Lin Shaye
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-10-12
- Place of birth:
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Insidious: Out of the Further
Scared to Death
1000 Women in Horror
House of Abraham
Common Side Effects
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
Insidious: The Red Door
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Remote
We Are Gathered Here Today
Living with Chucky
The Quarry: Movie Mode
Frank and Penelope
Pines
Behind the Monsters
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
The Call
The Horror Crowd
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
The Voices
Dreamkatcher
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Dead Talk Live
Darkness Falls
The Grudge
Gothic Harvest
Ambition
Get Gone
Room for Rent
The Final Wish
Herbert West: Reanimator
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Los Angeles Overnight
Insidious: The Last Key
All About the Money
Buster's Mal Heart
The Black Room
Grow House
Mountain Top
Abattoir
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Midnight Man
Director's Cut
Texas Heart
Jack Goes Home
Tales of Halloween
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
Insidious: Chapter 3
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Grace
Ouija
Lost Time
The Signal
All American Christmas Carol
Big Ass Spider!
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
Insidious: Chapter 2
Crazy Kind of Love
Noobz
EastSiders
Life's an Itch
Matchmaker Santa
FDR: American Badass!
3 Days of Normal
Jewtopia
The Three Stooges
Waffle Hut
Rosewood Lane
Chillerama
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
I Was a Teenage Werebear
Insidious
Take Me Home
Sedona
Goldberg - P.I.
Farewell Mr. Kringle
The Land of the Astronauts
Next Stop Murder
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
Small Town Saturday Night
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
The Penthouse
Killer by Nature
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
Dark Moon Rising
Stuntmen
American Cowslip
My Sister's Keeper
Doggie Heaven
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Chronic Town
Asylum
Killer Pad
Private Practice
Chasing Robert
The Election
Homo Erectus
Pledge This!
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
Driftwood
Surf School
Down the P.C.H.
Snakes on a Plane
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Bachelor Party Vegas
Hoboken Hollow
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
Unbeatable Harold
Made in Hollywood
My Name Is Earl
2001 Maniacs
Drop Dead Sexy
Confessions of an Action Star
Hate Crime
Born Killers
The Hillside Strangler
Cellular
A Cinderella Story
The Almost Guys
Who's Your Daddy?
Dead End
Stuck on You
Barely Legal
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
ManFast
Boat Trip
Wish You Were Dead
Contagion
A Letter from My Father
Crossing Jordan
Say It Isn't So
Without Charlie
Attention Shoppers
Me, Myself & Irene
Detroit Rock City
Becker
Living Out Loud
There's Something About Mary
Breakfast with Einstein
Perversions of Science
Trading Favors
Last Man Standing
Arli$$
Kingpin
Project: ALF
Nature of the Beast
Trial by Fire
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
Dumb and Dumber
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
ER
My So-Called Life
Corrina, Corrina
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
Frasier
The Hidden II
Amityville: A New Generation
Three of Hearts
The Temp
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Roadside Prophets
Critters 3
Pump Up the Volume
Book of Love
Life Goes On
Lucky Stiff
Critters 2
The Running Man
The Hidden
Mistress
Slam Dance
My Demon Lover
Extreme Prejudice
Stillwatch
Critters
The Twilight Zone
Brewster's Millions
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Who's the Boss?
Highway to Heaven
Summer Fantasy
Why Me?
Alone in the Dark
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Cagney & Lacey
Falcon Crest
A Cry for Love
The Long Riders
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Goin' South
A Secret Space
Sex and the Married Woman
Eight Is Enough
Hester Street
The Old World
Carrier
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Before Memory
Devoted
The Bench
Jackson's Hole
Mascotland