Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of
film,
television, and
theatre. Linney has won three
Emmy Awards, a
Golden Globe, and a
Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the
Academy Award three times and once for the
BAFTA Award.
Personal life
Linney was born in New York City. Her mother, Miriam Anderson "Ann" Perse (
née Leggett), is a nurse who worked at the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and her father,
Romulus Linney, is a well-known playwright and professor.
[Laura Linney Biography (1964-)][Laura Linney Biography - Yahoo! Movies][Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2009] Linney's paternal great-great-grandfather was Republican U.S. Congressman
Romulus Zachariah Linney.
[The Linney History Page] She has a half-sister, Susan, from her father's second marriage. Linney graduated from the
Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1982. She then attended
Northwestern University before transferring to
Brown University, where she studied acting with Jim Barnhill and
John Emigh, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1986. Linney then went on to study acting at the
Juilliard School.
