16 thoughts on “WCW: Laura Linney

  1. I agree she’s a brilliant actress – the kind whose acting doesn’t ‘show’. I worked in a boutique cheese shop years ago that celebrities frequented. We employees didn’t acknowledge them as such, but this was the one time I had to speak up and tell her I admired her work. She shyly cocked her head and just said ‘thank you”. (I know, what the hell else is she supposed to say?)

  2. I just love this list!! Sinc3 I finished Amazon and Netflix, I have been looking for new pieces!!! Thank you!! Keep them coming!!

  3. I like House of Mirth and she was very good as the bad woman…and she was bad, in that she was out to hurt and humiliate Lily to serve her own ends.

  4. She is a very talented actress, and she picks great projects. Aside from John Adams being excellent overall, I really admired her willingness to be unglamorous in that role, especially as Abigail Adams aged. Mr. Holmes is a wonderful film, and she was wonderful in it—yet again willing to be unglamorous.

  5. I know it’s 1970s & that’s post-period for us, but I’d have included Tales of the City (I mean, really, you included The Truman Show which is only 1950s-ish ;-). LOVE the series & the books.

    1. I loved House of Mirth and John Adams and she was great in both. Something about her rubs me the wrong way though, I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I first saw her in Man of the Year and Love Actually, both of which were billed as comedies, but weren’t really. Or, at least, her story line in Love Actually wasn’t. There’s something about her expressions that looks… Smug, I guess? Similar expression to Laura Dern.

  6. I’d actually like to see Linney do more villainous roles. She played the gangster’s (Sean Penn) wife in “Mystic River” and was fab–sort of a NorEast Lady Macbeth. Not costume, though, sadly. Meanwhile, Covid Don is gone, science has returned to the White House, I’m full of champagne, and I am happy.

  7. I’ve been fangurling Laura Linney ever since Tales of the City.

    She also has just about the most beautiful head hair in show business, second to only to Connie Britton.

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