Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible, the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004), Time Stands Still (2010), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2020), and the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–04) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark. Linney is also an established film actress. She made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007). She's also known for her performances in Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River and Love Actually (both 2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Mr. Holmes (2015), Sully and Nocturnal Animals (both 2016).
74 movies · 41 shows
Euphoria: A Look Back
2026·3.8
Wildcat
2024·5.6
Suncoast
2024·6.7
The Miracle Club
2023·6.3
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022·7.0
Bonnie
2022·5.3
A Farewell to Ozark
2022·6.7
Determined to Persevere: The Valley Forge Encampment
2020·0.0
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020·10.0
Falling
2020·6.4
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020·0.0
The Roads Not Taken
2020·5.5
Olympia
2018·8.0
The Dinner
2017·4.5
Red Nose Day Actually
2017·7.0
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017·6.3
Nocturnal Animals
2016·7.4
Sully
2016·7.2
Genius
2016·6.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016·6.1
Mr. Holmes
2015·6.5
The Fifth Estate
2013·6.0
Morning
2013·4.3
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013·6.6
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012·5.3
The Details
2012·6.0
Arthur Christmas
2011·6.8
Sympathy for Delicious
2010·5.7
The City of Your Final Destination
2009·5.7
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009·4.6
The Other Man
2008·5.4
The Savages
2007·6.9
The Nanny Diaries
2007·6.4
The Hottest State
2007·5.5
Breach
2007·6.6
Man of the Year
2006·5.9
Driving Lessons
2006·6.1
Jindabyne
2006·5.5
Annie Oakley
2006·6.2
The Armenian Genocide
2006·7.0
The Squid and the Whale
2005·7.0
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005·6.6
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005·7.0
Mary Pickford
2005·7.0
P.S.
2004·5.6
Kinsey
2004·6.6
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004·9.5
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003·10.0
Mystic River
2003·7.7
Love Actually
2003·7.1
The Life of David Gale
2003·7.4
The Mothman Prophecies
2002·6.2
The Laramie Project
2002·6.3
Woodrow Wilson
2002·8.0
Maze
2001·5.8
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2001·5.0
Wild Iris
2001·7.4
The House of Mirth
2000·6.3
Running Mates
2000·5.2
You Can Count on Me
2000·6.9
Love Letters
1999·5.1
Lush
1999·5.0
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998·6.7
The Truman Show
1998·8.2
Absolute Power
1997·6.7
Primal Fear
1996·7.7
Congo
1995·5.6
A Simple Twist of Fate
1994·6.1
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993·7.1
Dave
1993·6.7
Blind Spot
1993·6.2
Class of '61
1993·4.4
Lorenzo's Oil
1992·7.1
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1985·4.0