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Lin Shaye

Highest Rated:
95% A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Lowest Rated:
6% Hate Crime (2005)
Birthday:
Not Available
Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bio:
Detroit native Lin Shaye studied art history at the University of Michigan before moving to New York to focus on acting. She started landing film and TV roles in the late '70s and early '80s with appearances in movies like The Long Riders, Alone in the Dark, and Brewster's Millions, and began…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 6% - 95%
Number of Movies: 68
Box Office Since 2001: $174.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 32% A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
  • Dody
$0.1M
2011 Take Me Home
  • Actor
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2011 Sedona
  • Actor
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2011 68% Insidious
  • Elise Rainier
$54.0M
2010 Small Town Saturday Night
  • Actor
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2010 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
  • Actor
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2009 Stuntmen
  • Actor
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2009 Red & Blue Marbles
  • Actor
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2009 American Cowslip
  • Lou Anne
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2009 Dark Moon Rising (Wolf Moon)
  • Actor
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2009 Unbeatable Harold
  • Actor
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2009 The Penthouse
  • Actor
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2008 Kush
  • Actor
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2008 Starz Inside: In the Gutter
  • Actor
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2008 Chronic Town
  • Actor
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2007 Killer Pad
  • Actor
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2006 Drop Dead Sexy
  • Actor
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2006 Driftwood
  • Nancy Forrester
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2006 Unbeatable Harold
  • Jeannie
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2006 Down the P.C.H.
  • Wendy O'Hara
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2006 11% Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
  • Actor
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2006 68% Snakes on a Plane
  • Grace
$33.9M
2005 6% Hate Crime
  • Kathleen Slansky
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2005 Confessions of an Action Star
  • Actor
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2004 11% A Cinderella Story
  • Mrs. Wells
$51.4M
2004 15% The Hillside Strangler
  • Actor
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2004 60% The Almost Guys
  • The Boss
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2004 2001 Maniacs
  • Granny Boone
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2003 86% Dead End
  • Laura
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2003 7% Boat Trip
  • Sonja
$8.5M
2003 Man of the Year
  • Actor
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2003 10% Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
  • Margie
$26.1M
2002 Who's Your Daddy
  • Ms. Harding
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2001 Holding Out
  • Actor
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2001 Contagion
  • Laura Crowley
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1999 Attention Shoppers
  • Actor
  • Director
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1999 47% Detroit Rock City
  • Mrs. Bruce
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1998 83% There's Something About Mary
  • Magda
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1996 50% Kingpin
  • Landlady
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1996 Last Man Standing
  • The Madame
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1995 Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (A Feel for Murder)
  • Actor
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1994 35% Corrina, Corrina
  • Repeat Nanny
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1994 79% Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Nurse with Pills
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1994 63% Dumb and Dumber
  • Mrs Nuegeboren
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1994 24% Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  • Rubber Rose Maid
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1993 Amityville - New Generation
  • Nurse Turner
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1993 56% Three of Hearts
  • Operator
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1993 Brain Smasher... A Love Story (The Bouncer and the Lady)
  • Makeup Artist
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1993 13% National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
  • Witness
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1993 30% The Temp
  • Rosemary
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1992 83% Roadside Prophets
  • Celeste
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1991 Book of Love
  • Mrs. Flynn
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1990 78% Pump up the Volume
  • PTA Parent #3
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1988 33% Critters 2 - The Main Course
  • Sal Roos
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1987 20% Slamdance (Slam Dance)
  • Librarian
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1987 Mistress
  • Woman Customer
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1987 77% The Hidden
  • Carol Miller
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1987 63% The Running Man
  • Propaganda Officer
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1987 71% Extreme Prejudice
  • Employment Office Clerk
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1986 57% Critters
  • Sally
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1985 38% Brewster's Millions
  • Journalist at Rally
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1984 Summer Fantasy
  • Woman on Beach
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1984 95% A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Teacher
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1982 71% Alone in the Dark
  • Receptionist at Haven
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1982 Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
  • Nurse
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1980 77% The Long Riders
  • Actor
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1978 90% Goin' South
  • Parasol Lady
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1975 67% Hester Street
  • Whore
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Quotes from Lin Shaye's Characters

    1. Renai: Is there anything we can do to bring Dalton back?
    2. Elise Rainier: There is something we could try.
    3. Elise Rainier: It's a little unorthodox, but i will need your complete trust.
    4. Josh: No, no, I'm sorry this has gone too far.
    5. Renai: Oh, no please. Josh you said that you would give her a chance.
    6. Josh: I have given her another chance, honey. But I can't have somebody come into our home and tell us that the reason our son is in a coma is because, that his soul has floated somewhere into another dimension.
    7. Renai: We bring her all the way here and not even consider what she's saying?
    From Insidious. Submitted by Nick P (6 months ago)
    1. Elise Rainier: A place I like to call, 'the further'.
    From Insidious. Submitted by Laura V (6 months ago)
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