Laura Linney

Laura Linney earned an Academy Award nomination for her starring role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me (2000). In addition, this role garnered her nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She was awarded Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. She can currently be seen in Mystic River (2003), directed by Clint Eastwood, and the ensemble romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), written and directed by Richard Curtis.

The critically acclaimed film, The Truman Show (1998), directed by Peter Weir, gave Laura a chance to shine brightly as she co-starred opposite Jim Carrey. Her motion picture debut was also her first starring film role - Paramount's jungle action picture, Congo (1995). Linney starred opposite Clint Eastwood in Absolute Power (1997), directed by Eastwood and based on the best-selling novel by David Baldacci. Previously, she teamed up with Richard Gere in Paramount's hit suspense thriller, Primal Fear (1996), directed by Gregory Hoblit. Linney garnered critical acclaim for her role as a tough attorney prosecuting the case of a grisly murder of a priest.

Linney's other screen credits include supporting roles in Edith Wharton's turn-of-the-century novel, The House of Mirth (2000), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Dave (1993), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), A Simple Twist of Fate (1994), The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and The Life of David Gale (2003). Her television appearances include the leading role of Mary Ann Singleton in PBS's award-winning Tales of the City based on the novels by Armistead Maupin and she also reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in More Tales of the City for Showtime. She also starred opposite Joanne Woodward in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Blind Spot and opposite Steven Weber in Love Letters directed by Stanley Donen. She was last seen on the small screen in Showtime's Wild Iris opposite Gena Rowlands, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Linney, a graduate of the Juilliard school and an accomplished theatre actress, was most recently seen on Broadway in Richard Eyre's The Crucible, opposite Liam Neeson, for which she earned a Tony nomination. Her theatre credits also include roles in the Broadway presentations of Six Degrees of Separation; The Seagull; Hedda Gabler, for which she won a 1994 Calloway Award; Phillip Barry's Holiday, a comedy of manners, opposite Tony Goldwyn; John Guare's Landscape of the Body at the Yale Repertory Theatre; Gerald Gutierrez's Honour on Broadway and Sight Unseen, for which she earned a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk nomination.