laura linney

Linney at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Born Laura Leggett Linney

February 5, 1964 (1964-02-05) (age 44)

New York City, New York Years active 1992–present Spouse(s) David Adkins (1995–2000) [show]Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie

2002 Wild Iris

2008 John Adams

Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series

2004 Frasier Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Film

2008 John Adams Other awards NYFCC Award for Best Actress

2000 You Can Count on Me

NSFC Award for Best Actress

2000 You Can Count on Me

NBR Award for Best Supporting Actress

2004 Kinsey

Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress

2006 The Squid and the Whale

Laura Leggett Linney[1][2] (born February 5, 1964) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, a BAFTA-nominated, a Golden Globe-winning and a three-time Emmy Award-winning American actress, active in movies, television, and theatre. Contents [hide] 1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 Film 2.2 Television 2.3 Theatre/other 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links //

Personal life

Linney was born in New York City. Her mother, 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.[2][3] Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.[4] 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 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. After attending Brown, Linney went on to study acting at the Juilliard School.

Linney married David Adkins in 1995. They divorced in 2000. As of 2007[update], she was engaged to Marc Schauer, a real estate agent in Telluride, Colorado.[5]

Career

Film Linney at the Chicago International Film Festival, 2007

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. 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 was cast as Jim Carrey's wife in The Truman Show, for which she received much critical acclaim.

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. That 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.

In 2005, Linney starred