Lin Shaye

Birthday: 1943-10-12
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

Lin 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. She has studied with some of the finest: Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Lin is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. She is also the younger sister of producer Robert Shaye.

Credits

Year Title Character
The Old World The Aunt (voice)
Carrier Joan Pierson
The Possession at Gladstone Manor Nurse
Dead of Nowhere 3D Meemaw
Before Memory
2024-08-11 Scared to Death Max
2023-07-05 Insidious: The Red Door Elise Rainier
2022-10-01 Remote Kane
2022-08-16 We Are Gathered Here Today Jean Cole
2022-06-03 Frank and Penelope Ophelia
2022-02-04 Pines Julie (voice)
2021-08-16 Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman Mrs. Bundy
2020-10-23 The Call Edith Cranston
2020-08-11 Max Reload and the Nether Blasters Mrs. Wylder
2020-07-03 The Voices The Vagabond
2020-06-24 Dreamkatcher Ruth
2020-03-07 Darkness Falls Angela Anderson
2019-12-31 The Grudge Faith Matheson
2019-10-15 Gothic Harvest Griselda
2019-09-20 Ambition Lady Bum
2019-07-31 Get Gone Mama
2019-05-03 Room for Rent Joyce
2019-01-24 The Final Wish Kate Hammond
2018-12-15 Herbert West: Reanimator Meredith
2018-03-20 Los Angeles Overnight Cousins
2018-01-03 Insidious: The Last Key Élise Rainier
2017-06-02 All About the Money Mrs. Womack
2017-05-28 Buster's Mal Heart Pauline
2017-04-28 The Black Room Miss Black
2017-04-20 Grow House Mrs. Gilliam
2017-02-10 Mountain Top Muriel Miller
2016-11-24 Abattoir Allie
2016-10-20 Ouija: Origin of Evil Old Paulina Zander
2016-09-30 The Midnight Man Anna
2016-07-19 Director's Cut Captain Wheeler
2016-05-20 Texas Heart Mrs. Smith
2016-03-14 Jack Goes Home Teresa
2015-10-16 Tales of Halloween Lynn's Mother
2015-10-01 Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves Helen Keller
2015-05-28 Insidious: Chapter 3 Elise Rainier
2015-01-07 Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha The Grand Lady
2014-10-28 Grace Helen
2014-10-24 Ouija Paulina Zander
2014-09-19 Lost Time Mysterious Woman
2014-03-15 The Signal Mirabelle
2013-11-05 All American Christmas Carol Barbara Belnap
2013-10-17 Big Ass Spider! Mrs. Jefferson
2013-09-12 Insidious: Chapter 2 Elise Rainier
2013-05-31 Crazy Kind of Love Denise Mack
2013-01-25 Noobz Mrs. Theodore
2012-12-01 Life's an Itch Gloria
2012-11-21 Matchmaker Santa Debbie
2012-09-24 FDR: American Badass! Eleanor Roosevelt
2012-06-02 3 Days of Normal May
2012-04-26 Jewtopia Dr. Sutton
2012-04-13 The Three Stooges Nurse Crotchet
2012-01-01 Waffle Hut Jerrie Wolf
2011-10-15 Rosewood Lane Mrs. Hawthorne
2011-10-14 Chillerama Baglady / Nurse Maleva
2011-09-02 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Dody
2011-09-01 I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011-03-31 Insidious Elise Rainier
2011-03-02 Take Me Home Jill
2011-02-19 Sedona Claire
2011-01-01 Goldberg - P.I. Violet
2010-12-04 Farewell Mr. Kringle Zelda
2010-10-19 Black Limousine
2010-09-19 Next Stop Murder Detective Reeson
2010-07-20 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams Granny Boone
2010-05-31 Small Town Saturday Night Phyllis Ryan
2010-04-17 Pickin' and Grinnin' Bonnie Johnson
2010-03-02 The Penthouse Frances
2010-01-01 Killer by Nature Leona
2010-01-01 VideoDome Rent-O-Rama The Lush
2009-10-10 Dark Moon Rising Sunny
2009-08-18 Stuntmen Bumble Jackson
2009-07-24 American Cowslip Lou Anne
2009-06-26 My Sister's Keeper Nurse Adele
2008-11-24 Doggie Heaven Woman
2008-04-03 Chronic Town Nurse
2008-03-20 Asylum String's Mother
2008-02-05 Killer Pad Marge
2007-07-17 Chasing Robert Martha the Bookie
2007-07-12 The Election The Wife
2007-07-10 Homo Erectus Museum Guide
2006-12-01 Pledge This! Miss Prin
2006-10-20 Driftwood Nancy Forrester
2006-09-01 Surf School Larry's Mom
2006-09-01 Surf School Larry's mom
2006-09-01 Down the P.C.H. Wendy O'Hara
2006-08-17 Snakes on a Plane Grace
2006-06-27 Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror Clara
2006-04-25 Bachelor Party Vegas Cassandra
2006-01-04 Hoboken Hollow Mrs. Brodrick
2006-01-01 Unbeatable Harold Jeannie
2005-05-12 2001 Maniacs Granny Boone
2005-03-12 Drop Dead Sexy Ma Muzzy
2005-01-23 Confessions of an Action Star Samantha Jones
2005-01-14 Hate Crime Kathleen Slansky
2005-01-01 Born Killers Willow
2004-11-12 The Hillside Strangler Jenny Buono
2004-09-06 Cellular Exotic Car Driver
2004-07-16 A Cinderella Story Mrs. Wells
2004-03-03 The Almost Guys Repo Boss
2004-01-07 Who's Your Daddy? Ms. Harding
2003-12-12 Dead End Laura Harrington
2003-12-10 Stuck on You Makeup Babe
2003-05-15 Barely Legal Tequlia
2003-04-14 Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Margie
2002-10-01 Boat Trip Sonya the Coach
2002-05-21 Wish You Were Dead Jinny Macintosh
2002-05-15 Contagion Laura Crowley
2001-10-18 A Letter from My Father Elise
2001-03-10 Say It Isn't So Nurse Bautista
2001-01-01 Without Charlie
2000-09-21 Attention Shoppers Libby
2000-06-22 Me, Myself & Irene Mrs. Caleron
1999-08-13 Detroit Rock City Mrs. Bruce
1998-10-30 Living Out Loud Lisa's Nurse
1998-07-15 There's Something About Mary Magda
1998-05-24 Breakfast with Einstein Miss Desmond
1997-06-04 Trading Favors Darla
1996-09-20 Last Man Standing The Madame
1996-07-04 Kingpin Landlady
1996-02-17 Project: ALF Waitress
1995-10-23 Nature of the Beast Carol Powell
1995-10-01 Trial by Fire Phyliis Cardell
1995-01-28 Sketch Artist II: Hands That See Bonnie
1994-12-16 Dumb and Dumber Mrs. Neugeboren
1994-10-14 Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter Inmate
1994-10-13 New Nightmare Nurse with Pills
1994-08-12 Corrina, Corrina Repeat Nanny
1994-05-13 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Rubber Rose Maid
1994-01-23 In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance Foreman #2
1993-11-17 Brain Smasher... A Love Story Make up Artist
1993-09-29 Amityville: A New Generation Nurse Turner
1993-04-30 Three of Hearts Operator
1993-02-12 The Temp Rosemary
1993-02-04 National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 Witness
1992-03-27 Roadside Prophets Celeste
1990-08-22 Pump Up the Volume PTA Parent #3
1990-08-03 Book of Love Mrs. Flynn
1988-11-01 Lucky Stiff Bratty Kid's Mom
1988-04-29 Critters 2 Sally
1987-11-13 The Running Man Propaganda Officer
1987-10-30 The Hidden Carol Miller
1987-10-04 Mistress Woman Customer
1987-10-02 Slam Dance Librarian
1987-04-24 My Demon Lover Anemic Counter Girl
1987-04-24 Extreme Prejudice Employment Office Clerk
1987-02-10 Stillwatch
1986-04-11 Critters Sally
1985-05-22 Brewster's Millions Journalist at Rally
1984-10-31 A Nightmare on Elm Street Teacher
1984-05-25 Summer Fantasy Woman on Beach
1984-03-12 Why Me?
1982-11-12 Alone in the Dark Receptionist at Haven
1982-11-10 Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again Nurse with Telegram
1980-10-20 A Cry for Love
1980-05-16 The Long Riders Kate
1979-04-07 The Seeding of Sarah Burns 2nd Nurse
1979-01-30 The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal Freida
1978-10-06 Goin' South Parasol Lady
1977-12-04 A Secret Space Amy
1977-09-13 Sex and the Married Woman Sandra
1975-10-19 Hester Street Whore