FrameThrower · Actors · Laura Linney
Laura Linney
7 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2000–2020
Born 5 February 1964 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Laura Leggett Linney 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).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2000–2020
- Golden Globe Awards2009
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2013
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2008
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series2004
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2002
- Crystal Award2013
- Theatre World Award1992
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
How their films are shot
Measured across 430 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Laura takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Laura takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 430 frames from Laura Linney's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.