Lin Shaye

Also Known As: Linda "Lin" Shaye, لین شی

Biography: Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in horror franchises, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, and Insidious. Shaye attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Birthday: October 12, 1943

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

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Known For:

Snakes on a Plane
A Nightmare on Elm Street
There's Something About Mary
Critters 2
Surf School
Critters
2001 Maniacs
Say It Isn't So
Kingpin
Dead End
New Nightmare
Amityville: A New Generation
Hate Crime
Surf School
Detroit Rock City
The Hidden
Last Man Standing
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Who's Your Daddy?
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Frank and Penelope
Trading Favors
Killer by Nature
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Hoboken Hollow
The Temp
Insidious
The Old World
Pines
Next Stop Murder
Contagion
Insidious: Chapter 2
Take Me Home
Carrier
FDR: American Badass!
The Election
Three of Hearts
Farewell Mr. Kringle
Chasing Robert
Sedona
Crazy Kind of Love
Big Ass Spider!
Doggie Heaven
3 Days of Normal
All American Christmas Carol
Insidious: The Red Door
A Letter from My Father
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
Down the P.C.H.
The Signal
We Are Gathered Here Today
Living with Chucky
Without Charlie
Chillerama
Drop Dead Sexy
Summer Fantasy
I Was a Teenage Werebear
Life's an Itch
Rosewood Lane
The Almost Guys
Goin' South
Bachelor Party Vegas
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
Lost Time
Grace
Noobz
Grow House
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Homo Erectus
Brewster's Millions
Insidious: Chapter 3
Remote
Pickin' and Grinnin'
Ouija
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
Tales of Halloween
A Cry for Love
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
Director's Cut
Roadside Prophets
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
The Penthouse
Unbeatable Harold
Boat Trip
Jack Goes Home
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Hester Street
Buster's Mal Heart
Scared to Death
Abattoir
Breakfast with Einstein
Texas Heart
Insidious: The Last Key
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Stuntmen
Attention Shoppers
Stillwatch
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Nature of the Beast
My Demon Lover
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Lucky Stiff
Pledge This!
Asylum
The Black Room
Killer Pad
The Hillside Strangler
Driftwood
Dark Moon Rising
A Cinderella Story
Small Town Saturday Night
Slam Dance
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
All About the Money
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Dumb and Dumber
Wish You Were Dead
The Midnight Man
Chronic Town
The Three Stooges
The Grudge
Project: ALF
Herbert West: Reanimator
Mountain Top
Darkness Falls
The Final Wish
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
Cellular
The Long Riders
Stuck on You
My Sister's Keeper
Corrina, Corrina
Jewtopia
Goldberg - P.I.
Room for Rent
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Gothic Harvest
Waffle Hut
Los Angeles Overnight
Get Gone
Dreamkatcher
The Voices
Confessions of an Action Star
Me, Myself & Irene
American Cowslip
Trial by Fire
Matchmaker Santa
The Running Man
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
Alone in the Dark
Black Limousine
Dead of Nowhere 3D
The Horror Crowd
Before Memory
The Call
Living Out Loud
Ambition
Born Killers
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Pump Up the Volume
Extreme Prejudice
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Sex and the Married Woman
A Secret Space
Why Me?
Mistress
Book of Love
Barely Legal
Critters 3
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
ManFast
Devoted