Lin Shaye movies

Linda Shaye is an American actress born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. She started out playing small roles in several movies, beginning with the Jack Nicholson-directed Western Goin South in 1978.She has since appeared in a large number of character roles. Many were for her brother, Robert Shaye, co-founder and current co-CEO of New Line Cinema, such as her role as Mrs. Flynn in the 1990 film Book of Love, which Robert Shaye directed.Her breakout comedy role was the plum part of shrill Mrs.

Nuegeboren in the Farrelly Brothers Dumb and Dumber (1994). Shaye also appeared in the brothers 1996 comedy Kingpin, and then got a scene-stealing role as Cameron Diazs alarmingly overtanned dog-owning neighbor Magda in their smash 1998 hit Theres Something About Mary. She followed this with another memorable performance in 1999s Detroit Rock City, as an uptight mother waging a personal war against the band Kiss.Shaye has also appeared in four films by director Walter Hill: The Long Riders (1980), Brewsters Millions (1985), Extreme Prejudice (1987) and Last Man Standing (1996). In 2003, she appeared alongside Ray Wise and Alexandra Holden in the cult horror film Dead End as Laura Harrington, and as Jenny Buono, the mother of 1970s Los Angeles serial killer Angelo Buono in The Hillside Strangler. Most recently, she was seen in the thriller Snakes on a Plane.Shaye recently divorced actor Clayton Landey, with whom she appeared in 2002s Wish You Were Dead.Recently she has been featured in a number of shorts directed by contestants on the reality show On the Lot.

Lin Shaye Movies

All movies starring Lin Shaye.

• 2001 Maniacs
• A Cinderella Story
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Bachelor Party Vegas
• Boat Trip
• Confessions of an Action Star
• Detroit Rock City
• Drop Dead Sexy
• Kingpin
• Loaded Weapon 1
• Chronic Town
• Killer by Nature
• Asylum
• Killer Pad
• Surf School