People
Lin Shaye
- Name: Lin Shaye
- Birthday: 1943-10-12
- Also known as: Linda "Lin" Shaye,لین شی
- Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Popularity: 1.8237
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Insidious: The Bleeding World as Elise Rainier | 2026-08-19 |
| Scared to Death as Max | 2026-03-13 |
| Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
| 1000 Women in Horror as Self | 2025-08-21 |
| House of Abraham | 2025-06-13 |
| The Last Stand of Ellen Cole as Ellen | 2024-10-18 |
| Insidious: The Red Door as Elise Rainier | 2023-07-05 |
| Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self | 2022-10-07 |
| Remote as Kane | 2022-10-01 |
| We Are Gathered Here Today as Jean Cole | 2022-08-16 |
| Living with Chucky as Self | 2022-08-13 |
| Frank and Penelope as Ophelia | 2022-06-03 |
| Pines as Julie (voice) | 2022-02-04 |
| Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman as Mrs. Bundy | 2021-08-16 |
| The Call as Edith Cranston | 2020-10-23 |
| The Horror Crowd as Self | 2020-10-07 |
| Max Reload and the Nether Blasters as Mrs. Wylder | 2020-08-11 |
| The Voices as The Vagabond | 2020-07-03 |
| Dreamkatcher as Ruth | 2020-06-24 |
| Darkness Falls as Angela Anderson | 2020-03-07 |
| The Grudge as Faith Matheson | 2019-12-31 |
| Gothic Harvest as Griselda | 2019-10-15 |
| Ambition as Lady Bum | 2019-09-20 |
| Get Gone as Mama | 2019-07-31 |
| Room for Rent as Joyce | 2019-05-03 |
| The Final Wish as Kate Hammond | 2019-01-24 |
| Herbert West: Reanimator as Meredith | 2018-12-15 |
| The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 as Self | 2018-11-27 |
| They Bite!: The Making of Critters as Self | 2018-11-27 |
| Los Angeles Overnight as Cousins | 2018-03-20 |
| Insidious: The Last Key as Elise Rainier | 2018-01-03 |
| All About the Money as Mrs. Womack | 2017-06-02 |
| Buster's Mal Heart as Pauline | 2017-05-28 |
| The Black Room as Miss Black | 2017-04-28 |
| Grow House as Mrs. Gilliam | 2017-04-20 |
| Mountain Top as Muriel Miller | 2017-02-10 |
| Abattoir as Allie | 2016-11-24 |
| Ouija: Origin of Evil as Old Paulina Zander | 2016-10-20 |
| The Midnight Man as Anna | 2016-09-30 |
| Director's Cut as Captain Wheeler | 2016-07-19 |
| Texas Heart as Mrs. Smith | 2016-05-20 |
| Jack Goes Home as Teresa | 2016-03-14 |
| Tales of Halloween as Lynn's Mother | 2015-10-16 |
| Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves as Helen Keller | 2015-10-01 |
| Insidious: Chapter 3 as Elise Rainier | 2015-05-28 |
| Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha as The Grand Lady | 2015-01-07 |
| Grace as Helen | 2014-10-28 |
| Ouija as Paulina Zander | 2014-10-24 |
| Lost Time as Mysterious Woman | 2014-09-19 |
| The Signal as Mirabelle | 2014-03-15 |
| All American Christmas Carol as Barbara Belnap | 2013-11-05 |
| Big Ass Spider! as Mrs. Jefferson | 2013-10-17 |
| Insidious: Chapter 2 as Elise Rainier | 2013-09-12 |
| Crazy Kind of Love as Denise Mack | 2013-05-31 |
| Noobz as Mrs. Theodore | 2013-01-25 |
| Life's an Itch as Gloria | 2012-12-01 |
| Matchmaker Santa as Debbie | 2012-11-21 |
| FDR: American Badass! as Eleanor Roosevelt | 2012-09-24 |
| 3 Days of Normal as May | 2012-06-02 |
| Jewtopia as Dr. Sutton | 2012-04-26 |
| The Three Stooges as Nurse Crotchet | 2012-04-13 |
| Waffle Hut as Jerrie Wolf | 2012-01-01 |
| Rosewood Lane as Mrs. Hawthorne | 2011-10-15 |
| Chillerama as Baglady / Nurse Maleva | 2011-10-14 |
| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as Dody | 2011-09-02 |
| I Was a Teenage Werebear | 2011-09-01 |
| Insidious as Elise Rainier | 2011-03-31 |
| Take Me Home as Jill | 2011-03-02 |
| Sedona as Claire | 2011-02-19 |
| Goldberg - P.I. as Violet | 2011-01-01 |
| Farewell Mr. Kringle as Zelda | 2010-12-04 |
| The Land of the Astronauts | 2010-10-19 |
| Next Stop Murder as Detective Reeson | 2010-09-19 |
| The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue as Mrs. Rawlings | 2010-07-28 |
| Small Town Saturday Night as Phyllis Ryan | 2010-05-31 |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self | 2010-05-04 |
| Pickin' and Grinnin' as Bonnie Johnson | 2010-04-17 |
| 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams as Granny Boone | 2010-03-06 |
| The Penthouse as Frances | 2010-03-02 |
| Killer by Nature as Leona | 2010-01-01 |
| VideoDome Rent-O-Rama as The Lush | 2010-01-01 |
| Dark Moon Rising as Sunny | 2009-10-10 |
| Stuntmen as Bumble Jackson | 2009-08-18 |
| American Cowslip as Lou Anne | 2009-07-24 |
| My Sister's Keeper as Nurse Adele | 2009-06-26 |
| Doggie Heaven as Woman | 2008-11-24 |
| Starz Inside: In the Gutter as Self | 2008-07-29 |
| Chronic Town as Nurse | 2008-04-03 |
| Asylum as String's Mother | 2008-03-20 |
| Killer Pad as Marge | 2008-02-05 |
| Chasing Robert as Martha the Bookie | 2007-07-17 |
| The Election as The Wife | 2007-07-12 |
| Homo Erectus as Museum Guide | 2007-07-10 |
| Pledge This! as Miss Prin | 2007-02-08 |
| Driftwood as Nancy Forrester | 2006-10-20 |
| Surf School as Larry's Mom | 2006-09-01 |
| Surf School as Larry's mom | 2006-09-01 |
| Down the P.C.H. as Wendy O'Hara | 2006-09-01 |
| Snakes on a Plane as Grace | 2006-08-17 |
| Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror as Clara | 2006-06-27 |
| Bachelor Party Vegas as Cassandra | 2006-04-25 |
| Hoboken Hollow as Mrs. Brodrick | 2006-01-04 |
| Unbeatable Harold as Jeannie | 2006-01-01 |
| 2001 Maniacs as Granny Boone | 2005-05-12 |
| Drop Dead Sexy as Ma Muzzy | 2005-03-12 |
| Confessions of an Action Star as Samantha Jones | 2005-01-23 |
| Hate Crime as Kathleen Slansky | 2005-01-14 |
| Born Killers as Willow | 2005-01-01 |
| The Hillside Strangler as Jenny Buono | 2004-11-12 |
| Cellular as Exotic Car Driver | 2004-09-06 |
| A Cinderella Story as Mrs. Wells | 2004-07-16 |
| The Almost Guys as Repo Boss | 2004-03-03 |
| Who's Your Daddy? as Ms. Harding | 2004-01-07 |
| Dead End as Laura Harrington | 2003-12-12 |
| Stuck on You as Makeup Babe | 2003-12-10 |
| Barely Legal as Tequlia | 2003-05-15 |
| Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd as Margie | 2003-04-14 |
| ManFast as Marge | 2003-01-01 |
| Boat Trip as Sonya the Coach | 2002-10-01 |
| Wish You Were Dead as Jinny Macintosh | 2002-05-21 |
| Contagion as Laura Crowley | 2002-05-15 |
| A Letter from My Father as Elise | 2001-10-18 |
| Say It Isn't So as Nurse Bautista | 2001-03-10 |
| Without Charlie | 2001-01-01 |
| Attention Shoppers as Libby | 2000-09-21 |
| Me, Myself & Irene as Mrs. Caleron | 2000-06-22 |
| Detroit Rock City as Mrs. Bruce | 1999-08-13 |
| Living Out Loud as Lisa's Nurse | 1998-10-30 |
| There's Something About Mary as Magda | 1998-07-15 |
| Breakfast with Einstein as Miss Desmond | 1998-05-24 |
| Trading Favors as Darla | 1997-06-04 |
| Last Man Standing as The Madame | 1996-09-20 |
| Kingpin as Landlady | 1996-07-04 |
| Project: ALF as Waitress | 1996-02-17 |
| Nature of the Beast as Carol Powell | 1995-10-23 |
| Trial by Fire as Phyliis Cardell | 1995-10-01 |
| Sketch Artist II: Hands That See as Bonnie | 1995-01-28 |
| Dumb and Dumber as Mrs. Neugeboren | 1994-12-16 |
| Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter as Inmate | 1994-10-14 |
| New Nightmare as Nurse with Pills | 1994-10-13 |
| Corrina, Corrina as Repeat Nanny | 1994-08-12 |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as Rubber Rose Maid | 1994-05-13 |
| In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance as Foreman #2 | 1994-01-23 |
| Brain Smasher... A Love Story as Make up Artist | 1993-11-17 |
| Amityville: A New Generation as Nurse Turner | 1993-09-29 |
| Three of Hearts as Operator | 1993-04-30 |
| The Temp as Rosemary | 1993-02-12 |
| National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Witness | 1993-02-04 |
| Roadside Prophets as Celeste | 1992-03-27 |
| Critters 3 as Sal (archive footage) | 1991-12-11 |
| Pump Up the Volume as PTA Parent #3 | 1990-08-22 |
| Book of Love as Mrs. Flynn | 1990-08-03 |
| Lucky Stiff as Bratty Kid's Mom | 1988-11-01 |
| Critters 2 as Sal | 1988-04-29 |
| The Running Man as Propaganda Officer | 1987-11-13 |
| The Hidden as Carol Miller | 1987-10-30 |
| Mistress as Woman Customer | 1987-10-04 |
| Slam Dance as Librarian | 1987-10-02 |
| Extreme Prejudice as Employment Office Clerk | 1987-04-24 |
| My Demon Lover as Anemic Counter Girl | 1987-04-24 |
| Stillwatch | 1987-02-10 |
| Critters as Sally | 1986-04-11 |
| Brewster's Millions as Journalist at Rally | 1985-05-22 |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street as Teacher | 1984-11-09 |
| Summer Fantasy as Woman on Beach | 1984-05-25 |
| Why Me? | 1984-03-12 |
| Alone in the Dark as Receptionist at Haven | 1982-11-12 |
| Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again as Nurse with Telegram | 1982-11-10 |
| A Cry for Love | 1980-10-20 |
| The Long Riders as Kate | 1980-05-16 |
| The Seeding of Sarah Burns as 2nd Nurse | 1979-04-07 |
| The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal as Freida | 1979-01-30 |
| Goin' South as Parasol Lady | 1978-10-06 |
| A Secret Space as Amy | 1977-12-04 |
| Sex and the Married Woman as Sandra | 1977-09-13 |
| Hester Street as Whore | 1975-10-19 |
