Laura Linney

Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: February 5
Laura Linney is a three-time Primetime Emmy® Award winning actress who played Jim Carrey’s wife in The Truman Show, “Annabeth Markum” in Mystic River, “Janet Venable” in Primal Fear, and “Samantha ‘Sammy’ Prescott” in You Can Count on Me. She appeared in The Nanny Diaries, Congo, The Squid and the Whale, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Linney is executive producer and “Cathy Jamison” of Showtime’s The Big C. She was “Abigail Adams” in miniseries John Adams, and had roles on More Tales of the City and Frasier. More about the show at the official The Big C site.