Laura Linney

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 .

Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

She feels that it was necessary for her art to attend graduate school.

Career

Film

Linney at the Chicago International Film Festival , 2007

Linney appeared in minor roles in a few early 1990s films, includingDavein 1993, before coming to prominence in the public television mini-seriesTales of the City.She was then cast in a series of high-profile thrillers, includingCongo,Primal FearandAbsolute Power. She made her Hollywood breakthrough in 1998 when she played Jim Carrey 's on-screen wife inThe Truman Show, for which she received critical acclaim.

In 2000, Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the lower-budget filmYou Can Count on Me.The same year, she also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget, critically praised filmMazewith Rob Morrow . In 2003, Linney appeared in several notable films, includingMystic River,Love ActuallyandThe Life of David Gale. Her 2004 performance inKinsey, as the title character's wife, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress .

In 2005, Linney starred in horror filmThe Exorcism of Emily Roseand the comedy-dramaThe 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 satireMan of the Year, the comedyDriving Lessons(starring Rupert Grint ofHarry Potterfame), and the Australian dramaJindabyneby Ray Lawrence.Jindabynewas based on Raymond Carver's short novelSo Much Water so Close to Home.

In 2007, Linney appeared in the spy thrillerBreach,The Nanny Diaries, opposite Scarlett Johansson and based on the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,andThe Savages, where Linney starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman .She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film - this time as Academy Award for Best Actress.

Recently, Linney starred inThe Other Man, with Antonio Banderas and Liam Neeson , the latter whom she had starred with inKinseyandLove Actually.

Television

Linney starred as Mary Ann Singleton in the television adaptations of Armistead Maupin 'sTales of the Citybooks (1993, 1998, and 2001). She won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" forWild 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 seriesFrasier.In 2008, Linney won an Emmy Award in the categoryOutstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Moviefor her portrayal of Abigail Adams , wife of the second president of the United States, in the HBO mini-seriesJohn Adams.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 1994, Linney guest-starred in an episode ofLaw & 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 a cancer battle, and the changes it brings to her life and her sense of who she is.

Theater/other

Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere includeHedda Gabler(for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award ),Holiday(based on the 1938 movie starring Katharine Hepburn ), and her Best Actress Tony Award -nominated 2002 role inThe Crucible(where she appeared alongside futureThe Exorcism Of Emily Roseco-star Jennifer Carpenter ). She was nominated again in 2005 forSight Unseen.^{[citation needed]}

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 playLes Liaisons Dangereuses.

In 2010, Linney had a three month run on Broadway in the dramaTime Stands Stillby Donald Margulies . She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. It was announced on May 5, 2010 thatTime Stands Stillwill return to Broadway with most of the cast from the Manhattan Theatre Club run intact.^{[citation needed]}

Laura Linney was parodied on an episode of " Family Guy " (Ocean's Three and a Half): Quagmire wanted to use Carter's money to make a movie. The Cutaway shows Jeff Bridges and Linney starring in 'Danger in Cincinnati' with a voice over by Don LaFontaine .

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 , is a well-known playwright and professor.Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney .Despite her pedigree, Linney grew up living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment in modest circumstances after her parents' divorce.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 , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. Linney then went on to study acting at the Juilliard School .

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