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: 78
Box Office Since 2001: $218.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Big Ass Spider
  • Actor
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2013 Insidious: Chapter 2
  • Elise Rainier
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2013 noobz
  • Mrs. Theodore
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2012 3 Days Of Normal
  • Actor
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2012 7% Losing Control
  • Dolores
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2012 51% The Three Stooges
  • Nurse Crotchet
$44.3M
2012 FDR: American Badass!
  • Actor
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2012 Take Me Home
  • Jill Barrow
$15.4k
2011 Sedona
  • Actor
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2011 66% Insidious
  • Elise Rainier
$54.0M
2011 33% A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
  • Dody
$0.1M
2011 Goldberg P.I.
  • Actor
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2010 Small Town Saturday Night
  • Actor
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2010 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
  • Actor
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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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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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2008 Chronic Town
  • Actor
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2008 Kush
  • Actor
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2008 Starz Inside: In the Gutter
  • Actor
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2007 Killer Pad
  • Actor
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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
2006 Drop Dead Sexy
  • Actor
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2006 Driftwood
  • Nancy Forrester
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2005 Confessions of an Action Star
  • Actor
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2005 6% Hate Crime
  • Kathleen Slansky
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2005 Hoboken Hollow
  • Actor
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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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2004 11% A Cinderella Story
  • Mrs. Wells
$51.4M
2004 Cross Bronx
  • Actor
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2003 Man of the Year
  • Actor
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2003 10% Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
  • Margie
$26.1M
2003 86% Dead End
  • Laura
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2003 7% Boat Trip
  • Sonja
$8.5M
2002 Who's Your Daddy
  • Ms. Harding
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2001 Contagion
  • Laura Crowley
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2001 Holding Out
  • Actor
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1999 47% Detroit Rock City
  • Mrs. Bruce
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1999 Attention Shoppers
  • Director
  • Actor
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1998 83% There's Something About Mary
  • Magda
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1997 63% Dumb and Dumber
  • Mrs Nuegeboren
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1996 Last Man Standing
  • The Madame
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1996 50% Kingpin
  • Landlady
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1995 Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (A Feel for Murder)
  • Actor
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1994 77% Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Nurse with Pills
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1994 22% Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  • Rubber Rose Maid
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1994 35% Corrina, Corrina
  • Repeat Nanny
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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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1993 Amityville - New Generation
  • Nurse Turner
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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 77% The Hidden
  • Carol Miller
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1987 61% The Running Man
  • Propaganda Officer
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1987 71% Extreme Prejudice
  • Employment Office Clerk
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1987 20% Slamdance (Slam Dance)
  • Librarian
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1987 Mistress
  • Woman Customer
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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 95% A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Teacher
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1984 Summer Fantasy
  • Woman on Beach
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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 78% The Long Riders
  • Actor
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1978 77% Goin' South
  • Parasol Lady
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1975 67% Hester Street
  • Whore
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Quotes from Lin Shaye's Characters

    1. Elise Rainier: You're now outside... Let my voice be your guide... Keep a steady stride... Into the further you go...
    From Insidious. Submitted by Zack B (6 months ago)
    1. Laura: Look, I made a drawing of Brad. This was his leg that was hanging out.
    From Dead End. Submitted by Vanessa W (7 months ago)
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