Laura Linney
Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linneyis an American actress. A three-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Tony Award nominee, she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris, and had subsequent wins for Frasierand John Adams. From 2010–13, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013. She is also a two-time Golden Globe Award winner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 February 1964
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.
Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
And Kathy Bates has taken up directing. So like Rob, she's worked in front of the camera as well as behind it. So the depth of the conversation should be great.
Soon after I'd had my son I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good.I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [ McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.
I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.