Whale (2005) and The Savages (2007). In Kinsey, she played the wife of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in human sexuality research, and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362269/ Her third Academy Award nomination was for her role in The Savages, in which she co-starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a brother-sister pair trying to care for their ailing father.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775529/

• 1992: Lorenzo's Oil
• 1993: Tales of the City
• 1993: Dave
• 1993: Blind Spot
• 1993: Class of '61
• 1993: Searching for Bobby Fisher
• 1994: A Simple Twist of Fate
• 1995: Congo
• 1996: Primal Fear
• 1997: Absolute Power
• 1998: More Tales of the City
• 1998: The Truman Show
• 1999: Love Letters
• 1999: Lush
• 2000: Maze
• 2000: Running Mates
• 2000: The House of Mirth
• 2000: You Can Count on Me
• 2001: Wild Iris
• 2001: Further Tales of the City
• 2002: The Mothman Prophecies
• 2002: The Laramie Project
• 2003: The Life of David Gale
• 2003: Mystic River
• 2003: Love Actually
• 2003: Frasier
• 2004: P.S.
• 2004: Kinsey
• 2005 The Squid and the Whale
• 2005: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• 2006: Driving Lessons
• 2006: Jindabyne
• 2006: The Hottest State
• 2006: Man of the Year
• 2007: The Savages
• 2007: Breach
• 2007: The Nanny Diaries
• 2008: John Adams
• 2008: The Other Man
• 2009: The City of Your Final Destination
• 2010: The Big C
• 2010: Morning
• 2010: Sympathy for Delicious
• 2010: The Detailshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/

"I think you have to work on your own terms, choose the projects that are right for you that make you comfortable, and then you are never going to blame someone else for whatever happened. I am never going to feel [that] Hollywood did me wrong or [that] I wasn't given a fair shot, because I have made my own decisions and loved the work I have done." — Laura Linneyhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-457647/Lucky-Laura-Linney.html

"That’s the great challenge of TV. It’s fast and furious, and it can do things that film and theater can’t do. For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. You also don’t know what’s coming." — Laura Linneyhttp://collider.com/laura-linney-interview-the-big-c/44092/

"I love working in different mediums. I find it really challenging. And, the television that I’ve done has been some of the happiest experiences I’ve ever had. Tales of the City and John Adams are projects that I deeply love." — Laura Linneyhttp://collider.com/laura-linney-interview-the-big-c/44092/