Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye

Birthday: 1943-10-12

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also known as: Linda "Lin" Shaye, لین شی

imdb_id: nm0005417

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

House of Abraham

Score: 10.0

Pines

Score: 8.0

The Last Stand of Ellen Cole

Score: 8.0

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Score: 7.8

My Sister's Keeper

Score: 7.4

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Score: 7.3

Frank and Penelope

Score: 7.3

Pump Up the Volume

Score: 7.1

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Score: 7.0

The Election

Score: 7.0

Insidious

Score: 6.9

The Hidden

Score: 6.9

Mountain Top

Score: 6.8

Detroit Rock City

Score: 6.7

Corrina, Corrina

Score: 6.7

The Long Riders

Score: 6.7

The Almost Guys

Score: 6.7

Insidious: Chapter 2

Score: 6.7

Dumb and Dumber

Score: 6.6

There's Something About Mary

Score: 6.6

Brewster's Millions

Score: 6.6

Me, Myself & Irene

Score: 6.6

Living with Chucky

Score: 6.6

A Cinderella Story

Score: 6.6

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Score: 6.6

Insidious: The Red Door

Score: 6.6

The Running Man

Score: 6.5

Stillwatch

Score: 6.5

Farewell Mr. Kringle

Score: 6.5

Kingpin

Score: 6.5

Take Me Home

Score: 6.5

Critters

Score: 6.5

Black Limousine

Score: 6.5

New Nightmare

Score: 6.5

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Score: 6.4

Next Stop Murder

Score: 6.4

Cellular

Score: 6.4

Last Man Standing

Score: 6.4

Dead End

Score: 6.4

I Was a Teenage Werebear

Score: 6.3

Room for Rent

Score: 6.3

Insidious: Chapter 3

Score: 6.3

Insidious: The Last Key

Score: 6.3

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

Score: 6.3

Critters 2

Score: 6.2

Hester Street

Score: 6.2

Grow House

Score: 6.2

Extreme Prejudice

Score: 6.2

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Score: 6.1

Buster's Mal Heart

Score: 6.1

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Score: 6.1

The Signal

Score: 6.0

Barely Legal

Score: 6.0

The Horror Crowd

Score: 6.0

Chronic Town

Score: 6.0

Director's Cut

Score: 6.0

We Are Gathered Here Today

Score: 6.0

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

Score: 6.0

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

Score: 5.9

Nature of the Beast

Score: 5.9

Living Out Loud

Score: 5.9

Noobz

Score: 5.9

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Score: 5.9

Goin' South

Score: 5.8

The Three Stooges

Score: 5.8

Alone in the Dark

Score: 5.8

Matchmaker Santa

Score: 5.8

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters

Score: 5.8

The Midnight Man

Score: 5.8

Hate Crime

Score: 5.8

Summer Fantasy

Score: 5.8

Tales of Halloween

Score: 5.7

Project: ALF

Score: 5.7

Chillerama

Score: 5.7

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Score: 5.7

Roadside Prophets

Score: 5.7

Book of Love

Score: 5.6

Big Ass Spider!

Score: 5.6

Sedona

Score: 5.6

Crazy Kind of Love

Score: 5.6

All About the Money

Score: 5.5

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

Score: 5.5

Snakes on a Plane

Score: 5.5

The Call

Score: 5.5

Darkness Falls

Score: 5.4

Why Me?

Score: 5.4

American Cowslip

Score: 5.4

The Voices

Score: 5.4

The Grudge

Score: 5.4

Small Town Saturday Night

Score: 5.4

Trial by Fire

Score: 5.4

2001 Maniacs

Score: 5.4

Stuck on You

Score: 5.3

Critters 3

Score: 5.3

Brain Smasher... A Love Story

Score: 5.3

Boat Trip

Score: 5.3

My Demon Lover

Score: 5.3

Doggie Heaven

Score: 5.2

Ouija

Score: 5.1

FDR: American Badass!

Score: 5.1

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

Score: 5.1

Dreamkatcher

Score: 5.1

Jack Goes Home

Score: 5.1

1000 Women in Horror

Score: 5.0

Born Killers

Score: 5.0

The Final Wish

Score: 5.0

Grace

Score: 4.9

The Hillside Strangler

Score: 4.9

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

Score: 4.9

Who's Your Daddy?

Score: 4.9

Three of Hearts

Score: 4.9

Bachelor Party Vegas

Score: 4.9

Wish You Were Dead

Score: 4.9

Drop Dead Sexy

Score: 4.9

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

Score: 4.8

Slam Dance

Score: 4.8

Ambition

Score: 4.8

Rosewood Lane

Score: 4.8

Say It Isn't So

Score: 4.7

Herbert West: Reanimator

Score: 4.7

Texas Heart

Score: 4.7

Jewtopia

Score: 4.6

The Temp

Score: 4.6

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

Score: 4.5

Abattoir

Score: 4.5

Trading Favors

Score: 4.4

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Score: 4.4

Get Gone

Score: 4.3

3 Days of Normal

Score: 4.3

Lucky Stiff

Score: 4.3

Driftwood

Score: 4.3

All American Christmas Carol

Score: 4.2

Dark Moon Rising

Score: 4.2

Los Angeles Overnight

Score: 4.2

Amityville: A New Generation

Score: 4.2

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Score: 4.1

Confessions of an Action Star

Score: 4.1

Asylum

Score: 4.0

Contagion

Score: 4.0

Killer Pad

Score: 4.0

ManFast

Score: 3.9

Homo Erectus

Score: 3.9

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Score: 3.8

Gothic Harvest

Score: 3.8

The Black Room

Score: 3.8

Mistress

Score: 3.5

The Penthouse

Score: 3.5

Hoboken Hollow

Score: 3.4

Lost Time

Score: 3.4

Killer by Nature

Score: 3.3

Stuntmen

Score: 3.2

Sex and the Married Woman

Score: 3.0

Unbeatable Harold

Score: 3.0

Pledge This!

Score: 2.8

Surf School

Score: 2.7

Surf School

Score: 2.7

Attention Shoppers

Score: 2.5

Down the P.C.H.

Score: 2.5

Breakfast with Einstein

Score: 2.4

Pickin' and Grinnin'

Score: 2.0

Life's an Itch

Score: 2.0

Chasing Robert

Score: 2.0

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue

Score: 1.0

Before Memory

Score: 1.0

Without Charlie

Score: 1.0

The Bench

Score: 0.0

Devoted

Score: 0.0

A Secret Space

Score: 0.0

VideoDome Rent-O-Rama

Score: 0.0

Dead of Nowhere 3D

Score: 0.0

Waffle Hut

Score: 0.0

They Bite!: The Making of Critters

Score: 0.0

Goldberg - P.I.

Score: 0.0

Scared to Death

Score: 0.0

The Possession at Gladstone Manor

Score: 0.0

A Cry for Love

Score: 0.0

Remote

Score: 0.0

The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2

Score: 0.0

A Letter from My Father

Score: 0.0

Carrier

Score: 0.0

The Old World

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Dead Talk Live

Score: 9.0

Common Side Effects

Score: 8.5

ER

Score: 7.8

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

Frasier

Score: 7.7

My Name Is Earl

Score: 7.7

My So-Called Life

Score: 7.6

Private Practice

Score: 7.5

Who's the Boss?

Score: 7.4

Highway to Heaven

Score: 7.4

Crossing Jordan

Score: 7.2

Becker

Score: 7.1

Cagney & Lacey

Score: 7.0

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Score: 6.8

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Score: 6.4

Life Goes On

Score: 6.4

EastSiders

Score: 6.4

Eight Is Enough

Score: 6.0

Behind the Monsters

Score: 5.7

Perversions of Science

Score: 5.6

Falcon Crest

Score: 5.5

Made in Hollywood

Score: 4.7