Laura Linney
Laura Linney | |
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 Linney at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival | |
| Born | Laura Leggett Linney February 5, 1964 New York, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Brown University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Television | John Adams The Big C |
| Spouse(s) | David Adkins (1995–2000; divorced) Marc Schauer (2009-present) |
| Parent(s) | Romulus Linney (deceased) Miriam Perse (née Leggett) |
| Relatives | Romulus Zachariah Linney (great-great-grandfather) |
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award. She has also been nominated three times for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.
She received a Golden Globe award for her role in The Big C.
Early life
Linney was born in Manhattan. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and her father, Romulus Linney, was a well-known playwright and professor. He died on January 15, 2011.[1][2][3][4] Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.[5] Despite her pedigree, Linney grew up living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment in modest circumstances, after her parents' divorce.[6] She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then 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 theatre group. Linney graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986 and then went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.[3]
Career
Film
Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, including Dave in 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-series Tales of the City.[3] She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998, playing Jim Carrey's on-screen wife in The Truman Show, for which she received critical acclaim.[3]
In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me.[3] The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget, critically praised film Maze with Rob Morrow. 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.[3]
In 2005, Linney starred in horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale; for the latter role, she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy". In 2006, Linney appeared in the political satire Man of the Year, the comedy Driving Lessons (starring Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame), and the Australian drama Jindabyne by Ray Lawrence. Jindabyne was based on Raymond Carver's short novel So Much Water so Close to Home.
In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thriller Breach, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,[7] and The Savages, where Linney starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman.[3] She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film - this time as Academy Award for Best Actress.[8]
In 2008, Linney starred in The Other Man, with Antonio Banderas and Liam Neeson, the latter whom she had starred with in Kinsey and Love Actually.
Television
Linney starred as Mary Ann Singleton in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City books (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" for Wild Iris. In 2004, she won her second 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.[3] In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-series John Adams.[3] She also received a Golden Globe and SAG award for Best Performance by an Actress In a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in 2009 for this role.[citation needed]
In October 1994, Linney guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order (episode "Blue Bamboo") as "Martha Bowen". She played a blonde American singer who successfully claimed "Battered Woman Syndrome" as a defense to the murder of a Japanese businessman.
Laura Linney returned to series television as actress and executive producer in Showtime's half-hour series about cancer, The Big C, which debuted in mid-2010. She stars as a suburban wife and mother who explores the emotional ups and downs of suffering cancer, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is.[9] She won a Golden Globe award for her performance in January 2011.
Theater
Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler, for which she won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award,[10] and Holiday in December 1995 through January 1996 (based on the 1938 movie starring Katharine Hepburn).[11] She received a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her role in the Broadway production of The Crucible in March 2002 through June 2002.[12][13] She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen, in which she appeared on Broadway in May 2004 through July 2004.[14][15]
Linney also appeared on Sandra Boynton's children's CD, Philadelphia Chickens, on which she sings "Please Can I Keep It?", and played La Marquise de Merteuil in a revival of Christopher Hampton's play Les Liaisons Dangereuses.[16]
Linney had a three month run on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, from January 28, 2010 through March 27, 2010. She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. The play returned to Broadway with most of the original cast in September 2010 and closed on January 30, 2011.[17]
Personal life
Linney married David Adkins in 1995; they divorced in 2000. In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer (not to be confused with Michigan Congressman Mark Schauer), a real estate agent from Telluride, Colorado.[18] At her wedding in May 2009, actor Liam Neeson walked her down the aisle, two months after his wife Natasha Richardson's death.[19]
Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.[20]
She feels that it was necessary for her art to attend graduate school.[6]
Filmography
References
- ^ "Laura Linney Biography (1964-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ "Laura Linney Biography - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2009
- ^ Cloninger Boggs, Mary Olivia (1981). The indubitable Busbees and their kin. M.O.C. Boggs. p. 105.
- ^ "The Linney History Page". Gettingstartedwithlatin.com. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ a b Studio 360 broadcast, 28 March 2010
- ^ "Linney Opens The Nanny Diaries". Cinemablend.com. 2006-03-14. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ "Philip Seymour Hoffman's Next is The Savages". Comingsoon.net. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ Bryant, Adam (2009-08-27). "Showtime and Laura Linney to Tackle Cancer in New Series". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
- ^ .asp "The Joe A. Callaway Award List" actorsequity.org, accessed January 31, 2011
- ^ Canby, Vincent."Theater Review:The Wee Problems Of the Seriously Rich In the Frenzied 20's"New York Times, December 4, 1995
- ^ Brantley, Ben."Theater Review:Two Against Mob Rule Who Can Turn Up the Heat"New York Times, March 8, 2002
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin."'Millie' Leads the Tony Nominations With 11; 'Morning's' Earns 9"New York Times, May 7, 2002
- ^ Gans, Andrew; Allen, Morgan; Simonson, Robert."2004-2005 Tony Nominations Announced; Spamalot Garners 14 Nominations" playbill.com, May 10, 2005
- ^ Brantley."Theater Review:A Fragile Victim of Love Long Past"New York Times, May 26, 2004
- ^ Smith, Liz (2008-03-13). "Watch the hot actress thrive!". Nypost.com. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Broadway's 'Time Stands Still', Acclaimed Drama About War Scars, Closes Jan. 30" playbill.com, January 30, 2011
- ^ "Laura Linney Is Engaged". People.com. 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ "Liam Neeson walked Laura Linney down the aisle". nymag.com. 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ HBO.com - We Are One[dead link]
External links
- Laura Linney at IMDb
- Laura Linney at the Internet Broadway Database
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- BlackFilm interview (August 2005)
- Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)
- Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)
- Laura Linney Profile by The New York Times Magazine (July 2010)
- 1964 births
- Actors from New York City
- American film actors
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- Brown University alumni
- Emmy Award winners
- Best Miniseries or Television Movie Actress Golden Globe winners
- Juilliard School alumni
- Living people
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- People from New York City