Lin Shaye
Birthday
1943/10/12 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also know as
Linda "Lin" Shaye
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, ...Read more
Acting
(2006) Snakes on a Plane
as Grace
(1984) A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Teacher
(1998) There's Something About Mary
as Magda
(1988) Critters 2
as Sally
(2006) Surf School
as Larry's Mom
(1986) Critters
as Sally
(2005) 2001 Maniacs
as Granny Boone
(2001) Say It Isn't So
as Nurse Bautista
(1996) Kingpin
as Landlady
(2003) Dead End
as Laura Harrington
(1994) New Nightmare
as Nurse with Pills
(1993) Amityville: A New Generation
as Nurse Turner
(2005) Hate Crime
as Kathleen Slansky
(2006) Surf School
as Larry's mom
(1999) Detroit Rock City
as Mrs. Bruce
(1987) The Hidden
as Carol Miller
(1996) Last Man Standing
as The Madame
(1994) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as Rubber Rose Maid
(2004) Who's Your Daddy?
as Ms. Harding
(2010) 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
as Granny Boone
(2022) Frank and Penelope
as Ophelia
(1997) Trading Favors
as Darla
(2010) Killer by Nature
as Leona
(2006) Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
as Clara
(2006) Hoboken Hollow
as Mrs. Brodrick
(1993) The Temp
as Rosemary
(2011) Insidious
as Elise Rainier
The Old World
as The Aunt (voice)
(2022) Pines
as Julie (voice)
(2010) Next Stop Murder
as Detective Reeson
(2002) Contagion
as Laura Crowley
(2013) Insidious: Chapter 2
as Elise Rainier
(2011) Take Me Home
as Jill
Carrier
as Joan Pierson
(2012) FDR: American Badass!
as Eleanor Roosevelt
(2007) The Election
as The Wife
(1993) Three of Hearts
as Operator
(2010) Farewell Mr. Kringle
as Zelda
(2007) Chasing Robert
as Martha the Bookie
(2011) Sedona
as Claire
(2013) Crazy Kind of Love
as Denise Mack
(2013) Big Ass Spider!
as Mrs. Jefferson
(2008) Doggie Heaven
as Woman
(2012) 3 Days of Normal
as May
(2013) All American Christmas Carol
as Barbara Belnap
(2023) Insidious: The Red Door
as Elise Rainier
(2001) A Letter from My Father
as Elise
(1979) The Seeding of Sarah Burns
as 2nd Nurse
(2006) Down the P.C.H.
as Wendy O'Hara
(2014) The Signal
as Mirabelle
(2022) We Are Gathered Here Today
as Jean Cole
(2022) Living with Chucky
as Self
(2001) Without Charlie
as ---
(2011) Chillerama
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
(2005) Drop Dead Sexy
as Ma Muzzy
(1984) Summer Fantasy
as Woman on Beach
(2011) I Was a Teenage Werebear
as ---
(2012) Life's an Itch
as Gloria
(2011) Rosewood Lane
as Mrs. Hawthorne
(2004) The Almost Guys
as Repo Boss
(1978) Goin' South
as Parasol Lady
(2006) Bachelor Party Vegas
as Cassandra
(2018) The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
as Self
(2014) Lost Time
as Mysterious Woman
(2014) Grace
as Helen
(2013) Noobz
as Mrs. Theodore
(2017) Grow House
as Mrs. Gilliam
(1979) The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
as Freida
(2007) Homo Erectus
as Museum Guide
(1985) Brewster's Millions
as Journalist at Rally
(2015) Insidious: Chapter 3
as Elise Rainier
(2022) Remote
as Kane
(2010) Pickin' and Grinnin'
as Bonnie Johnson
(2014) Ouija
as Paulina Zander
(2015) Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
as Helen Keller
(2015) Tales of Halloween
as Lynn's Mother
(1980) A Cry for Love
as ---
(1994) Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Inmate
(2016) Director's Cut
as Captain Wheeler
(1992) Roadside Prophets
as Celeste
(2011) A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
as Dody
(2010) The Penthouse
as Frances
(2006) Unbeatable Harold
as Jeannie
(2002) Boat Trip
as Sonya the Coach
(2016) Jack Goes Home
as Teresa
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
as Nurse
(1975) Hester Street
as Whore
(2017) Buster's Mal Heart
as Pauline
(2024) Scared to Death
as Max
(2016) Abattoir
as Allie
(1998) Breakfast with Einstein
as Miss Desmond
(2016) Texas Heart
as Mrs. Smith
(2018) Insidious: The Last Key
as Élise Rainier
(2003) Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
as Margie
(2009) Stuntmen
as Bumble Jackson
(2000) Attention Shoppers
as Libby
(1987) Stillwatch
as ---
(2016) Ouija: Origin of Evil
as Old Paulina Zander
(1995) Nature of the Beast
as Carol Powell
(1987) My Demon Lover
as Anemic Counter Girl
(1982) Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
as Nurse with Telegram
(1988) Lucky Stiff
as Bratty Kid's Mom
(2006) Pledge This!
as Miss Prin
(2008) Asylum
as String's Mother
(2017) The Black Room
as Miss Black
(2008) Killer Pad
as Marge
(2004) The Hillside Strangler
as Jenny Buono
(2006) Driftwood
as Nancy Forrester
(2009) Dark Moon Rising
as Sunny
(2004) A Cinderella Story
as Mrs. Wells
(2010) Small Town Saturday Night
as Phyllis Ryan
(1987) Slam Dance
as Librarian
(2015) Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
as The Grand Lady
(1995) Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
as Bonnie
(2017) All About the Money
as Mrs. Womack
(1993) National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Witness
(1994) Dumb and Dumber
as Mrs. Neugeboren
(2002) Wish You Were Dead
as Jinny Macintosh
(2016) The Midnight Man
as Anna
(2008) Chronic Town
as Nurse
(2012) The Three Stooges
as Nurse Crotchet
(2019) The Grudge
as Faith Matheson
(1996) Project: ALF
as Waitress
(2018) Herbert West: Reanimator
as Meredith
(2017) Mountain Top
as Muriel Miller
(2020) Darkness Falls
as Angela Anderson
(2019) The Final Wish
as Kate Hammond
(1994) In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
as Foreman #2
(2004) Cellular
as Exotic Car Driver
(1980) The Long Riders
as Kate
(2003) Stuck on You
as Makeup Babe
(2009) My Sister's Keeper
as Nurse Adele
(1994) Corrina, Corrina
as Repeat Nanny
(2012) Jewtopia
as Dr. Sutton
(2011) Goldberg - P.I.
as Violet
(2019) Room for Rent
as Joyce
(2018) They Bite!: The Making of Critters
as Self
(2008) Starz Inside: In the Gutter
as Self
(2019) Gothic Harvest
as Griselda
(2012) Waffle Hut
as Jerrie Wolf
(2018) Los Angeles Overnight
as Cousins
(2019) Get Gone
as Mama
(2020) Dreamkatcher
as Ruth
(2020) The Voices
as The Vagabond
(2005) Confessions of an Action Star
as Samantha Jones
(2000) Me, Myself & Irene
as Mrs. Caleron
(2009) American Cowslip
as Lou Anne
(1995) Trial by Fire
as Phyliis Cardell
(2012) Matchmaker Santa
as Debbie
(1987) The Running Man
as Propaganda Officer
(2020) Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
as Mrs. Wylder
(1982) Alone in the Dark
as Receptionist at Haven
(2010) Black Limousine
as ---
Dead of Nowhere 3D
as Meemaw
(2020) The Horror Crowd
as Herself
Before Memory
as ---
(2020) The Call
as Edith Cranston
(1998) Living Out Loud
as Lisa's Nurse
(2019) Ambition
as Lady Bum
(2005) Born Killers
as Willow
(2022) Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
(1990) Pump Up the Volume
as PTA Parent #3
(1987) Extreme Prejudice
as Employment Office Clerk
(2010) VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
as The Lush
(1993) Brain Smasher... A Love Story
as Make up Artist
(2021) Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
as Mrs. Bundy
(2010) Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
(1977) Sex and the Married Woman
as Sandra
(1977) A Secret Space
as Amy
(1984) Why Me?
as ---
(1987) Mistress
as Woman Customer
(1990) Book of Love
as Mrs. Flynn
(2003) Barely Legal
as Tequlia
(1991) Critters 3
as Sal (archive footage)
(2024) The Last Stand of Ellen Cole 2024
as ---
(2003) ManFast
as Marge
(1997) Perversions of Science
as Nurse
(1984) Who's the Boss?
as Mrs. Padnick
(2005) My Name Is Earl
as Paul's Mom
(1984) Highway to Heaven
as Lila Barnes
(1993) Frasier
as Anne
(1998) Becker
as Mrs. Cooper
(1994) ER
as Margaret
(2021) Behind the Monsters
as Self
(2012) EastSiders
as Diane
(1994) My So-Called Life
as Parent #2
(2018) Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self
(2020) Dead Talk Live
as Self - Guest
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as Kate Simmons
(1982) Cagney & Lacey
as Secretary
(1981) Falcon Crest
as Smoking Female Prisoner
(2020) Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
as Dottie Minter
(2001) Crossing Jordan
as Leather Lauren
(1977) Eight Is Enough
as Band Member
(1989) Life Goes On
as Parent #2
(2007) Private Practice
as Mrs. Taylor