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?
7.4
My Name Is Earl
7.666
Highway to Heaven
7.385
Frasier
7.674
Becker
7.2
ER
7.828
Behind the Monsters
5.7
EastSiders
6.4
My So-Called Life
7.6
Eli Roth's History of Horror
6.6
Dead Talk Live
9
The Twilight Zone
7.762
Falcon Crest
5.5
Cagney & Lacey
6.9
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
6.8
Crossing Jordan
7.166
Eight Is Enough
6
Life Goes On
6.385
Private Practice
7.517
Made in Hollywood
4
Common Side Effects
8.5
Movies
Snakes on a Plane
5.459
A Nightmare on Elm Street
7.3
There's Something About Mary
6.613
Critters 2
6.2
Surf School
2.691
Critters
6.5
2001 Maniacs
5.361
Say It Isn't So
4.747
Kingpin
6.497
Dead End
6.346
New Nightmare
6.448
Amityville: A New Generation
4.185
Hate Crime
5.788
Surf School
2.691
The Hidden
6.888
Detroit Rock City
6.7
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4.392
Last Man Standing
6.4
Who's Your Daddy?
4.923
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
3.821
Frank and Penelope
7.341
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
6.943
The Old World
0
Pines
8
Next Stop Murder
6.4
Contagion
4
Insidious: Chapter 2
6.679
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
5.548
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
6.574
A Letter from My Father
0
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
6
Down the P.C.H.
2.5
The Signal
6.006
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
4.758
The Almost Guys
6.7
Goin' South
5.815
Bachelor Party Vegas
4.875
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
0
Lost Time
3.4
Grace
4.9
Noobz
5.894
Grow House
6.2
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
7
Homo Erectus
3.853
Brewster's Millions
6.593
Insidious: Chapter 3
6.284
Remote
0
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2
Ouija
5.145
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
5.118
Tales of Halloween
5.7
A Cry for Love
0
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
5.7
Director's Cut
6.052
Roadside Prophets
5.688
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
5.9
The Penthouse
3.475
Unbeatable Harold
3
Boat Trip
5.294
Jack Goes Home
5.1
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
0
Hester Street
6.2
Buster's Mal Heart
6.135
Scared to Death
0
Abattoir
4.5
Breakfast with Einstein
2.4
Texas Heart
4.667
Insidious: The Last Key
6.252
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
4.1
Attention Shoppers
2.5
Stuntmen
2.917
Stillwatch
6.5
Ouija: Origin of Evil
6.1
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
4.9
Nature of the Beast
5.917
Lucky Stiff
4.321
My Demon Lover
5.29
Pledge This!
2.787
Killer Pad
4.056
Dark Moon Rising
4.033
The Hillside Strangler
4.897
The Black Room
3.793
Driftwood
4.278
Asylum
4
A Cinderella Story
6.6
Small Town Saturday Night
5.4
Slam Dance
4.8
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
6.045
Dumb and Dumber
6.635
Wish You Were Dead
5.15
The Midnight Man
5.798
Chronic Town
6
The Three Stooges
5.795
The Grudge
5.4
Project: ALF
5.8
Herbert West: Reanimator
4.7
Mountain Top
7.1
Darkness Falls
5.4
The Final Wish
4.99
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
3.5
Corrina, Corrina
6.7
Stuck on You
5.3
My Sister's Keeper
7.4
The Long Riders
6.67
Cellular
6.383
Jewtopia
4.704
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
3.75
Waffle Hut
0
Los Angeles Overnight
4.2
Get Gone
4.5
Dreamkatcher
5.1
The Voices
5.354
Confessions of an Action Star
4.077
Me, Myself & Irene
6.606
American Cowslip
5.4
Trial by Fire
5.8
Matchmaker Santa
5.75
The Running Man
6.539
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
5.9
Alone in the Dark
5.8
Black Limousine
6.464
Dead of Nowhere 3D
0
The Horror Crowd
6
Before Memory
1
The Call
5.497
Living Out Loud
5.92
Ambition
4.8
Born Killers
5.033
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
6.1
Extreme Prejudice
6.18
Pump Up the Volume
7.059
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
0
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
5.268
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
6.5
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
8.119
ManFast
3.938
Devoted
0
House of Abraham
0