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Laura Linney
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Linney earned an Academy Award nomination as well as nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Independent Spirit Award for her starring role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count On Me, opposite Matthew Broderick and Jon Tenney. She was also awarded Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.
Linney, a graduate of the Julliard school and an accomplished theatre actress, was last seen starring on Broadway with Liam Neeson in Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible", for which she received a Tony nomination. Prior to that she was seen in Gerald Gutierrez’s "Honour" opposite Jane Alexander. She won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in "Sight Unseen". Her theatre credits also include roles in the Broadway presentations of Philip Barry’s Holiday opposite Tony Goldwyn, "Six Degrees of Separation", "The Seagull" and "Hedda Gabler", the latter earning her a 1994 Calloway Award. |
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