I love Linney

*troll, and here's the link.

She's only 11 years older than Amy, so you're right, she was too young to play her mother. But that was about the only scene in the entire movie I liked--I loved seeing Linney stretch herself and play someone so different than the nice smart women she usually plays.

She's very comforting to me- in every role- she has that "thing"..

I loved her in

You Can Count On Me (My favorite)

The Savages (2nd)

Kinsey (3rd)

She is great in everything.

Laura should have an Oscar by now and won at least one of her Tony nominations by now.

What other roles could she have been terrific in?

OP-to-Reality translation: You love the fact that she gets to have TV sex with Jason Bateman.

She’ll always be Mary Ann Singleton to me.

Primal Fear. She stole every scene from Richard Gere. Great actress.

She's always good! I loved her in Savages. Anyone remember Savages?

OP - I agree with your use of the world 'confounding' for Nocturnal Animals. After I watched it, I had to research what the hell it meant! Only then did it make sense to me. I wonder how many viewers actually came away with the true meaning of the movie. It was a real stretch for me.

It's hard not to fall in love with her in The Big C, not so hard not to in Ozark. And she inhabits both characters so that you can't look away.

It's funny to me she mostly does TV now--I guess there are better roles for a woman in late middle age on TV now. She is such a fine actress.

She's good friends of a friend of mine who went to Juilliard with her. He says she used to get picked on by the acting teachers because they all said she had "Connecticut clench," like Gloria Upson (she had grown up in NYC and had gone to Brown for her undergrad degree). When i met her (through him), she had rid herself of that. She was very nice and very normal--I was surprised by how normal she was.

I love her as an actress, but I have to say, it's not exactly responsible to get pregnant at 49.

R11. Love it.

Hopefully she'll be able to get her Rose up and running next season.

One of my favourite actresses, perhaps my favourite actress today, period.

Who is her Old Hollywood equivalent?

Margaret Sullavan, Irene Dunne, and Jean Arthur are the first actresses whom I thought of as her Golden Age predecessors.

Myrna Loy

sorry - wrong thread. How the fuck does this happen?

As a college admissions officer who gets super inappropriate with Topher Grace during his introductory interview.

[quote] Who is her Old Hollywood equivalent?

John Hodiak

OP - agreed. She's tremendous. She's so fucking good in Ozark and the previews for the third season seem to indicate that she and Janet McTeer's character may be teaming up to run the whole criminal enterprise. I'm here for it! In the meantime, this may be my second-favorite 'badass' performance of hers.... (starts about 3:15)

She's definitely winning an Emmy for Ozark Season 3. I was incredibly impressed by her performance.

Linney and M are my faves.

I ADORED her in The Savages, & I’m enjoying her immensely on Ozark.

I also loved her in John Adams. Loved that mini-series and I loved her in it!

I saw her on stage here in London and my admiration for her skyrocketed. She is a masterful actor.

Loved her in You Can Count on Me, especially the farewell scene at the end with Mark Ruffalo.

I saw her in The Little Foxes and thought she was a better Regina than Cynthia Nixon.

Linney has chemistry with every actor who plays her relative.

Her brother in Ozark, Ruffalo in You Can Count on Me, Ellen Page in Netflix's Tales of the City...

I saw Nocturnal Animals and immediately thought casting of Linney as Adams' mother was ridiculous. Right after the movie ended I googled her age and Adams' age and they are ten years apart.

Love, Actually

Loved her in the original "Tales of the City."

Hated her in the new "Tales of the City" which was a total abortion.

Family Guy

[quote] She's definitely winning an Emmy for Ozark Season 3. I was incredibly impressed by her performance.

Me too. I love what she's been doing with the character of Wendy over the past couple of seasons. Amazing.

She has a very small but memorable part in “Searching for Bobby Fischer.”

She's a wonderful theater actress. As someone mentioned above, a few years ago she appeared in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. Linney and Cynthia Nixon alternated in the roles of Regina and Birdie. The general consensus was that that Linney was the better Regina and Nixon the better Birdie but they both received excellent reviews in each role.

I don't have a favorite role of hers, but I want to add my voice to those saying they love Laura Linney. I guess the first time I noticed her was in "Love, Actually," and I'll always remember the unique quality she brought to the role, that vulnerability and sadness with a core of deep character. I believe Linney must be highly intelligent and ethical to play it that way. It could have easily been a maudlin throwaway with an actor of less nuance.

This is a great interview. Cynthia Nixon comes off as a little full of herself.

I love her on Masterpiece Theatre!

Which of her Oscar or Tony nominations should she have won?

She used to ride the subway a lot on the UWS when I lived there a few years ago. Super down for earth, normal, and humble. Love her.

Loved her in the Mothman Prophecies with Richard Gere.

You Can Count on Me / the best roles this group ever had / Laura Linney Mark Ruffalo Matthew Broderick

start a thread on this if there ain't one already...

Here's a recent interview with Marc Maron!

Linney describes her friendship with Philip Seymour Hoffman, both as actors and humans. She also speaks about grieving the loss of gay friends who passed away at a very young age due to AIDS.

Bonus appearance from her 6-year-old son.

Love her! She has a knack for nailing her answers in interviews with something revelatory and touching. Smart. Dimples too!

Hate her for having acted with my 3 crushes Hoffman, Ruffalo and Topher. Grrr. Jealous.

She has always - ALWAYS - been very-good-to-great in everything she's ever done. Screw the awards, she doesn't need 'em.

I love her, as I loved Joan Allen before her, who I think she superseded. And maybe Joan Allen superseded Judy Davis. All fine actress cut from the same cloth.

Joan Allen's a fine actress, but she's nowhere nearly as talented or as accomplished as Laura Linney. She was really astonishing in season 3 of Ozark. God damn national treasure.

R44 Dustin Hoffman?

So many great performances.

Top 10

1. Tales Of The City

2. The Truman Show

3. The House Of Mirth

4. The Savages

5. You Can Count On Me

6. The Big C

7. Jindabyne

8. The Nanny Diaries

9. The Mothman Prophecies

10. Primal Fear

Yet to watch John Adams or Ozark

I didn't know she was a redhead! Who else agrees she could have done any one of Julianne Moore's role just as well as her fellow ginger?

She was awful in Mystic River. I’m sorry but it’s true. Her accent alone. Terrible.

R20 Totally unbelievable scene. In real life, his parents would have just paid the admissions officer.

[quote]She was awful in Mystic River. I’m sorry but it’s true. Her accent alone. Terrible.

Linney's solitary BAFTA nomination came for Mystic River. The Academy was right to go for Marsha Gay Hardon instead.

^^ "Gay Hardon" tee hee hee ^^

She was great as the woman Frasier chases to Chicago at the end of the Frasier series.

R48 Philip Seymour Hoffman, the greater actor, not Dustin.

[Quote] Screw the awards, she doesn't need 'em.

Is that you G?

[QUOTE]Yet to watch John Adams or Ozark

R49 - you really need to get on both of those. Hard to imagine both of those performances won't end up in your top 10.

Linney did an early episode of Law & Order and was great .

Wow, a performer who seems to have no "haters" on DL.

I really hated what they did to her hair in Kinsey. It was distractingly bad.

The Mothman Prophecies was terrifying.

I disliked The House of Mirth, which was sadly misdirected but her Bertha was amazing.

Do you think if she had son's she would name one of them Romulus Zacharia V after her great great Congressman grandparent?

Also what does it say about a family that clings to that one home run from centuries ago? It's like a female Kennedy keeping the Kennedy name as a middle name. Desperate and cheap.