Laura Linney Bio | Wiki
Laura Linney is an American actress. She has received several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Laura has also been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards.
She 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.
Laura Linney Age
Laura was born on February 5, 1964, in Manhattan, New York, United States. She is 58 years old.
Laura Linney Height
She is a woman of tall stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.7 m).
Laura Linney Family
She was born in Manhattan, New York City, to her parents Miriam Anderson “Ann” Perse and Romulus Zachariah Linney IV. Laura’s mother was a nurse at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and her father was a playwright and professor.
She would spend summers with her father in New Hampshire and fell in love with the stage working with the local theatre group beginning at the age of eleven. Laura’s paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. She has a half-sister named Susan from her father’s second marriage.
Laura Linney Husband
Laura was first married to actor David Adkins in 1995. They divorced in 2000. In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer, a drug and alcohol counselor from Telluride, Colorado. On her wedding day in May 2009, actor Liam Neeson walked her down the aisle. On January 8, 2014, Laura gave birth to a son. She was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.
Laura Linney Education
She is a 1982 graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, for which she currently serves as the chair of the Arts Advisory Council. Later, Laura attended Northwestern University before transferring to Brown University, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh and served on the board of Production Workshop, the university’s student theater group.
During her senior year at Brown, she performed in one of her father’s plays as Lady Ada Lovelace in a production of Childe Byron, a drama in which poet Lord Byron mends a taut, distant relationship with his daughter Ada.
Laura graduated from Brown in 1986. She went on to study acting at the Juilliard School as a member of Group 19 (1986–90), which also included Jeanne Tripplehorn. In 2003, she received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Brown. She received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Juilliard when she delivered the school’s commencement address in 2009.
Laura Linney Nominations | Awards | Emmy
Laura has been nominated for and won numerous awards throughout her career in film, television, and stage. She has received three Academy Award nominations for her performances in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me (2000), Bill Condon’s Kinsey (2004), and Tamara Jenkins’ Savages (2007). Laura has also received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River (2003).
She also received seven Golden Globe Award nominations, winning twice, and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards-winning once. She has also received two Independent Spirit Awards. For her work on television, Laura received nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning four awards for her performances in Wild Iris (2002), Frasier (2004), John Adams (2008), and The Big C: Hereafter (2013).
For her work on the Broadway stage, she has earned five nominations for Best Actress in a Play for her performances in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in 2002, Donald Margulies’s Sight Unseen in 2005, and Time Stands Still in 2010, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes in 2017, and Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton in 2020.
Laura Linney Truman Show
She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, praised for playing Jim Carrey’s on-screen wife in Peter Weir’s science-fiction comedy-drama film The Truman Show.
Laura Linney Frasier
In 2004, she had a recurring role in the acclaimed comedy series Frasier as Charlotte, the final love interest of Frasier Crane. Laura won her second Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Also in 2004, she starred in the Broadway production of Sight Unseen at the Biltmore Theatre which ran from May 2004 through July 2004. She earned her second Tony Award nomination for her performance.
Laura Linney Ozark
From 2017 to 2022, Laura appeared in Netflix’s crime drama series Ozark alongside Jason Bateman. She has been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances in both seasons one and two and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for seasons two and three.
Laura Linney Mark Ruffalo
In 2000, Laura starred in Kenneth Lonergan’s film You Can Count on Me alongside Mark Ruffalo and Matthew Broderick. The film was met with highly positive reviews from critics with an approval rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, the consensus reading, “You Can Count on Me may look like it belongs on the small screen, but the movie surprises with its simple yet affecting story.
Laura Linney Net Worth
She earns her wealth from he career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Laura’s estimated net worth is $10 million.
Where Does Laura Linney Live
She currently lives In, Los Angeles, California with her husband Marc Schauer, and her son.