Linda Cardellini
Linda Cardellini
Linda Edna Cardelliniis an American actress and voice actor. She is known for her roles as Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, Samantha Taggart on ER, Velma Dinkley in the live-action Scooby-Doo feature films, Sylvia Rosen, a neighbor of Don Draper's, on the AMC drama series Mad Men, Meg Rayburn on the Netflix original series Bloodline, Cassie in Brokeback Mountain, and Laura Barton in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She is also known for voicing roles in animated projects such as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 June 1975
CityRedwood City, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.
Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.
I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.
I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can become an actor because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.
I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy.
Oh, no, no. In fact, the show is so funny because... last season I had had the flu and I got really skinny and the producers told me to eat. I think it's probably one of the only shows in Hollywood where the producers encourage you to eat as a young woman.
After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'
I think it's going to get back to Sam struggling to raise a child and making ends meet at the same time.
I know, I know. It gets blonder and blonder. It's a sick addiction at this point.
I had the desire to go to Los Angeles, and it's paid off for me. I can't complain.