Laura Linney


Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. A threetime Academy Award nominee and threetime Tony Award nominee, she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris , and had subsequent wins for Frasier and John Adams . From 201013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013. She is also a twotime Golden Globe Award winner.

Linney was born in Manhattan. Her mother, Miriam Anderson Ann Perse , was a nurse who worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and her father, Romulus Zachariah Linney IV , was a wellknown playwright and professor. Linneys paternal greatgreatgrandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney grew up in modest circumstances, living with her mother in a small onebedroom apartment. She has a halfsister, Susan, from her fathers second marriage.

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