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Laura Linney
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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and…
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Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) 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 going on to receive 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 (2003–04) 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's 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).
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2027
Rode to Ruin
Movie
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2026
Onwards and Sideways
Movie Emma Dretzin
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2026
Lanterns
TV show Lianna
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2026
Euphoria: A Look Back
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2026
American Classic
TV show Kristen Forrest Bean
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2025
The American Revolution
TV show Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
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2025
Black Rabbit
TV show Director
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2024
Wildcat
Movie Regina O'Connor
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2024
Suncoast
Movie Kristine
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2023
The Miracle Club
Movie Chrissie Ahearn
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2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
TV show Self
- 2022
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2022
Bonnie
Movie Self
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2022
A Farewell to Ozark
Movie Self
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2022
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
TV show Self
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2020
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
Movie Narrator
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2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Movie Hannah Pitt
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2020
Falling
Movie Sarah (45 Yrs)
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2020
The Vote
TV show
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2020
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
Movie Self
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2020
Coronavirus, Explained
TV show Self - Narrator
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2020
The Roads Not Taken
Movie Rita
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tales of the City
TV show Mary Ann Singleton
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2018
Olympia
Movie Self
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2018
Sink Sank Sunk
TV show Mitzi Mills
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2017
Ozark
TV show Wendy Byrde
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2017
The Dinner
Movie Claire Lohman
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2017
Red Nose Day Actually
Movie Sarah (US version)
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2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Movie Self
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2017
Masterpiece
TV show Self - Narrator
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2016
Nocturnal Animals
Movie Anne Sutton
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2016
Sully
Movie Lorrie Sullenberger
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2016
Genius
Movie Louise Saunders
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2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Movie Chief Vincent
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2015
Mr. Holmes
Movie Mrs. Munro
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
The Men in Blazers Show
TV show Self
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2014
BoJack Horseman
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