ACTOR
Laura Linney
- Known for
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Mr. Holmes (2015), Absolute Power (1997), Breach (2007)
42 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Laura Linney is an actor best known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Mr. Holmes and Absolute Power.
All facts (42)
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Laura Linney once worked as a teacher of deaf and autistic children.
- #002
Laura Linney shot Mystic River (2003) in Boston, USA, and Love Actually (2003) in London, England. She flew across the Atlantic several times in a short period to complete filming on both movies.
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Laura Linney attended and graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City (1990).
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On 8 January 2014, less than a month before she turned 50, Laura Linney gave birth to her first child, Bennett Armistead Schauer. The child's father is her husband, Marc Schauer.
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For her role in Kinsey (2004), Laura Linney gained about 20 kilos, mainly by eating Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.
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Laura Linney attended and graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1986).
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Laura Linney was nominated for the 2002 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Elizabeth Proctor in the revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible".
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Laura Linney won both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for her work on The Big C (2010), though not for the same season. Both times she was unable to accept the award in person for personal reasons.
- #009
Laura Linney loves Meryl Streep. In The Truman Show (1998), her character was named Meryl and was created to resemble Streep.
- #010
Laura Linney's father is the respected Off-Broadway playwright Romulus Linney.
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Laura Linney is the great-great-granddaughter of Romulus Zachariah Linney (1841-1910), a North Carolina representative and US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth Congresses (4 March 1895-3 March 1901).
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At the age of 14, Laura Linney spent a summer at the New London Barn Playhouse, a summer theatre in New London, NH, and enjoyed it, sometimes working 14 hours a day.
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On 2 May 2009, Laura Linney married for the second time, to her boyfriend of five years, Marc Schauer, after a 21-month engagement.
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Laura Linney says she was the worst student in her class at reading and writing.
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Before transferring to Brown University, Laura Linney studied for a year at Northwestern University.
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Laura Linney has a yellow Labrador dog named Eleonora Duse, inspired by the actress Eleonora Duse.
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Laura Linney became engaged to Marc Schauer in August 2007. She met him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival, during the week when she was the festival's host.
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Laura Linney has been a longtime friend of Sir Ian McKellen, whom she met through their mutual friend Armistead Maupin.
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Laura Linney played Gabriel Byrne's wife in three films: Jindabyne (2006), P. S. (2004) and A Simple Twist of Fate (1994).
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In addition to English, Laura Linney is of Irish, Scottish and German descent.
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On July 25, 2022, Laura Linney was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Television category at 6533 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Holland Taylor and producer Chris Mundy were guest speakers at the ceremony.
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In Nocturnal Animals (2016), Laura Linney is only 10 years older than Amy Adams, who plays her daughter, even though there is a flashback scene in which Adams's character is supposed to be in college.
- #023
Laura Linney spoke at the commencement of the Juilliard School in New York City in 1990, the year she graduated. She had previously spoken at the 2009 commencement ceremony, where she was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Fine Arts).
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Laura Linney serves on Juilliard's Board of Trustees.
- #025
Laura Linney won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award for Best Performance in Classical Drama for her role as Thea Elvsted in "Hedda Gabler."
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Laura Linney's dream leading man is Irish actor Liam Neeson (they worked together on the film adaptation of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" (2002) and, as of 2022, three feature films).
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Laura Linney worked with Aaron Eckhart on the sitcom Frasier (1993) and on the film Sully (2016).
- #028
Laura Linney is her mother's only child. On her father's side, she has a half-sister named Susan Linney.
- #029
In New York, New York, Laura Linney appeared on Broadway in the play "Sight Unseen" at the Biltmore Theatre. It was her second time appearing in the play; years earlier she had been cast in the role of the young woman.
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Laura Linney is naturally brunette.
- #031
Laura Linney attended and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School (1982). One of her fellow alumni is Kim Raver, who graduated in 1985.
- #032
In New York, New York, Laura Linney appeared on Broadway as "Sarah" in Donald Margulies's new play "Time Stands Still," directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, alongside Eric Bogosian, Brian d'Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone.
- #033
Laura Linney was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for "Sight Unseen" (Best Performance by an Actress in a Play).
- #034
Laura Linney was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for "Time Stands Still" (Best Performance by an Actress in a Play).
- #035
Laura Linney names Bill Condon among her favorite directors of all time that she has worked with.
- #036
Laura Linney's guilty pleasure is Swedish Fish candy.
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On July 16, 2011, Laura Linney attended Mamie Gummer's wedding to Benjamin Walker.
- #038
Laura Linney attended the wedding of her longtime friends Armistead Maupin and Christopher Turner, which took place in the garden of the Sausalito, California, home of Amy Tan and her husband Lou DeMattei.
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Laura Linney considers her second marriage to be the biggest risk she has ever taken.
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Laura Linney's famous childhood crush was Errol Flynn.
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A visit to the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean is on Laura Linney's to-do list.
- #042
Laura Linney appeared in a film nominated for Best Picture: Mystic River (2003), at the Oscars.
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- Man of the Yearas Eleanor Green
- The Nanny Diariesas Mrs. X
- Searching for Bobby Fischeras School Teacher
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowsas Chief Vincent
- You Can Count on Meas Sammy
- Daveas Randi
- Absolute Poweras Kate Whitney
- Kinseyas Clara McMillen
- Breachas Kate Burroughs
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