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Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in horror franchises, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, and Insidious. Shaye 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1943-10-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Teacher	73
2	1986	Critters	Sally	65
3	1987	The Hidden	Carol Miller	69
4	1988	Critters 2	Sal	63
5	1993	The Temp	Rosemary	46
6	1993	Three of Hearts	Operator	48
7	1993	Amityville: A New Generation	Nurse Turner	42
8	1994	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Rubber Rose Maid	44
9	1994	New Nightmare	Nurse with Pills	64
10	1996	Kingpin	Landlady	65
11	1996	Last Man Standing	The Madame	64
12	1997	Trading Favors	Darla	44
13	1998	There's Something About Mary	Magda	66
14	1999	Detroit Rock City	Mrs. Bruce	67
15	2001	Say It Isn't So	Nurse Bautista	47
16	2002	Contagion	Laura Crowley	40
17	2003	Dead End	Laura Harrington	63
18	2004	Who's Your Daddy?	Ms. Harding	49
19	2005	Hate Crime	Kathleen Slansky	58
20	2005	2001 Maniacs	Granny Boone	54
21	2006	Hoboken Hollow	Mrs. Brodrick	34
22	2006	Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror	Clara	47
23	2006	Snakes on a Plane	Grace	55
24	2006	Surf School	Larry's Mom	27
25	2006	Surf School	Larry's mom	27
26	2007	The Election	The Wife	70
27	2007	Chasing Robert	Martha the Bookie	20
28	2008	Doggie Heaven	Woman	52
29	2010	Killer by Nature	Leona	33
30	2010	2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams	Granny Boone	38
31	2010	Next Stop Murder	Detective Reeson	64
32	2010	Farewell Mr. Kringle	Zelda	65
33	2011	Take Me Home	Jill	65
34	2011	Insidious	Elise Rainier	69
35	2022	Frank and Penelope	Ophelia	73
36		The Old World	The Aunt (voice)	0
37	2011	Sedona	Claire	56
38	2012	3 Days of Normal	May	43
39	2012	FDR: American Badass!	Eleanor Roosevelt	52
40	2013	Crazy Kind of Love	Denise Mack	55
41	2013	Insidious: Chapter 2	Elise Rainier	67
42	2013	Big Ass Spider!	Mrs. Jefferson	56
43	2013	All American Christmas Carol	Barbara Belnap	42
44	2022	Pines	Julie (voice)	80
45		Carrier	Joan Pierson	0
46	1975	Hester Street	Whore	62
47	1978	Goin' South	Parasol Lady	58
48	1979	The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal	Freida	70
49	1979	The Seeding of Sarah Burns	2nd Nurse	60
50	1980	A Cry for Love		0
51	1984	Summer Fantasy	Woman on Beach	58
52	1985	Brewster's Millions	Journalist at Rally	66
53	1992	Roadside Prophets	Celeste	57
54	1994	Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter	Inmate	63
55	2001	Without Charlie		10
56	2001	A Letter from My Father	Elise	0
57	2002	Boat Trip	Sonya the Coach	53
58	2004	The Almost Guys	Repo Boss	67
59	2005	Drop Dead Sexy	Ma Muzzy	49
60	2006	Unbeatable Harold	Jeannie	30
61	2006	Bachelor Party Vegas	Cassandra	49
62	2006	Down the P.C.H.	Wendy O'Hara	25
63	2007	Homo Erectus	Museum Guide	39
64	2010	The Penthouse	Frances	35
65	2010	Pickin' and Grinnin'	Bonnie Johnson	20
66	2011	I Was a Teenage Werebear		63
67	2011	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy	Dody	59
68	2011	Chillerama	Baglady / Nurse Maleva	57
69	2011	Rosewood Lane	Mrs. Hawthorne	48
70	2012	Life's an Itch	Gloria	20
71	2013	Noobz	Mrs. Theodore	59
72	2014	The Signal	Mirabelle	60
73	2014	Lost Time	Mysterious Woman	34
74	2014	Ouija	Paulina Zander	51
75	2014	Grace	Helen	49
76	2015	Insidious: Chapter 3	Elise Rainier	63
77	2015	Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves	Helen Keller	51
78	2015	Tales of Halloween	Lynn's Mother	57
79	2016	Jack Goes Home	Teresa	51
80	2016	Director's Cut	Captain Wheeler	61
81	2016	Abattoir	Allie	45
82	2017	Grow House	Mrs. Gilliam	62
83	2017	Buster's Mal Heart	Pauline	61
84	2018	The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2	Self	0
85	2022	Living with Chucky	Self	66
86	2022	We Are Gathered Here Today	Jean Cole	60
87	2022	Remote	Kane	0
88	2023	Insidious: The Red Door	Elise Rainier	66
89		The Possession at Gladstone Manor	Nurse	0
90	1977	Sex and the Married Woman	Sandra	30
91	1977	A Secret Space	Amy	0
92	1980	The Long Riders	Kate	67
93	1982	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again	Nurse with Telegram	49
94	1982	Alone in the Dark	Receptionist at Haven	58
95	1984	Why Me?		54
96	1987	Stillwatch		65
97	1987	My Demon Lover	Anemic Counter Girl	53
98	1987	Extreme Prejudice	Employment Office Clerk	62
99	1987	Slam Dance	Librarian	48
100	1987	Mistress	Woman Customer	35
101	1987	The Running Man	Propaganda Officer	65
102	1988	Lucky Stiff	Bratty Kid's Mom	43
103	1990	Book of Love	Mrs. Flynn	56
104	1990	Pump Up the Volume	PTA Parent #3	71
105	1991	Critters 3	Sal (archive footage)	53
106	1993	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	Witness	61
107	1993	Brain Smasher... A Love Story	Make up Artist	53
108	1994	In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance	Foreman #2	57
109	1994	Corrina, Corrina	Repeat Nanny	67
110	1994	Dumb and Dumber	Mrs. Neugeboren	66
111	1995	Sketch Artist II: Hands That See	Bonnie	59
112	1995	Trial by Fire	Phyliis Cardell	54
113	1995	Nature of the Beast	Carol Powell	59
114	1996	Project: ALF	Waitress	58
115	1998	Breakfast with Einstein	Miss Desmond	24
116	1998	Living Out Loud	Lisa's Nurse	59
117	2000	Me, Myself & Irene	Mrs. Caleron	66
118	2000	Attention Shoppers	Libby	25
119	2002	Wish You Were Dead	Jinny Macintosh	49
120	2003	ManFast	Marge	39
121	2003	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd	Margie	41
122	2003	Barely Legal	Tequlia	60
123	2003	Stuck on You	Makeup Babe	53
124	2004	A Cinderella Story	Mrs. Wells	66
125	2004	Cellular	Exotic Car Driver	64
126	2004	The Hillside Strangler	Jenny Buono	49
127	2005	Born Killers	Willow	50
128	2005	Confessions of an Action Star	Samantha Jones	41
129	2006	Driftwood	Nancy Forrester	43
130	2007	Pledge This!	Miss Prin	28
131	2008	Killer Pad	Marge	41
132	2008	Asylum	String's Mother	40
133	2008	Chronic Town	Nurse	60
134	2008	Starz Inside: In the Gutter	Self	45
135	2009	My Sister's Keeper	Nurse Adele	74
136	2009	American Cowslip	Lou Anne	54
137	2009	Stuntmen	Bumble Jackson	29
138	2009	Dark Moon Rising	Sunny	42
139	2010	VideoDome Rent-O-Rama	The Lush	0
140	2010	Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy	Self	78
141	2010	Small Town Saturday Night	Phyllis Ryan	54
142	2010	Black Limousine		65
143	2011	Goldberg - P.I.	Violet	0
144	2012	Waffle Hut	Jerrie Wolf	0
145	2012	The Three Stooges	Nurse Crotchet	58
146	2012	Jewtopia	Dr. Sutton	47
147	2012	Matchmaker Santa	Debbie	58
148	2015	Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha	The Grand Lady	55
149	2016	Texas Heart	Mrs. Smith	47
150	2016	The Midnight Man	Anna	58
151	2016	Ouija: Origin of Evil	Old Paulina Zander	61
152	2017	Mountain Top	Muriel Miller	71
153	2017	The Black Room	Miss Black	38
154	2017	All About the Money	Mrs. Womack	55
155	2018	Insidious: The Last Key	Elise Rainier	63
156	2018	Los Angeles Overnight	Cousins	42
157	2018	They Bite!: The Making of Critters	Self	0
158	2018	Herbert West: Reanimator	Meredith	47
159	2019	The Final Wish	Kate Hammond	50
160	2019	Room for Rent	Joyce	63
161	2019	Get Gone	Mama	45
162	2019	Ambition	Lady Bum	48
163	2019	Gothic Harvest	Griselda	38
164	2019	The Grudge	Faith Matheson	54
165	2020	Darkness Falls	Angela Anderson	54
166	2020	Dreamkatcher	Ruth	51
167	2020	The Voices	The Vagabond	54
168	2020	Max Reload and the Nether Blasters	Mrs. Wylder	59
169		Dead of Nowhere 3D	Meemaw	0
170	2020	The Horror Crowd	Herself	60
171		Before Memory		10
172	2020	The Call	Edith Cranston	55
173	2021	Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman	Mrs. Bundy	65
174	2022	Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story	Self	61
175	2024	Scared to Death	Max	0
176	2024	The Last Stand of Ellen Cole	Ellen	81
177		Devoted	Aunt Dottie	0
178	2025	House of Abraham		100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Eight Is Enough	Band Member	60
2	1981	Falcon Crest	Smoking Female Prisoner	55
3	1982	Cagney & Lacey	Secretary	69
4	1984	Highway to Heaven	Lila Barnes	74
5	1984	Who's the Boss?	Mrs. Padnick	74
6	1985	The Twilight Zone	Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")	78
7	1989	Life Goes On	Parent #2	64
8	1993	Frasier	Anne	77
9	1994	My So-Called Life	Parent #2	76
10	1994	ER	Margaret	78
11	1997	Perversions of Science	Nurse	56
12	1998	Becker	Mrs. Cooper	72
13	2001	Crossing Jordan	Leather Lauren	72
14	2005	My Name Is Earl	Paul's Mom	77
15	2005	Made in Hollywood	Self	40
16	2007	Private Practice	Mrs. Taylor	75
17	2012	EastSiders	Diane	64
18	2018	Eli Roth's History of Horror	Self	66
19	2020	Dead Talk Live	Self - Guest	90
20	2020	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	Dottie Minter	68
21	2021	Behind the Monsters	Self	57
22	2025	Common Side Effects	Sonia (voice)	85