| Profile | |
| 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) |
| Awards won | |
| Emmy Awards | |
| Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or Movie 2002 Wild Iris 2008 John Adams Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series 2004 Frasier | |
| Other awards | |
| NYFCC Award for Best Actress 2000 You Can Count on Me NBR Award for Best Supporting Actress 2004 Kinsey | |
More about Laura Linney(From Wikipedia)
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. Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Read more...
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. 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 Read more...
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 Read more...

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