Laura Linney

Her father is respected Off-Broadway playwright Romulus Linney.

Has a sister, Susan Linney.

Graduated from Brown University in 1986.

1990 graduate of the Juilliard School.

Was nominated for Broadways 2002 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Elizabeth Proctor in a revival of Arthur Miller s "The Crucible".

Graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. A fellow alumnus, who graduated in 1985, is Kim Raver.

Her mother is a nurse.

She says that she was the worst at reading and writing in her class.

Clint Eastwood picked her for the part of Kate Whitney in his new movie Absolute Power after he saw her performance in Primal Fear .

Gained about 20 pounds for her role in Kinsey , mainly by eating Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.

Has a yellow Labrador dog that she named Eleonora Duse, after the actress Eleonora Duse.

Laura Linney was given the script for The Squid and the Whale by Eric Stoltz , her boyfriend at that time, while they were filming The House of Mirth in 2000. She agreed to do the film immediately, but it took four years to raise the financing.

Won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award, for Best Performance in a Classic Drama, for her performance as Thea Elvsted in "Hedda Gabler".

Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for "Sight Unseen" (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).

The writers Romulus Linney (father of Laura) and Jonathan Baumbach (father of Noah Baumbach , who directed Linney in The Squid and the Whale ), spent time at Yaddo, an artists colony, where they knew each other well enough to have gotten into a car accident together.

Loves Meryl Streep. In The Truman Show , her character was named Meryl and Laura was made up to look like her.

Was at Northwestern University for one year before transferring to Brown University.

Engaged to Marc Schauer in August 2007. She met him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival when he was her festival host that week.

Won a Theatre World Award and received a Drama Desk nomination for her stage performance in "Sight Unseen".

Has played the wife of Gabriel Byrne in three films: Jindabyne , P.S. , and A Simple Twist of Fate .

Was once a teacher for deaf and autistic children.

At age 14, she spent the summer at the New London Barn Playhouse, summer-stock theater in New London, NH, and loved it, sometimes doing 14 hour days.

She was the 2009 commencement speaker at Juillard School in New York City.

Was in attendance at the wedding of Mamie Gummer to Benjamin Walker (16 July 2011).

Attended the wedding of longtime friend Armistead Maupin and Christopher Turner which took place in the garden of the Sausalito, California, home of Amy Tan and husband, Lou DeMattei.

Great-great-granddaughter of U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney (1841-1910), a Representive from North Carolina. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901).

She has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry.

Argentina: Filming The City of Your Final Destination in Argentina, December 2006-January 2007.

(February 2010) New York, New York, USA: On Broadway as "Sarah" in "Time Stands Still," a new play by Donald Margulies , directed by Daniel Sullivan. With Eric Bogosian , Brian dArcy James , and Alicia Silverstone.

(May 2004) New York, New York, USA: Starring on Broadway in the play Sight Unseen at the Biltmore Theater. This is her second time performing in the play. Years ago she was cast in the role of the younger female character.

(May 2013) New York, New York, USA: Spoke at commencement of her alma mater, the Juilliard School in New York City, from which she graduated in 1990. Previously had spoken at the 2009 commencement, at which she was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts degree.

(May 2, 2009) Married for the 2nd time her boyfriend of 5 years Marc Schauer following a 21-month-long engagement.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 49, a son Bennett Armistead Schauer on January 8, 2014. Childs father is her 2nd husband, Marc Schauer.

Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her son Bennett to begin filming Mr. Holmes .

Filmed Mystic River in Boston, US, while filming Love Actually in London, UK. She flew across The Atlantic several times in a short manner of time, in order to complete filming on both movies.

Won both a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her work on "The Big C" , however, not for the same season. Both times she was unable to accept the award in person, due to personal reasons.

Is just 10 years older than Amy Adams , who played her daughter in Nocturnal Animals .

Nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for "The Little Foxes" (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).

Nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for "Time Stands Still" (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).

Counts Bill Condon among her all-time favorite directors with whom she has worked.

Longtime friend of Ian McKellen whom she acquainted through their mutual friend Armistead Maupin.

He was very specific about his script being word perfect.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I,ever thought I would make.

A lifetime of work, particularly where you get to see an actor grow and,change, is better than becoming a rock & roll movie star.

Really, any sense of spirituality, which I do have, really comes from,the arts that are sort of my inspiration.

I guess whatever sense of community, discipline, the laws of truth for,me have come from growing up in an artistic environment with people who,are loving and look out for each other.

Mystic River (2003) is a good movie.

The Truman Show (1998) is a good movie.

Part of her commencement speech at Juillard: Remember that no matter,which art you practice, there is no more valuable skill than the,ability to listen carefully. Especially when you listen to the music,or listen to the text, listen! They will guide you well.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.