Laura Linney

Laura Linney
Linney, a presenter at the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, January 2009
Born	Laura Leggett Linney (1964-02-05) February 5, 1964 (age 53) Manhattan, New York City, United States
Education	Brown University (BA 1986), Juilliard School (1990)
Occupation	Actress Singer
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	David Adkins (m. 1995–2000) Marc Schauer (m. 2009)
Children	1
Parent(s)	Romulus Linney (deceased) Miriam Anderson Perse (née Leggett)
Relatives	Romulus Zachariah Linney (great-great-grandfather)

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Tony Award nominee, she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for Frasier (2003–04) and John Adams (2008). From 2010–13, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013. She is also a two-time Golden Globe Award winner.

Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990, before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible and the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004) and Time Stands Still (2010). She made her screen debut in the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil, and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004) and The Savages (2007). Her other films include Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River (2003), Love Actually (2003) and The Squid and the Whale (2005).

Linney was born in Manhattan. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (née Leggett), was a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and her father, Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011), was a well-known playwright and professor. Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney grew up in modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small one-bedroom apartment. She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage.