
Lin Shaye
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 12, 1943 (age 83)
- Birthplace
- 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography

The Old World
Movie · as The Aunt (voice)
Carrier
Movie · as Joan Pierson
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Movie · as Nurse
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Movie · as Meemaw

Before Memory
Movie
Devoted
Movie · as Aunt Dottie
The Bench
Movie

Jackson's Hole
Movie · as Netter

Mascotland
Movie

Scared to Death
Movie · as Max

Insidious: Out of the Further
Movie · as Elise Rainier

House of Abraham
Movie

1000 Women in Horror
Movie · as Self

Common Side Effects
TV · as Sonia (voice) · 3 eps

The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
Movie · as Ellen

Insidious: The Red Door
Movie · as Elise Rainier

Frank and Penelope
Movie · as Ophelia

Pines
Movie · as Julie (voice)

We Are Gathered Here Today
Movie · as Jean Cole

Living with Chucky
Movie · as Self

Remote
Movie · as Kane

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Movie · as Self

The Quarry: Movie Mode
Movie · as Constance Hackett

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
Movie · as Mrs. Bundy

Behind the Monsters
TV · as Self · 6 eps

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep

Darkness Falls
Movie · as Angela Anderson

Dreamkatcher
Movie · as Ruth

The Voices
Movie · as The Vagabond

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
Movie · as Mrs. Wylder

The Horror Crowd
Movie · as Self

The Call
Movie · as Edith Cranston

Dead Talk Live
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
TV · as Dottie Minter · 6 eps

The Grudge
Movie · as Faith Matheson

The Final Wish
Movie · as Kate Hammond

Room for Rent
Movie · as Joyce

Gothic Harvest
Movie · as Griselda

Get Gone
Movie · as Mama

Ambition
Movie · as Lady Bum

The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
Movie · as Self

Insidious: The Last Key
Movie · as Elise Rainier

Herbert West: Reanimator
Movie · as Meredith

They Bite!: The Making of Critters
Movie · as Self

Los Angeles Overnight
Movie · as Cousins

Eli Roth's History of Horror
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Grow House
Movie · as Mrs. Gilliam

Buster's Mal Heart
Movie · as Pauline

The Black Room
Movie · as Miss Black

All About the Money
Movie · as Mrs. Womack

Mountain Top
Movie · as Muriel Miller

Director's Cut
Movie · as Captain Wheeler

Jack Goes Home
Movie · as Teresa

Abattoir
Movie · as Allie

Texas Heart
Movie · as Mrs. Smith

Ouija: Origin of Evil
Movie · as Old Paulina Zander

The Midnight Man
Movie · as Anna

Insidious: Chapter 3
Movie · as Elise Rainier

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
Movie · as Helen Keller

Tales of Halloween
Movie · as Lynn's Mother

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Movie · as The Grand Lady

The Signal
Movie · as Mirabelle

Lost Time
Movie · as Mysterious Woman

Grace
Movie · as Helen

Ouija
Movie · as Paulina Zander

Insidious: Chapter 2
Movie · as Elise Rainier

Crazy Kind of Love
Movie · as Denise Mack

Big Ass Spider!
Movie · as Mrs. Jefferson

All American Christmas Carol
Movie · as Barbara Belnap

Noobz
Movie · as Mrs. Theodore

Insidious: Spectral Sightings
TV · as Elise · 3 eps

FDR: American Badass!
Movie · as Eleanor Roosevelt

3 Days of Normal
Movie · as May

Life's an Itch
Movie · as Gloria

The Three Stooges
Movie · as Nurse Crotchet

Jewtopia
Movie · as Dr. Sutton

Waffle Hut
Movie · as Jerrie Wolf

Matchmaker Santa
Movie · as Debbie

EastSiders
TV · as Diane · 1 ep

Insidious
Movie · as Elise Rainier

Take Me Home
Movie · as Jill

Sedona
Movie · as Claire

Chillerama
Movie · as Baglady / Nurse Maleva

I Was a Teenage Werebear
Movie

Rosewood Lane
Movie · as Mrs. Hawthorne

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Movie · as Dody

Goldberg - P.I.
Movie · as Violet

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
Movie · as Granny Boone

Killer by Nature
Movie · as Leona

Next Stop Murder
Movie · as Detective Reeson

Farewell Mr. Kringle
Movie · as Zelda
Pickin' and Grinnin'
Movie · as Bonnie Johnson

The Penthouse
Movie · as Frances

Small Town Saturday Night
Movie · as Phyllis Ryan

The Land of the Astronauts
Movie

VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
Movie · as The Lush

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Movie · as Self

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
Movie · as Mrs. Rawlings

Stuntmen
Movie · as Bumble Jackson

Dark Moon Rising
Movie · as Sunny

My Sister's Keeper
Movie · as Nurse Adele

American Cowslip
Movie · as Lou Anne

Doggie Heaven
Movie · as Woman

Asylum
Movie · as String's Mother

Killer Pad
Movie · as Marge

Chronic Town
Movie · as Nurse

Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Movie · as Self

The Election
Movie · as The Wife

Chasing Robert
Movie · as Martha the Bookie

Homo Erectus
Movie · as Museum Guide

Pledge This!
Movie · as Miss Prin

Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
Movie · as Self

Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
Movie · as Self

The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
Movie · as Self

Private Practice
TV · as Mrs. Taylor · 1 ep

Snakes on a Plane
Movie · as Grace

Surf School
Movie · as Larry's Mom

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Movie · as Clara

Hoboken Hollow
Movie · as Mrs. Brodrick

Down the P.C.H.
Movie · as Wendy O'Hara

Bachelor Party Vegas
Movie · as Cassandra

Unbeatable Harold
Movie · as Jeannie

Driftwood
Movie · as Nancy Forrester

Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
Movie · as Self

2001 Maniacs
Movie · as Granny Boone

Hate Crime
Movie · as Kathleen Slansky

Drop Dead Sexy
Movie · as Ma Muzzy

Confessions of an Action Star
Movie · as Samantha Jones

Born Killers
Movie · as Willow

My Name Is Earl
TV · as Paul's Mom · 1 ep

Made in Hollywood
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Who's Your Daddy?
Movie · as Ms. Harding

The Almost Guys
Movie · as Repo Boss

The Hillside Strangler
Movie · as Jenny Buono

A Cinderella Story
Movie · as Mrs. Wells

Cellular
Movie · as Exotic Car Driver

Dead End
Movie · as Laura Harrington

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Movie · as Margie

Stuck on You
Movie · as Makeup Babe

Barely Legal
Movie · as Tequlia

ManFast
Movie · as Marge

Contagion
Movie · as Laura Crowley

Boat Trip
Movie · as Sonya the Coach

Wish You Were Dead
Movie · as Jinny Macintosh

Say It Isn't So
Movie · as Nurse Bautista
A Letter from My Father
Movie · as Elise
Without Charlie
Movie

Crossing Jordan
TV · as Leather Lauren · 1 ep

Attention Shoppers
Movie · as Libby

Me, Myself & Irene
Movie · as Mrs. Caleron

Detroit Rock City
Movie · as Mrs. Bruce

There's Something About Mary
Movie · as Magda

Breakfast with Einstein
Movie · as Miss Desmond

Living Out Loud
Movie · as Lisa's Nurse

Becker
TV · as Mrs. Cooper · 1 ep

Trading Favors
Movie · as Darla

Perversions of Science
TV · as Nurse · 1 ep

Kingpin
Movie · as Landlady

Last Man Standing
Movie · as The Madame

Project: ALF
Movie · as Waitress

Arli$$
TV · as Shurja · 1 ep

Nature of the Beast
Movie · as Carol Powell

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
Movie · as Bonnie

Trial by Fire
Movie · as Phyliis Cardell

Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Movie · as Nurse with Pills

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Movie · as Rubber Rose Maid

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
Movie · as Inmate

Dumb and Dumber
Movie · as Mrs. Neugeboren

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
Movie · as Foreman #2

Corrina, Corrina
Movie · as Repeat Nanny

ER
TV · as Margaret · 1 ep

My So-Called Life
TV · as Parent #2 · 1 ep

Amityville: A New Generation
Movie · as Nurse Turner

The Temp
Movie · as Rosemary

Three of Hearts
Movie · as Operator

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Movie · as Witness

Brain Smasher... A Love Story
Movie · as Make up Artist

The Hidden II
Movie · as Carol Miller (archive footage)

Frasier
TV · as Anne · 1 ep

Roadside Prophets
Movie · as Celeste

Critters 3
Movie · as Sal (archive footage)

Pump Up the Volume
Movie · as PTA Parent #3

Book of Love
Movie · as Mrs. Flynn

Life Goes On
TV · as Parent #2 · 1 ep

Critters 2
Movie · as Sal

Lucky Stiff
Movie · as Bratty Kid's Mom

The Hidden
Movie · as Carol Miller

Stillwatch
Movie

My Demon Lover
Movie · as Anemic Counter Girl

Slam Dance
Movie · as Librarian

The Running Man
Movie · as Propaganda Officer

Extreme Prejudice
Movie · as Employment Office Clerk

Mistress
Movie · as Woman Customer

Critters
Movie · as Sally

Brewster's Millions
Movie · as Journalist at Rally

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon") · 1 ep

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Movie · as Teacher

Summer Fantasy
Movie · as Woman on Beach

Why Me?
Movie

Who's the Boss?
TV · as Mrs. Padnick · 1 ep

Highway to Heaven
TV · as Lila Barnes · 1 ep

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Movie · as Nurse with Telegram

Alone in the Dark
Movie · as Receptionist at Haven

Cagney & Lacey
TV · as Secretary · 1 ep

Falcon Crest
TV · as Smoking Female Prisoner · 1 ep
A Cry for Love
Movie

The Long Riders
Movie · as Kate

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
Movie · as 2nd Nurse

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Movie · as Freida

Goin' South
Movie · as Parasol Lady

Sex and the Married Woman
Movie · as Sandra

A Secret Space
Movie · as Amy

Eight Is Enough
TV · as Band Member · 1 ep

Hester Street
Movie · as Whore