Lin Shaye
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Perversions of Science
5.625
Who's the Boss?
7.406
My Name Is Earl
7.662
Highway to Heaven
7.357
Frasier
7.681
Becker
7.124
ER
7.824
Behind the Monsters
5.7
EastSiders
6.4
My So-Called Life
7.646
Eli Roth's History of Horror
6.6
Dead Talk Live
9
The Twilight Zone
7.748
Falcon Crest
5.538
Cagney & Lacey
7
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
6.776
Crossing Jordan
7.2
Eight Is Enough
6
Life Goes On
6.385
Private Practice
7.53
Made in Hollywood
4.667
Common Side Effects
8.5
Movies
Snakes on a Plane
5.471
A Nightmare on Elm Street
7.337
There's Something About Mary
6.617
Critters 2
6.2
Surf School
2.691
Critters
6.463
2001 Maniacs
5.359
Say It Isn't So
4.7
Kingpin
6.504
Dead End
6.4
New Nightmare
6.455
Amityville: A New Generation
4.183
Hate Crime
5.788
Surf School
2.691
The Hidden
6.9
Detroit Rock City
6.739
Last Man Standing
6.363
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4.392
Who's Your Daddy?
4.923
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
3.824
Frank and Penelope
7.362
Trading Favors
4.444
Killer by Nature
3.286
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
4.7
Hoboken Hollow
3.421
The Temp
4.6
Insidious
6.944
The Old World
0
Pines
8
Next Stop Murder
6.4
Contagion
4
Insidious: Chapter 2
6.677
Take Me Home
6.5
Carrier
0
FDR: American Badass!
5.186
The Election
7
Three of Hearts
4.8
Farewell Mr. Kringle
6.5
Chasing Robert
2
Sedona
5.6
Crazy Kind of Love
5.5
Big Ass Spider!
5.6
Doggie Heaven
5.2
3 Days of Normal
4.313
All American Christmas Carol
4.229
Insidious: The Red Door
6.57
A Letter from My Father
0
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
6
Down the P.C.H.
2.5
The Signal
6.012
We Are Gathered Here Today
6
Living with Chucky
6.6
Without Charlie
1
Chillerama
5.7
Drop Dead Sexy
4.9
Summer Fantasy
5.75
I Was a Teenage Werebear
6.3
Life's an Itch
2
Rosewood Lane
4.75
Goin' South
5.833
The Almost Guys
6.7
Bachelor Party Vegas
4.875
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
0
Lost Time
3.4
Grace
4.932
Noobz
5.894
Grow House
6.2
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
7
Homo Erectus
3.9
Brewster's Millions
6.6
Insidious: Chapter 3
6.281
Remote
0
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2
Ouija
5.146
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
5.118
Tales of Halloween
5.7
A Cry for Love
0
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
6.25
Director's Cut
6.05
Roadside Prophets
5.66
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
5.858
The Penthouse
3.452
Unbeatable Harold
3
Boat Trip
5.304
Jack Goes Home
5.1
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
0
Hester Street
6.217
Buster's Mal Heart
6.131
Scared to Death
0
Abattoir
4.5
Breakfast with Einstein
2.4
Texas Heart
4.667
Insidious: The Last Key
6.25
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
4.148
Stuntmen
3.214
Attention Shoppers
2.5
Stillwatch
6.5
Ouija: Origin of Evil
6.14
Lucky Stiff
4.3
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
4.9
My Demon Lover
5.29
Nature of the Beast
5.918
Pledge This!
2.803
Killer Pad
4.056
The Hillside Strangler
4.9
Driftwood
4.278
Asylum
4
Dark Moon Rising
4.226
The Black Room
3.8
A Cinderella Story
6.6
Small Town Saturday Night
5.4
Slam Dance
4.813
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
5.467
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
5.921
All About the Money
5.543
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
6.051
Dumb and Dumber
6.637
Wish You Were Dead
4.864
The Midnight Man
5.789
Chronic Town
6
The Three Stooges
5.809
The Grudge
5.418
Project: ALF
5.8
Herbert West: Reanimator
4.7
Mountain Top
6.8
Darkness Falls
5.435
The Final Wish
5
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
5.667
Stuck on You
5.339
My Sister's Keeper
7.382
The Long Riders
6.656
Corrina, Corrina
6.7
Cellular
6.4
Jewtopia
4.637
Goldberg - P.I.
0
Room for Rent
6.3
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
0
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
4.5
Gothic Harvest
3.8
Waffle Hut
0
Los Angeles Overnight
4.2
Get Gone
4.5
Dreamkatcher
5.1
The Voices
5.4
Confessions of an Action Star
4.1
Me, Myself & Irene
6.605
American Cowslip
5.4
Trial by Fire
5.375
Matchmaker Santa
5.8
The Running Man
6.542
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
5.795
Alone in the Dark
5.8
Black Limousine
6.464
Dead of Nowhere 3D
0
The Horror Crowd
6
Before Memory
1
The Call
5.488
Living Out Loud
5.92
Ambition
4.8
Born Killers
5
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
6.444
Pump Up the Volume
7.067
Extreme Prejudice
6.193
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
0
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
5.3
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
6.549
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
7.8
Sex and the Married Woman
3
A Secret Space
0
Why Me?
5.4
Mistress
3.5
Book of Love
5.6
Barely Legal
5.962
Critters 3
5.3
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
7.95
ManFast
3.938
Devoted
0
House of Abraham
10
1000 Women in Horror
0
The Bench
0