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 (2003β04) 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).
as Ruth Comfort
as Emma Dretzin
as Lianna(3 eps)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Kristen Forrest Bean(8 eps)
as Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)(5 eps)
as Regina O'Connor
as Kristine
as Chrissie Ahearn
as Self(2 eps)
as Self
as Self
as Self(1 ep)
as Hannah Pitt
as Sarah (45 Yrs)
as Self - Narrator(1 ep)
as Rita
as Self(1 ep)
as Mary Ann Singleton(10 eps)
as Self
as Mitzi Mills(3 eps)
as Wendy Byrde(44 eps)
as Claire Lohman
as Sarah (US version)
as Self - Narrator(149 eps)
as Anne Sutton
as Lorrie Sullenberger
as Louise Saunders
as Chief Vincent
as Mrs. Munro
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Laura Linney (voice)(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Sarah Shaw
as Doctor Goodman
as Self - Letter Reader
as Daisy
as Lila
as Self(2 eps)
as North Pole Computer (voice)
as Cathy Jamison(40 eps)
as Nina Hogue
as Self - Guest(7 eps)
as Caroline Gund
as Lisa
as Abigail Adams(7 eps)
as Wendy Savage
as Mrs. X
as Jesse
as Self(3 eps)
as Kate Burroughs
as Eleanor Green
as Self - Guest(2 eps)
as Laura Marshall
as Claire
as Narrator (voice)
as Maria Jacobsen (voice)
as Joan Berkman
as Erin Bruner
as Narrator
as Doctor Gupta (voice)(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Louise Harrington
as Clara McMillen
as Annabeth Markum
as Self(1 ep)
as Sarah
as Constance Hallaway
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Connie Mills
as Sherry Johnson
as Self - voice
as Callie
as Zelda Fitzgerald
as Mary Ann Singleton(4 eps)
as Iris Bravard
as Bertha Dorset
as Lauren Hartman
as Sammy
as Melissa Gardner Cobb
as Rachel Van Dyke
as Hannah Gill
as Mary Ann Singleton(6 eps)
as Meryl
as Self(3 eps)
as Kate Whitney
as Marlene (voice)(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Janet Venable
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Dr. Karen Ross
as Nancy Lambert Newland
as Mary Ann Singleton(5 eps)
as Charlotte Connor(5 eps)
as Mindy (voice)(1 ep)
as School Teacher
as Randi
as Phoebe
as Lily Magraw
as Young Teacher
as Martha Bowen(1 ep)
as Narrator (voice)(2 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Mary Ann Singleton(1 ep)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Self(3 eps)