Laura Linney movies

Her father, Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and her mother, Ann Leggett Perse, is a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; she has a half-sister, Susan, from her fathers second marriage.Linney graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then attended Northwestern University before transferring to Brown University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. After attending Brown University, Linney went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.
Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, before coming to prominence on in the public television mini-series Tales of the City.

She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, including Congo, Primal Fear and Absolute Power. In 2000, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget film You Can Count on Me. 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 characters wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.In 2005, Linney starred in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (a horror movie and courtroom drama), and the very well-reviewed comedy-drama, The Squid and the Whale, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy".Linney recently appeared in the Robin Williams political satire Man of the Year and the spy thriller Breach. She will soon be seen in the comedy Driving Lessons starring Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame, The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,1 and The Savages, where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play siblings.2Her important television roles include "Mary Ann Singleton" in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupins 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.

Laura Linney Movies

All movies starring Laura Linney.

• Absolute Power
• Breach
• City of Your Final Destination
• Dave
• Driving Lessons
• "John Adams"
• Kinsey
• Man of the Year
• Mystic River
• Primal Fear
• The Nanny Diaries
• The Hottest State