Lin Shaye
Birthdate: Oct 12, 1943
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
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- 2026 |
Insidious: Out of the Further
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
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- 2026 |
Scared to Death
asMax
Jasper, a young filmmaker, seizes a chance to direct when his crew attends a seance in a haunted children's shelter. Trapped inside, they're haunted by ghostly orphans and a sinister force.
- 2024 |
Director’s Cut
Excited to shoot their first music video, a punk rock band ventures into the woods of P.A. never to return.
- 2022 | Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
- 2022 | Living with Chucky
- 2022 | Pines
- 2022 | We Are Gathered Here Today
- 2021 |
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
asMrs. Bundy
The intrepid FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and Robert Ressler, organize one of the largest manhunt in history to apprehend America's most infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy.
- 2020 | Darkness Falls
- 2020 | Dreamkatcher
- 2020 | Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
- 2020 | The Horror Crowd
- 2020 | The Voices
- 2020 |
- 2019 | Ambition
- 2019 | Get Gone
- 2019 | Gothic Harvest
- 2019 | Room for Rent
- 2019 |
The Final Wish
After the death of his father, Aaron returns home to help his grief-stricken mother and to confront his past. Going through his dad's belongings, he comes across a mysterious item that is more than it seems.
- 2018 | Los Angeles Overnight
- 2018 |
Insidious: The Last Key
Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet, as she is drawn back to her ghostly childhood home where the terror began.
- 2017 | All About the Money
- 2017 | Grow House
- 2017 | Mountain Top
- 2017 | The Black Room
- 2017 |
Buster’s Mal Heart
A family man's chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter leaves him on the run from the police and an impending event known as the Inversion.
- 2016 | Abattoir
- 2016 | Jack Goes Home
- 2016 | Texas Heart
- 2016 | The Midnight Man
- 2015 | Don Quixote
- 2015 | Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
- 2015 | Sick People
- 2015 |
Insidious: Chapter 3
asElise Rainier
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
- 2014 | Grace: The Possession
- 2014 | Lost Time
- 2014 |
- 2013 | All American Christmas Carol
- 2013 | Crazy Kind of Love
- 2013 | Big Ass Spider!
- 2013 |
Insidious: Chapter 2
asElise Rainier
The Lamberts believe that they have defeated the spirits that have haunted their family, but they soon discover that evil is not beaten so easily.
- 2012 | 3 Days of Normal
- 2012 | FDR: American Badass!
- 2012 | Noobz
- 2011 | Losing Control
- 2011 | Take Me Home
- 2011 | Chillerama
- 2011 | Goldberg - P.I.
- 2011 | Rosewood Lane
- 2010 | Insidious
- 2010 | 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
- 2010 | Black Limousine
- 2010 | Killer by Nature
- 2010 | Small Town Saturday Night
- 2010 | The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
- 2009 | Dark Moon Rising
- 2008 | Asylum
- 2006 | Down the P.C.H.
- 2006 | Hoboken Hollow
- 2006 | Unbeatable Harold
- 2006 | Snakes on a Plane
- 2006 |
Snakes on a Plane
asGrace
An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.
- 2005 | 2001 Maniacs
- 2005 | Confessions of an Action Star
- 2005 | Hate Crime
- 2004 | The Almost Guys
- 2004 | A Cinderella Story
- 2003 | Dead End
- 2002 | Boat Trip
- 2002 | Contagion
- 2001 | Surfacing: AKA A Letter from My Father
- 2001 | Wish You Were Dead
- 2001 | Without Charlie
- 1999 | Detroit Rock City
- 1998 | There's Something About Mary
- 1996 | Kingpin
- 1987 |
The Hidden
asCarol Miller
A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
- 1984 | A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 1984 |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
asTeacher
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
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