Age: 62
female
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible, the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004), Time Stands Still (2010), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2020), and the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–04) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark. Linney is also an established film actress. She made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007). She's also known for her performances in Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River and Love Actually (both 2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Mr. Holmes (2015), Sully and Nocturnal Animals (both 2016).
Laura Linney
Mrs. Dickinson
for Mrs. Dickinson in 100 Days of Sunlight
Suggested by aribookworm301
When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. Struggling to find hope, she’s resistant when her grandparents hire a typist to help her keep writing. Then Weston Ludovico shows up—a boy her age with a bright smile, an easy laugh...and a secret of his own. Weston has no legs, but he insists no one tell Tessa. For once, he wants to be seen for who he is, not what he’s lost. At first, Tessa meets Weston’s kindness with anger, but he refuses to give up on her. With every visit, Weston reaches into her darkness, showing her that losing her sight doesn’t mean losing everything. As they grow closer, Tessa discovers new ways to experience life—and new reasons to hope. But as the day her sight returns draws near, Weston faces a choice: disappear before Tessa sees the truth, or take a leap of faith and believe she’ll love him just the same.
