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Laura Linney makes 'Time' for Broadway
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Variety - Found Jun. 30, 2009 Laura Linney will topline the Manhattan Theater Club production of Donald Margulies' "Time Stands Still," a staging now bumped up to the org's Laura Linney to Star in 'Time Stands Still' on Broadway - New York Times Explore All |
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Playbill - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney will play the lead role in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of Time Stands Still |
Sturbridge Village Honors Laura Linney
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Hartford Courant - Found Apr. 3, 2009 Actress Laura Linney is being honored by the Old Sturbridge Village living history museum in Massachusetts for her portrayal of Abigail Adams in the |
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Boston Herald - Found Apr. 5, 2009 John Adams star Laura Linney receiving the Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award from the documentary filmmaker at Old Sturbridge Village for her |
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Playbill - Found 13 hours ago City,' has also been adapted into several television miniseries featuring performances by Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Chloe Webb, Marcus D... |
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Broadway World - Found Jul. 3, 2009 ... such shows as Angels in America, ART, Amy's View (Dame Judi Dench), The Crucible (Liam Neeson and Laura Linney), Proof, Doubt, and The Year of... |
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Broadway World - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Laura Linney To Star In MTC's TIME STANDS STILL, Opens 01/28/2010 by BWW News Desk - June 30, 2009 Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura... Law's Hamlet to move to Broadway - BBC Theater for a New Audience Announces Season, With Room for More ... - New York Times Jude Law to play Hamlet on Broadway - Hollywood Reporter Law's Hamlet to move to Broadway - BBC Explore All |
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Quiltfest: home of 'Jubilee's Rambling Rose'
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Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince Casting
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Girl.com.au - Found Jun. 27, 2009 ... and 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.' In 2006, Grint appeared opposite Julie Walters and Laura Linney in Jeremy Brock's acclaimed... Michelle Obama visits 'Harry Potter' set - Chicago Tribune Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - ChannelOne.com Harry Potter to be filmed on Queen's grounds - Yahoo! India Rupert Grint is 'insecure' about acting and girls - Examiner.com Explore All |
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Old Sturbridge Village Extends Contract of CEO through 2012
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Reuters - Found Jun. 25, 2009 ... included the best winter attendance in seven years, and a recent special event honoring actress Laura Linney and documentary filmmaker Ken... Old Sturbridge Village Extends Contract of CEO through 2012 - PR inside Old Sturbridge Village Extends Contract of CEO through 2012 - Forbes.com Old Sturbridge Village Extends Contract of CEO through 2012 - Earthtimes.org Explore All |
Laura Linney Biography
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Laura Linney
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| Laura Linney | |
 Linney at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Laura Leggett Linney February 5, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | David Adkins (1995–2000) |
Laura Leggett Linney12 (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. Throughout her career in film, television, and theatre, Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award.
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Personal life
Linney was born in New York City. 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.2345 Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.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, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. Linney then went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.4
Linney married David Adkins in 1995. They divorced in 2000. In 2007, she became engaged to Marc Schauer, a real estate agent from Telluride, Colorado.7
Linney was a guest and presenter at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.8
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.4 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 when she played Jim Carrey's wife in The Truman Show, for which she received critical acclaim.4
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.4 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.4
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,9 and The Savages, where Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman played siblings.4 She received her third Academy Award nomination for this film - this time as Best Actress.10 Columnist Liz Smith commented in the New York Post that Linney is "very hot, reputation wise", due to her Oscar nomination for The Savages.citation needed
Recently, Linney starred in The Other Man, alongside Antonio Banderas and Liam Neeson, who she had acted alongside in Kinsey.
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 had 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.4 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.4 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.
Theater/other
Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda 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 in The Crucible (where she appeared alongside future The Exorcism Of Emily Rose co-star Jennifer Carpenter). She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen.
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.11
Filmography
References
- ^ Stah-lit express - Laura Linney - Interview | Interview | Find Articles at BNET.com
- ^ a b Laura Linney Biography (1964-)
- ^ Laura Linney Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ 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. pp. 105.
- ^ The Linney History Page
- ^ Laura Linney Is Engaged - Engagements, Laura Linney : People.com
- ^ HBO.com - We Are One
- ^ Linney Opens The Nanny Diaries
- ^ Philip Seymour Hoffman's Next is The Savages
- ^ Watch the hot actress thrive!
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Linney |
- Laura Linney at the Internet Movie Database
- Laura Linney at the Internet Broadway Database
- Laura Linney at TV.com
- BlackFilm interview (August, 2005)
- Combustible Celluloid interview (February 17, 2003)
- Hollywood.com interview (January 3, 2001)
- PlumTV talks to the Lovely Laura Linney (January, 2008)
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