Lin Shaye
Acting
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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.
Filmography
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
Scared to Death
2026
1000 Women in Horror
2025
House of Abraham
2025
Common Side Effects
2025
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Remote
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
Living with Chucky
2022
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022
Frank and Penelope
2022
Pines
2022
Behind the Monsters
2021
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021
The Call
2020
The Horror Crowd
2020
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
The Voices
2020
Dreamkatcher
2020
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
Dead Talk Live
2020
Darkness Falls
2020
The Grudge
2019
Gothic Harvest
2019
Ambition
2019
Get Gone
2019
Room for Rent
2019
The Final Wish
2019
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
All About the Money
2017
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
The Black Room
2017
Grow House
2017
Mountain Top
2017
Abattoir
2016
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
The Midnight Man
2016
Director's Cut
2016
Texas Heart
2016
Jack Goes Home
2016
Tales of Halloween
2015
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
Grace
2014
Ouija
2014
Lost Time
2014
The Signal
2014
All American Christmas Carol
2013
Big Ass Spider!
2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Crazy Kind of Love
2013
Noobz
2013
EastSiders
2012
Life's an Itch
2012
Matchmaker Santa
2012
FDR: American Badass!
2012
3 Days of Normal
2012
Jewtopia
2012
The Three Stooges
2012
Waffle Hut
2012
Rosewood Lane
2011
Chillerama
2011
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
Insidious
2011
Take Me Home
2011
Sedona
2011
Goldberg - P.I.
2011
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
Next Stop Murder
2010
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
The Penthouse
2010
Killer by Nature
2010
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010
Dark Moon Rising
2009
Stuntmen
2009
American Cowslip
2009
My Sister's Keeper
2009
Doggie Heaven
2008
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
Chronic Town
2008
Asylum
2008
Killer Pad
2008
Private Practice
2007
Chasing Robert
2007
The Election
2007
Homo Erectus
2007
Pledge This!
2007
Driftwood
2006
Surf School
2006
Down the P.C.H.
2006
Snakes on a Plane
2006
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
Hoboken Hollow
2006
Pure Venom: The Making of "Snakes on a Plane"
2006
Unbeatable Harold
2006
Made in Hollywood
2005
My Name Is Earl
2005
2001 Maniacs
2005
Drop Dead Sexy
2005
Confessions of an Action Star
2005
Hate Crime
2005
Born Killers
2005
The Hillside Strangler
2004
Cellular
2004
A Cinderella Story
2004
The Almost Guys
2004
Who's Your Daddy?
2004
Dead End
2003
Stuck on You
2003
Barely Legal
2003
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003
ManFast
2003
Boat Trip
2002
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Contagion
2002
A Letter from My Father
2001
Crossing Jordan
2001
Say It Isn't So
2001
Without Charlie
2001
Attention Shoppers
2000
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
Detroit Rock City
1999
Becker
1998
Living Out Loud
1998
There's Something About Mary
1998
Breakfast with Einstein
1998
Perversions of Science
1997
Trading Favors
1997
Last Man Standing
1996
Arli$$
1996
Kingpin
1996
Project: ALF
1996
Nature of the Beast
1995
Trial by Fire
1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
ER
1994
My So-Called Life
1994
Corrina, Corrina
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
Frasier
1993
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
Three of Hearts
1993
The Temp
1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
Roadside Prophets
1992
Critters 3
1991
Pump Up the Volume
1990
Book of Love
1990
Life Goes On
1989
Lucky Stiff
1988
Critters 2
1988
The Running Man
1987
The Hidden
1987
Mistress
1987
Slam Dance
1987
My Demon Lover
1987
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Stillwatch
1987
Critters
1986
The Twilight Zone
1985
Brewster's Millions
1985
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
Who's the Boss?
1984
Highway to Heaven
1984
Summer Fantasy
1984
Why Me?
1984
Alone in the Dark
1982
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Falcon Crest
1981
A Cry for Love
1980
The Long Riders
1980
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
Goin' South
1978
A Secret Space
1977
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
Eight Is Enough
1977
Hester Street
1975
The Old World
Carrier
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Before Memory
Devoted
The Bench
Jackson's Hole
Mascotland