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Name
Lin Shaye

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1943-10-12 (83 years old)

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 (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026).

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).

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2006 Snakes on a Plane as Grace
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street as Teacher
1998 There's Something About Mary as Magda
1988 Critters 2 as Sal
2006 Surf School as Larry's Mom
1986 Critters as Sally
2005 2001 Maniacs as Granny Boone
2001 Say It Isn't So as Nurse Bautista
1996 Kingpin as Landlady
2003 Dead End as Laura Harrington
1994 Wes Craven's New Nightmare as Nurse with Pills
1993 Amityville: A New Generation as Nurse Turner
2005 Hate Crime as Kathleen Slansky
1987 The Hidden as Carol Miller
1999 Detroit Rock City as Mrs. Bruce
1994 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as Rubber Rose Maid
1996 Last Man Standing as The Madame
2004 Who's Your Daddy? as Ms. Harding
2010 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams as Granny Boone
2022 Frank and Penelope as Ophelia
1997 Trading Favors as Darla
2010 Killer by Nature as Leona
2006 Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror as Clara
2006 Hoboken Hollow as Mrs. Brodrick
1993 The Temp as Rosemary
2011 Insidious as Elise Rainier
Soon The Old World as The Aunt (voice)
2022 Pines as Julie (voice)
2010 Next Stop Murder as Detective Reeson
2002 Contagion as Laura Crowley
2013 Insidious: Chapter 2 as Elise Rainier
2011 Take Me Home as Jill
Soon Carrier as Joan Pierson
2012 FDR: American Badass! as Eleanor Roosevelt
2007 The Election as The Wife
1993 Three of Hearts as Operator
2010 Farewell Mr. Kringle as Zelda
2007 Chasing Robert as Martha the Bookie
2011 Sedona as Claire
2013 Crazy Kind of Love as Denise Mack
2013 Big Ass Spider! as Mrs. Jefferson
2008 Doggie Heaven as Woman
2012 3 Days of Normal as May
2013 All American Christmas Carol as Barbara Belnap
2023 Insidious: The Red Door as Elise Rainier
2001 A Letter from My Father as Elise
1979 The Seeding of Sarah Burns as 2nd Nurse
2006 Down the P.C.H. as Wendy O'Hara
2014 The Signal as Mirabelle
2022 We Are Gathered Here Today as Jean Cole
2022 Living with Chucky as Self
2001 Without Charlie
2011 Chillerama as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
2005 Drop Dead Sexy as Ma Muzzy
1984 Summer Fantasy as Woman on Beach
2011 I Was a Teenage Werebear
2012 Life's an Itch as Gloria
2011 Rosewood Lane as Mrs. Hawthorne
2004 The Almost Guys as Repo Boss
1978 Goin' South as Parasol Lady
2006 Bachelor Party Vegas as Cassandra
2018 The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 as Self
2014 Lost Time as Mysterious Woman
2014 Grace as Helen
2013 Noobz as Mrs. Theodore
2017 Grow House as Mrs. Gilliam
1979 The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal as Freida
2007 Homo Erectus as Museum Guide
1985 Brewster's Millions as Journalist at Rally
2015 Insidious: Chapter 3 as Elise Rainier
2022 Remote as Kane
2010 Pickin' and Grinnin' as Bonnie Johnson
2014 Ouija as Paulina Zander
2015 Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves as Helen Keller
2015 Tales of Halloween as Lynn's Mother
1980 A Cry for Love
1994 Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter as Inmate
2016 Director's Cut as Captain Wheeler
1992 Roadside Prophets as Celeste
2011 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as Dody
2010 The Penthouse as Frances
2006 Unbeatable Harold as Jeannie
2002 Boat Trip as Sonya the Coach
2016 Jack Goes Home as Teresa
Soon The Possession at Gladstone Manor as Nurse
1975 Hester Street as Whore
2017 Buster's Mal Heart as Pauline
2026 Scared to Death as Max
2016 Abattoir as Allie
1998 Breakfast with Einstein as Miss Desmond
2016 Texas Heart as Mrs. Smith
2018 Insidious: The Last Key as Elise Rainier
2003 Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd as Margie
2000 Attention Shoppers as Libby
2009 Stuntmen as Bumble Jackson
1987 Stillwatch
2016 Ouija: Origin of Evil as Old Paulina Zander
1982 Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again as Nurse with Telegram
1995 Nature of the Beast as Carol Powell
1988 Lucky Stiff as Bratty Kid's Mom
1987 My Demon Lover as Anemic Counter Girl
2007 Pledge This! as Miss Prin
2008 Killer Pad as Marge
2009 Dark Moon Rising as Sunny
2004 The Hillside Strangler as Jenny Buono
2017 The Black Room as Miss Black
2006 Driftwood as Nancy Forrester
2008 Asylum as String's Mother
2004 A Cinderella Story as Mrs. Wells
2010 Small Town Saturday Night as Phyllis Ryan
1987 Slam Dance as Librarian
2015 Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha as The Grand Lady
1995 Sketch Artist II: Hands That See as Bonnie
2017 All About the Money as Mrs. Womack
1993 National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Witness
1994 Dumb and Dumber as Mrs. Neugeboren
2002 Wish You Were Dead as Jinny Macintosh
2016 The Midnight Man as Anna
2008 Chronic Town as Nurse
2012 The Three Stooges as Nurse Crotchet
2019 The Grudge as Faith Matheson
1996 Project: ALF as Waitress
2018 Herbert West: Reanimator as Meredith
2017 Mountain Top as Muriel Miller
2020 Darkness Falls as Angela Anderson
2019 The Final Wish as Kate Hammond
1994 In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance as Foreman #2
1994 Corrina, Corrina as Repeat Nanny
2003 Stuck on You as Makeup Babe
2009 My Sister's Keeper as Nurse Adele
1980 The Long Riders as Kate
2004 Cellular as Exotic Car Driver
2012 Jewtopia as Dr. Sutton
2011 Goldberg - P.I. as Violet
2019 Room for Rent as Joyce
2018 They Bite!: The Making of Critters as Self
2008 Starz Inside: In the Gutter as Self
2019 Gothic Harvest as Griselda
2012 Waffle Hut as Jerrie Wolf
2018 Los Angeles Overnight as Cousins
2019 Get Gone as Mama
2020 Dreamkatcher as Ruth
2020 The Voices as The Vagabond
2005 Confessions of an Action Star as Samantha Jones
2000 Me, Myself & Irene as Mrs. Caleron
2009 American Cowslip as Lou Anne
1995 Trial by Fire as Phyliis Cardell
2012 Matchmaker Santa as Debbie
1987 The Running Man as Propaganda Officer
2020 Max Reload and the Nether Blasters as Mrs. Wylder
1982 Alone in the Dark as Receptionist at Haven
2010 The Land of the Astronauts
Soon Dead of Nowhere 3D as Meemaw
2020 The Horror Crowd as Self
Soon Before Memory
2020 The Call as Edith Cranston
1998 Living Out Loud as Lisa's Nurse
2019 Ambition as Lady Bum
2005 Born Killers as Willow
2022 Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
1987 Extreme Prejudice as Employment Office Clerk
1990 Pump Up the Volume as PTA Parent #3
2010 VideoDome Rent-O-Rama as The Lush
1993 Brain Smasher... A Love Story as Make up Artist
2021 Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman as Mrs. Bundy
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
1977 Sex and the Married Woman as Sandra
1977 A Secret Space as Amy
1984 Why Me?
1987 Mistress as Woman Customer
1990 Book of Love as Mrs. Flynn
2003 Barely Legal as Tequlia
1991 Critters 3 as Sal (archive footage)
2024 The Last Stand of Ellen Cole as Ellen
2003 ManFast as Marge
Soon Devoted as Aunt Dottie
2025 House of Abraham
2025 1000 Women in Horror as Self
Soon The Bench
2010 The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue as Mrs. Rawlings
2026 Insidious: Out of the Further as Elise Rainier
Soon Jackson's Hole as Netter
Soon Mascotland
2022 The Quarry: Movie Mode as Constance Hackett
2006 Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane as Self
2007 Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles as Self
2007 Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes as Self
2007 The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane' as Self
Soon Thread: An Insidious Tale as Elise Rainier

1997 Perversions of Science ( 1 episode ) as Nurse
1984 Who's the Boss? ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Padnick
2005 My Name Is Earl ( 1 episode ) as Paul's Mom
1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode ) as Lila Barnes
1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Anne
1998 Becker ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Cooper
1994 ER ( 1 episode ) as Margaret
2021 Behind the Monsters ( 6 episodes ) as Self
2012 EastSiders ( 1 episode ) as Diane
1994 My So-Called Life ( 1 episode ) as Parent #2
2018 Eli Roth's History of Horror ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Dead Talk Live ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
1981 Falcon Crest ( 1 episode ) as Smoking Female Prisoner
1982 Cagney & Lacey ( 1 episode ) as Secretary
2020 Penny Dreadful: City of Angels ( 6 episodes ) as Dottie Minter
2001 Crossing Jordan ( 1 episode ) as Leather Lauren
1977 Eight Is Enough ( 1 episode ) as Band Member
1989 Life Goes On ( 1 episode ) as Parent #2
2007 Private Practice ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Taylor
2005 Made in Hollywood ( 1 episode ) as Self
2025 Common Side Effects ( 3 episodes ) as Sonia (voice)
1996 Arli$$ ( 1 episode ) as Shurja
2013 Insidious: Spectral Sightings ( 3 episodes ) as Elise

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