Laura Linney has a won a Golden Globe for Best Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in HBO's John Adams.
Celebrated for her great dramatic performances in both film and theater (most recently the Broadway revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"), Linney continues to be an actress that surprises.
Laura Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father is the prominent playwright Romulus Linney. Linney's world revolved, in part, around his profession from the earliest age. She graduated from Brown University in 1986 and studied acting at Julliard and the Arts Theatre School in Moscow and, thereafter, embarked on a career on the Broadway stage receiving favorable notices for her work in such plays as "Hedda Gabler" and "Six Degrees of Separation".
Her most recent theatre credits include Daniel Sullivan's production of Sight Unseen at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Sir Richard Eyre's production of The Crucible with Liam Neeson for which she received Tony nominations.
Other credits include Uncle Vanya; Honour; Holiday; Hedda Gabler; The Seagull; Beggars in the House of Plenty and Six Degress of Separation. Television credits include "John Adams"; "Frasier"; "Wild Iris"; Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City," "More Tales of the City," "Further Tales of the City"; and "The Laramie Project" among others. She received Academy Award nominations for her work in The Savages, Kinsey and You Can Count on Me. Other film works include: The Squid and the Whale, Jindabyne, Love Actually, Mystic River, The Nanny Diaries, Breach, Man of the Year, The Hottest State, Driving Lessons, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, P.S.: The Life of David Gale, The Mothman Prophecies, Maze, The House of Mirth, The Truman Show, among others. Upcoming projects include Richard Eyre's The Other Man with Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas and City of Your Final Destination with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Laura was trained at The Julliard School and is a member of Actor's Equity and The Screen Actor's Guild.
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