People
Lin Shaye
- Name: Lin Shaye
- Birthday: 1943-10-12
- Also known as: Linda "Lin" Shaye
- Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Popularity: 6.805
Biography:
Lin attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway. She has studied with some of the finest: Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Lin is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. She is also the younger sister of producer Robert Shaye.
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Scared to Death as Max | 2024-08-11 |
| Insidious: The Red Door as Elise Rainier | 2023-07-05 |
| Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self | 2022-10-07 |
| Remote as Kane | 2022-10-01 |
| We Are Gathered Here Today as Jean Cole | 2022-08-16 |
| Living with Chucky as Self | 2022-08-13 |
| Frank and Penelope as Ophelia | 2022-06-03 |
| Pines as Julie (voice) | 2022-02-04 |
| Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman as Mrs. Bundy | 2021-08-16 |
| The Call as Edith Cranston | 2020-10-23 |
| The Horror Crowd as Herself | 2020-08-29 |
| Max Reload and the Nether Blasters as Mrs. Wylder | 2020-08-11 |
| The Voices as The Vagabond | 2020-07-03 |
| Dreamkatcher as Ruth | 2020-06-24 |
| Darkness Falls as Angela Anderson | 2020-03-07 |
| The Grudge as Faith Matheson | 2019-12-31 |
| Gothic Harvest as Griselda | 2019-10-15 |
| Ambition as Lady Bum | 2019-09-20 |
| Get Gone as Mama | 2019-07-31 |
| Room for Rent as Joyce | 2019-05-03 |
| The Final Wish as Kate Hammond | 2019-01-24 |
| Herbert West: Reanimator as Meredith | 2018-12-15 |
| They Bite!: The Making of Critters as Self | 2018-11-27 |
| The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 as Self | 2018-11-27 |
| Los Angeles Overnight as Cousins | 2018-03-20 |
| Insidious: The Last Key as Élise Rainier | 2018-01-03 |
| All About the Money as Mrs. Womack | 2017-06-02 |
| Buster's Mal Heart as Pauline | 2017-05-28 |
| The Black Room as Miss Black | 2017-04-28 |
| Grow House as Mrs. Gilliam | 2017-04-20 |
| Mountain Top as Muriel Miller | 2017-02-10 |
| Abattoir as Allie | 2016-11-24 |
| Ouija: Origin of Evil as Old Paulina Zander | 2016-10-20 |
| The Midnight Man as Anna | 2016-09-30 |
| Director's Cut as Captain Wheeler | 2016-07-19 |
| Texas Heart as Mrs. Smith | 2016-05-20 |
| Jack Goes Home as Teresa | 2016-03-14 |
| Tales of Halloween as Lynn's Mother | 2015-10-16 |
| Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves as Helen Keller | 2015-10-01 |
| Insidious: Chapter 3 as Elise Rainier | 2015-05-28 |
| Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha as The Grand Lady | 2015-01-07 |
| Grace as Helen | 2014-10-28 |
| Ouija as Paulina Zander | 2014-10-24 |
| Lost Time as Mysterious Woman | 2014-09-19 |
| The Signal as Mirabelle | 2014-03-15 |
| All American Christmas Carol as Barbara Belnap | 2013-11-05 |
| Big Ass Spider! as Mrs. Jefferson | 2013-10-17 |
| Insidious: Chapter 2 as Elise Rainier | 2013-09-12 |
| Crazy Kind of Love as Denise Mack | 2013-05-31 |
| Noobz as Mrs. Theodore | 2013-01-25 |
| Life's an Itch as Gloria | 2012-12-01 |
| Matchmaker Santa as Debbie | 2012-11-21 |
| FDR: American Badass! as Eleanor Roosevelt | 2012-09-24 |
| 3 Days of Normal as May | 2012-06-02 |
| Jewtopia as Dr. Sutton | 2012-04-26 |
| The Three Stooges as Nurse Crotchet | 2012-04-13 |
| Waffle Hut as Jerrie Wolf | 2012-01-01 |
| Rosewood Lane as Mrs. Hawthorne | 2011-10-15 |
| Chillerama as Baglady / Nurse Maleva | 2011-10-14 |
| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as Dody | 2011-09-02 |
| I Was a Teenage Werebear | 2011-09-01 |
| Insidious as Elise Rainier | 2011-03-31 |
| Take Me Home as Jill | 2011-03-02 |
| Sedona as Claire | 2011-02-19 |
| Goldberg - P.I. as Violet | 2011-01-01 |
| Farewell Mr. Kringle as Zelda | 2010-12-04 |
| Black Limousine | 2010-10-19 |
| Next Stop Murder as Detective Reeson | 2010-09-19 |
| 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams as Granny Boone | 2010-07-20 |
| Small Town Saturday Night as Phyllis Ryan | 2010-05-31 |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self | 2010-05-04 |
| Pickin' and Grinnin' as Bonnie Johnson | 2010-04-17 |
| The Penthouse as Frances | 2010-03-02 |
| Killer by Nature as Leona | 2010-01-01 |
| VideoDome Rent-O-Rama as The Lush | 2010-01-01 |
| Dark Moon Rising as Sunny | 2009-10-10 |
| Stuntmen as Bumble Jackson | 2009-08-18 |
| American Cowslip as Lou Anne | 2009-07-24 |
| My Sister's Keeper as Nurse Adele | 2009-06-26 |
| Doggie Heaven as Woman | 2008-11-24 |
| Starz Inside: In the Gutter as Self | 2008-07-29 |
| Chronic Town as Nurse | 2008-04-03 |
| Asylum as String's Mother | 2008-03-20 |
| Killer Pad as Marge | 2008-02-05 |
| Chasing Robert as Martha the Bookie | 2007-07-17 |
| The Election as The Wife | 2007-07-12 |
| Homo Erectus as Museum Guide | 2007-07-10 |
| Pledge This! as Miss Prin | 2006-12-01 |
| Driftwood as Nancy Forrester | 2006-10-20 |
| Surf School as Larry's mom | 2006-09-01 |
| Surf School as Larry's Mom | 2006-09-01 |
| Down the P.C.H. as Wendy O'Hara | 2006-09-01 |
| Snakes on a Plane as Grace | 2006-08-17 |
| Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror as Clara | 2006-06-27 |
| Bachelor Party Vegas as Cassandra | 2006-04-25 |
| Hoboken Hollow as Mrs. Brodrick | 2006-01-04 |
| Unbeatable Harold as Jeannie | 2006-01-01 |
| 2001 Maniacs as Granny Boone | 2005-05-12 |
| Drop Dead Sexy as Ma Muzzy | 2005-03-12 |
| Confessions of an Action Star as Samantha Jones | 2005-01-23 |
| Hate Crime as Kathleen Slansky | 2005-01-14 |
| Born Killers as Willow | 2005-01-01 |
| The Hillside Strangler as Jenny Buono | 2004-11-12 |
| Cellular as Exotic Car Driver | 2004-09-06 |
| A Cinderella Story as Mrs. Wells | 2004-07-16 |
| The Almost Guys as Repo Boss | 2004-03-03 |
| Who's Your Daddy? as Ms. Harding | 2004-01-07 |
| Dead End as Laura Harrington | 2003-12-12 |
| Stuck on You as Makeup Babe | 2003-12-10 |
| Barely Legal as Tequlia | 2003-05-15 |
| Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd as Margie | 2003-04-14 |
| Boat Trip as Sonya the Coach | 2002-10-01 |
| Wish You Were Dead as Jinny Macintosh | 2002-05-21 |
| Contagion as Laura Crowley | 2002-05-15 |
| A Letter from My Father as Elise | 2001-10-18 |
| Say It Isn't So as Nurse Bautista | 2001-03-10 |
| Without Charlie | 2001-01-01 |
| Attention Shoppers as Libby | 2000-09-21 |
| Me, Myself & Irene as Mrs. Caleron | 2000-06-22 |
| Detroit Rock City as Mrs. Bruce | 1999-08-13 |
| Living Out Loud as Lisa's Nurse | 1998-10-30 |
| There's Something About Mary as Magda | 1998-07-15 |
| Breakfast with Einstein as Miss Desmond | 1998-05-24 |
| Trading Favors as Darla | 1997-06-04 |
| Last Man Standing as The Madame | 1996-09-20 |
| Kingpin as Landlady | 1996-07-04 |
| Project: ALF as Waitress | 1996-02-17 |
| Nature of the Beast as Carol Powell | 1995-10-23 |
| Trial by Fire as Phyliis Cardell | 1995-10-01 |
| Sketch Artist II: Hands That See as Bonnie | 1995-01-28 |
| Dumb and Dumber as Mrs. Neugeboren | 1994-12-16 |
| Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter as Inmate | 1994-10-14 |
| New Nightmare as Nurse with Pills | 1994-10-13 |
| Corrina, Corrina as Repeat Nanny | 1994-08-12 |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as Rubber Rose Maid | 1994-05-13 |
| In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance as Foreman #2 | 1994-01-23 |
| Brain Smasher... A Love Story as Make up Artist | 1993-11-17 |
| Amityville: A New Generation as Nurse Turner | 1993-09-29 |
| Three of Hearts as Operator | 1993-04-30 |
| The Temp as Rosemary | 1993-02-12 |
| National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Witness | 1993-02-04 |
| Roadside Prophets as Celeste | 1992-03-27 |
| Critters 3 as Sal (archive footage) | 1991-12-11 |
| Pump Up the Volume as PTA Parent #3 | 1990-08-22 |
| Book of Love as Mrs. Flynn | 1990-08-03 |
| Lucky Stiff as Bratty Kid's Mom | 1988-11-01 |
| Critters 2 as Sally | 1988-04-29 |
| The Running Man as Propaganda Officer | 1987-11-13 |
| The Hidden as Carol Miller | 1987-10-30 |
| Mistress as Woman Customer | 1987-10-04 |
| Slam Dance as Librarian | 1987-10-02 |
| Extreme Prejudice as Employment Office Clerk | 1987-04-24 |
| My Demon Lover as Anemic Counter Girl | 1987-04-24 |
| Stillwatch | 1987-02-10 |
| Critters as Sally | 1986-04-11 |
| Brewster's Millions as Journalist at Rally | 1985-05-22 |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street as Teacher | 1984-10-31 |
| Summer Fantasy as Woman on Beach | 1984-05-25 |
| Why Me? | 1984-03-12 |
| Alone in the Dark as Receptionist at Haven | 1982-11-12 |
| Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again as Nurse with Telegram | 1982-11-10 |
| A Cry for Love | 1980-10-20 |
| The Long Riders as Kate | 1980-05-16 |
| The Seeding of Sarah Burns as 2nd Nurse | 1979-04-07 |
| The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal as Freida | 1979-01-30 |
| Goin' South as Parasol Lady | 1978-10-06 |
| A Secret Space as Amy | 1977-12-04 |
| Sex and the Married Woman as Sandra | 1977-09-13 |
| Hester Street as Whore | 1975-10-19 |
