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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…

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Highest Rated Movies

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	--
2011		Sedona	Actor	--
2011	68%	Insidious	Elise Rainier	$54.0M
2010		Small Town Saturday Night	Actor	--
2010		2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams	Actor	--
2009		Stuntmen	Actor	--
2009		Red & Blue Marbles	Actor	--
2009		American Cowslip	Lou Anne	--
2009		Dark Moon Rising (Wolf Moon)	Actor	--
2009		Unbeatable Harold	Actor	--
2009		The Penthouse	Actor	--
2008		Kush	Actor	--
2008		Starz Inside: In the Gutter	Actor	--
2008		Chronic Town	Actor	--
2007		Killer Pad	Actor	--
2006		Drop Dead Sexy	Actor	--
2006		Driftwood	Nancy Forrester	--
2006		Unbeatable Harold	Jeannie	--
2006		Down the P.C.H.	Wendy O'Hara	--
2006	11%	Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror	Actor	--
2006	68%	Snakes on a Plane	Grace	$33.9M
2005	6%	Hate Crime	Kathleen Slansky	--
2005		Confessions of an Action Star	Actor	--
2004	11%	A Cinderella Story	Mrs. Wells	$51.4M
2004	15%	The Hillside Strangler	Actor	--
2004	60%	The Almost Guys	The Boss	--
2004		2001 Maniacs	Granny Boone	--
2003	86%	Dead End	Laura	--
2003	7%	Boat Trip	Sonja	$8.5M
2003		Man of the Year	Actor	--
2003	10%	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd	Margie	$26.1M
2002		Who's Your Daddy	Ms. Harding	--
2001		Holding Out	Actor	--
2001		Contagion	Laura Crowley	--
1999		Attention Shoppers	Actor Director	--
1999	47%	Detroit Rock City	Mrs. Bruce	--
1998	83%	There's Something About Mary	Magda	--
1996	50%	Kingpin	Landlady	--
1996		Last Man Standing	The Madame	--
1995		Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (A Feel for Murder)	Actor	--
1994	35%	Corrina, Corrina	Repeat Nanny	--
1994	79%	Wes Craven's New Nightmare	Nurse with Pills	--
1994	63%	Dumb and Dumber	Mrs Nuegeboren	--
1994	24%	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Rubber Rose Maid	--
1993		Amityville - New Generation	Nurse Turner	--
1993	56%	Three of Hearts	Operator	--
1993		Brain Smasher... A Love Story (The Bouncer and the Lady)	Makeup Artist	--
1993	13%	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	Witness	--
1993	30%	The Temp	Rosemary	--
1992	83%	Roadside Prophets	Celeste	--
1991		Book of Love	Mrs. Flynn	--
1990	78%	Pump up the Volume	PTA Parent #3	--
1988	33%	Critters 2 - The Main Course	Sal Roos	--
1987	20%	Slamdance (Slam Dance)	Librarian	--
1987		Mistress	Woman Customer	--
1987	77%	The Hidden	Carol Miller	--
1987	63%	The Running Man	Propaganda Officer	--
1987	71%	Extreme Prejudice	Employment Office Clerk	--
1986	57%	Critters	Sally	--
1985	38%	Brewster's Millions	Journalist at Rally	--
1984		Summer Fantasy	Woman on Beach	--
1984	95%	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Teacher	--
1982	71%	Alone in the Dark	Receptionist at Haven	--
1982		Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again	Nurse	--
1980	77%	The Long Riders	Actor	--
1978	90%	Goin' South	Parasol Lady	--
1975	67%	Hester Street	Whore	--

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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)