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Laura Leggett Linney was born on the 5th February 1964, in Manhattan, New York City USA, and is an actress nominated for an Academy Award as the Best Actress three times. Moreover, Linney is the winner of three Emmy Awards as well as two Golden Globe Awards all in the category of the Best Actress. Laura has been active in the entertainment industry since 1990.

How much is the net worth of Laura Linney? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of her wealth is as much as $9 million, as of the data presented in late 2017. Films, television and stage roles are the main sources of Linney net worth.

To begin with, she is the daughter of Miriam Anderson Persia and Romulus Linney, the playwright and professor, as well as the granddaughter of Romulus Zachariah Linney, a Republican Congressman. Despite her ancestry, the girl lived in a small apartment with her mother, who became a student after she divorced. Laura was educated at the private Northfield Mount Hermon School, then attended Northwestern University before changing to Brown University, where she studied drama and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Later, she went on studying at the Juilliard School as a member of Group 19 (1986-1990).

Concerning her professional career, Laura made her debut in the theatre in both classic and contemporary productions, regularly receiving awards for her performances, including three nominations for Tony Awards. She landed a secondary role in the film “Lorenzo” in 1992, however, her breakthrough came with leading roles in the films “Congo” (1995) and “Primal Fear” (1996). Moreover, her performance in the “Truman Show” (1998) directed by Peter Weir gained her international recognition, and a significant rise in her net worth.

In addition, Laura is also known for her lead role as Samantha Prescott in “You Can Count on Me” (2000) by Kenneth Lonergan, which earned her a first nomination for an Academy Award as Best Actress. Meanwhile, she led a successful career on television, as she had her first major role in the miniseries “Tales of the City” (1998 – 2001). In 2002, she won an Emmy Award as the Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her performance in “Wild Iris” (2001), followed by an Emmy for the Best Actress in a Series in “Frasier” (2003 – 2004). In 2004, she was nominated for a second Oscar after starring in the feature film “Kinsey” by Bill Condon, and her third nomination for a prestigious Academy Award the actress received was after portraying Wendy Savage in the film “The Savages” (2007) by Tamara Jenkins. In 2008, her performance of Abigail Adams in the miniseries “John Adams” earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe and a second Emmy Award. In 2010, she played the role of Cathy Jamison in the series “The Big C”, in which she is also credited as an executive producer; this role brought her a Golden Globe Award. Recently, she has starred in the films “Genius” (2016), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” (2016), “Sully” (2016) and “Nocturnal Animals” (2016), so her net worth is still rising.

Finally, in the personal life of the actress, Linney was married to actor David Adkins from 1995 to 2000. In 2009, she married real estate agent Marc Schauer, and in 2014 gave birth to their son.

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Laura Leggett Linney Quotes

• [on working with Peter Weir on The Truman Show (1998)] Peter sparkles, you just want to keep up with him. That film just grows more relevant with every year. When we made it, that idea was unthinkable.
• [excerpt from 2013 commencement speech] I hope you never give anyone the power to tell anyone how you feel about your own work. That is your responsibility alone. Critics are in a different profession than we are. Don’t look to them for your truth.
• I have small feet for someone my height. I’m 5’7″ and my feet are size 7. I fall down a lot, and I think my balance would be better if my feet were an 8.
• 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.
• There are as many bad independent films as there are bad commercial films. I’ve been in some very good commercial films. Mystic River (2003) is a good movie. The Truman Show (1998) is a good movie.
• [About her hair color changing with nearly every role she has.] My mother always gets upset whenever my hair goes dark. She really hates it. And then going from dark to blonde takes a toll. It’s amazing that I have a single strand of hair left on my head! (2007)
• [on doing different kinds of work]: I just want to say, “Go work! It doesn’t matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!”
• 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.
• Really, any sense of spirituality, which I do have, really comes from the arts that are sort of my inspiration.
• [on how she has benefited from receiving Oscar nominations]: It’s helped me to keep working, quite frankly.
• A lifetime of work, particularly where you get to see an actor grow and change, is better than becoming a rock & roll movie star.
• With big, emotional roles it’s very easy, especially if you’ve grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It’s easy to become indulgent. For me, what’s important is the story first.
• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
• People can’t really place me. They’re not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I’m Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I’m Laura Dern.
• When you work and live on a film set for 12, 14 hours a day and moving from location to location, it’s hard just to exist.
• (On making You Can Count on Me (2000)) Kenneth Lonergan and I locked horns. It was about tiny things that would drive me crazy. He was very specific about his script being word perfect.
• [on her fame]: I don’t consider myself a celebrity and I don’t consider myself a star.
• [on her father]: My parents were divorced and I didn’t grow up with him, but I spent a lot of time around him and his influence on me has been profound.
• [on her character in The Truman Show (1998)]: The concept of The Truman Show – it was so much fun. What gave us all an additional challenge was that those of us who were the cast play the actors but playing a role. So we did all this elaborate back-story. So I made up my actress name Hanna Gill, who plays Meryl Burbank, who is married to Truman Burbank. So we did all this double layering of character work not really knowing what was going to come through. I’m glad that some of the people who have seen the movie can say that they can actually see it in all of us. All of us who play the characters surrounding Jim (Jim Carrey) in the film, that they can see the double layer.
• [on her character on The Truman Show (1998)]: Well the thing that was interesting was that we sort of did these back stories about these characters and where they were and what was going on with them. And when the movie picks up, Hanna Gill, who plays Meryl Burbank, is aware of the fact that she is losing her influence over Truman. He’s not happy at home. He’s beginning to get agitated. He’s beginning to think of things outside the house, and she can feel that she is losing her power. So consequently the smile gets bigger and bigger and the desperation, that is why there is that intense undertow to her. Because she knows she is losing it.
• [on Jim Carrey]: He has tremendous charm. He has an enormous heart, just a big big heart. I think that is the thing. I think if you look at his other work you can see that there, which is what makes his characters more than just mimicry. I think that is why his work has hit so hard. Because there is just more there. So with this one, you see more of his humanity.

Laura Leggett Linney Important Facts

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• Won both a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her work on The Big C (2010), however, not for the same season. Both times she was unable to accept the award in person, due to personal reasons.
• Filmed Mystic River (2003) in Boston, US, while filming Love Actually (2003) in London, UK. She flew across The Atlantic several times in a short manner of time, in order to complete filming on both movies.
• Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her son Bennett to begin filming Mr. Holmes (2015).
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 49, a son Bennett Armistead Schauer on January 8, 2014. Child’s father is her 2nd husband, Marc Schauer.
• (May 2, 2009) Married for the 2nd time her boyfriend of 5 years Marc Schauer following a 21-month-long engagement.
• 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 2013]
• 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 2004]
• 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 d’Arcy James, and Alicia Silverstone. [February 2010]
• Argentina: Filming The City of Your Final Destination (2009) in Argentina, December 2006-January 2007. [December 2006]
• She has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry.
• 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).
• 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.
• Was in attendance at the wedding of Mamie Gummer to Benjamin Walker (16 July 2011).
• She was the 2009 commencement speaker at Juillard School in New York City.
• 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.
• Was once a teacher for deaf and autistic children.
• Has played the wife of Gabriel Byrne in three films: Jindabyne (2006), P.S. (2004), and A Simple Twist of Fate (1994).
• Won a Theatre World Award and received a Drama Desk nomination for her stage performance in “Sight Unseen”.
• Engaged to Marc Schauer in August 2007. She met him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival when he was her festival host that week.
• Was at Northwestern University for one year before transferring to Brown University.
• Loves Meryl Streep. In The Truman Show (1998), her character was named Meryl and Laura was made up to look like her.
• The writers Romulus Linney (father of Laura) and Jonathan Baumbach (father of Noah Baumbach, who directed Linney in The Squid and the Whale (2005)), spent time at Yaddo, an artists colony, where they knew each other well enough to have gotten into a car accident together.
• Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for “Sight Unseen” (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play).
• Won the 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award, for Best Performance in a Classic Drama, for her performance as Thea Elvsted in “Hedda Gabler”.
• Laura Linney was given the script for The Squid and the Whale (2005) by Eric Stoltz, her boyfriend at that time, while they were filming The House of Mirth (2000) in 2000. She agreed to do the film immediately, but it took four years to raise the financing.
• Has a yellow Labrador dog that she named Eleonora Duse, after the actress Eleonora Duse.
• Gained about 20 pounds for her role in Kinsey (2004), mainly by eating Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.
• Clint Eastwood picked her for the part of Kate Whitney in his new movie Absolute Power (1997) after he saw her performance in Primal Fear (1996).
• She says that she was the worst at reading and writing in her class.
• Her mother is a nurse.
• Graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. A fellow alumnus, who graduated in 1985, is Kim Raver.
• Was nominated for Broadway’s 2002 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying Elizabeth Proctor in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”.
• 1990 graduate of the Juilliard School.
• Graduated from Brown University in 1986.
• Has a sister, Susan Linney.
• Her father is respected Off-Broadway playwright Romulus Linney.

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