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Laura Linney: Brown University
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As a child, Laura Linney attended boarding school, and spent three summers at Camp Equinita, a private summer camp for children. Her parents divorced while Linney was an infant, and she was mostly raised by her mother. But the time she spent with her father (a professor, playwright, and two-time Obie winner) had a profound impact, and young Linney soon decided she would be an actress. When she was 12, her father got her a job as a stagehand at a New Hampshire repertory theatre. She later studied drama at Northwestern, Brown, and the Juilliard School, where she became good friends with another student, Jeanne Tripplehorn.
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A graduate of Brown University, Laura studied at Moscow's Arts Theater School and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, she appeared in Top Girls, The Matriarch and other productions. She subsequently appeared in regional theater and off-Broadway productions, including John Patrick Shanley's Beggars in the House of Plenty. Linney won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Sight Unseen. She has appeared on Broadway in The Seagull, with Ethan Hawke, Tyne Daly and Jon Voight, Six Degrees of Separation with Stockard Channing and Hedda Gabler with Kelly McGillis, for which she won the 1994 Calloway Award.
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Linney started doing plays in high school, and summer stock, and even though she was privately amazed by people who had the audacity to declare they were going into acting, the dream was already there. She went to Brown, and did more plays, then enrolled in Juilliard to study drama.
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One of New England’s own, Linney attended boarding school in Massachusetts, studied theater at Brown, and currently lives in Connecticut. Today she’s in Boston to promote Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages, her fifth movie released in 2007 following performances as an icy FBI agent (Breach), a morally comprised wife (Jindabyne), an overbearing mom (The Hottest State), and a Manhattan socialite (The Nanny Diaries). On screen she’s a chameleon; in person the actress is disarmingly down-to-earth and smart enough to intimidate you even though that’s clearly not what she’s trying to do. In her latest movie she plays Wendy Savage, a late-thirties aspiring playwright whose neuroses implode when her dad (Philip Bosco) is checked into a nursing home and she moves to her brother's (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) house in the cold doldrums of Buffalo.
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