
Lin Shaye
Born: 1943-10-12
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent(2019), The Grudge (2020), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2023). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Cellular

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Insidious: The Red Door

Insidious

The Running Man

Dumb and Dumber

There's Something About Mary

Critters

Critters 2

Me, Myself & Irene

Critters 3

Project: ALF

A Cinderella Story

Barely Legal

2001 Maniacs

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 3

My Sister's Keeper

Kingpin

Grow House

Snakes on a Plane

Mountain Top

Insidious: The Last Key

Ouija

The Call

Trading Favors

Goin' South

Homo Erectus

Hoboken Hollow

The Last Stand of Ellen Cole

Lost Time

New Nightmare

Pledge This!

Rosewood Lane

Hester Street

Dreamkatcher

Lucky Stiff

Contagion

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Abattoir

Summer Fantasy

Drop Dead Sexy

Corrina, Corrina

The Election

Killer Pad

Roadside Prophets

Chasing Robert

The Voices

Matchmaker Santa

Surf School

Surf School

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

The Three Stooges

The Grudge

Stuntmen

Gothic Harvest

Slam Dance

Sedona

Chillerama

Mistress

Last Man Standing

Boat Trip

Driftwood

Asylum

The Signal

Texas Heart

Frank and Penelope

Brewster's Millions

Take Me Home

Unbeatable Harold

Darkness Falls

Insidious: The Bleeding World

Jewtopia

Sex and the Married Woman

Living with Chucky

Doggie Heaven

Scared to Death

My Demon Lover

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Stillwatch

The Hidden

Pump Up the Volume

Stuck on You

Pines

Dead End

Ambition

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Tales of Halloween

Waffle Hut

FDR: American Badass!

Crazy Kind of Love

Chronic Town

Room for Rent

The Midnight Man

Big Ass Spider!

Alone in the Dark

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Brain Smasher... A Love Story

The Long Riders

Who's Your Daddy?

Hate Crime

The Final Wish

Wish You Were Dead

Breakfast with Einstein

Extreme Prejudice

Bachelor Party Vegas

The Black Room

Grace

Book of Love

VideoDome Rent-O-Rama

Detroit Rock City

Farewell Mr. Kringle

Living Out Loud

Amityville: A New Generation

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

Jack Goes Home

Say It Isn't So

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

The Temp

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

They Bite!: The Making of Critters

Director's Cut

Dark Moon Rising

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

American Cowslip

Los Angeles Overnight

The Penthouse

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

Noobz

The Horror Crowd

Trial by Fire

Life's an Itch

All About the Money

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

Confessions of an Action Star

The Hillside Strangler

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

Three of Hearts

Buster's Mal Heart

House of Abraham

Killer by Nature

3 Days of Normal

Small Town Saturday Night

Nature of the Beast

The Almost Guys

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

ManFast

Next Stop Murder

A Secret Space

I Was a Teenage Werebear

Born Killers

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

We Are Gathered Here Today

The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2

Get Gone

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

The Land of the Astronauts

Herbert West: Reanimator

All American Christmas Carol

Attention Shoppers

Why Me?

The Old World

Remote

Goldberg - P.I.

1000 Women in Horror
