Lin Shaye
Known for: Acting
Born: October 12, 1943
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
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Filmography
189 movies · 24 TV shows, newest first
6.6
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
6.7
Scared to Death
2026
6.6
1000 Women in Horror
2025
9.5
House of Abraham
2025
8.5
Common Side Effects
2025
8.3
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
6.5
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
6.6
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
NR
Remote
2022
6.0
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
6.6
Living with Chucky
2022
10.0
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022
7.3
Frank and Penelope
2022
8.7
Pines
2022
5.7
Behind the Monsters
2021
6.6
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021
5.4
The Call
2020
5.7
The Horror Crowd
2020
5.8
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
5.4
The Voices
2020
5.2
Dreamkatcher
2020
6.8
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
9.0
Dead Talk Live
2020
5.4
Darkness Falls
2020
5.4
The Grudge
2019
3.6
Gothic Harvest
2019
5.0
Ambition
2019
4.3
Get Gone
2019
6.4
Room for Rent
2019
5.0
The Final Wish
2019
4.7
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018
NR
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018
NR
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
4.2
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
6.3
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
5.4
All About the Money
2017
6.1
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
3.7
The Black Room
2017
6.0
Grow House
2017
7.2
Mountain Top
2017
4.5
Abattoir
2016
6.2
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
5.8
The Midnight Man
2016
6.0
Director's Cut
2016
4.7
Texas Heart
2016
5.2
Jack Goes Home
2016
5.7
Tales of Halloween
2015
5.1
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
6.3
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
5.4
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
5.0
Grace
2014
5.1
Ouija
2014
3.3
Lost Time
2014
6.0
The Signal
2014
4.2
All American Christmas Carol
2013
5.6
Big Ass Spider!
2013
NR
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013
6.7
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
5.4
Crazy Kind of Love
2013
5.8
Noobz
2013
6.3
EastSiders
2012
3.0
Life's an Itch
2012
5.7
Matchmaker Santa
2012
5.1
FDR: American Badass!
2012
4.3
3 Days of Normal
2012
4.7
Jewtopia
2012
5.8
The Three Stooges
2012
NR
Waffle Hut
2012
4.7
Rosewood Lane
2011
5.7
Chillerama
2011
5.9
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
5.8
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
7.0
Insidious
2011
6.5
Take Me Home
2011
5.6
Sedona
2011
NR
Goldberg - P.I.
2011
6.2
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
6.3
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
6.6
Next Stop Murder
2010
1.0
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010
5.2
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
7.8
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
20102.0
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
3.8
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
3.4
The Penthouse
2010
3.1
Killer by Nature
2010
NR
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010
4.5
Dark Moon Rising
2009
3.4
Stuntmen
2009
5.1
American Cowslip
2009
7.4
My Sister's Keeper
2009
5.1
Doggie Heaven
2008
4.5
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
6.0
Chronic Town
2008
4.1
Asylum
2008
3.8
Killer Pad
2008
7.5
Private Practice
2007
2.0
Chasing Robert
2007
7.0
The Election
2007
4.0
Homo Erectus
2007
2.9
Pledge This!
2007
6.0
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007
NR
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007
5.0
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007
4.5
Driftwood
2006
2.8
Surf School
2006
4.3
Down the P.C.H.
2006
5.5
Snakes on a Plane
2006
4.8
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
4.9
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
3.8
Hoboken Hollow
2006
7.0
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006
5.0
Unbeatable Harold
2006
4.6
Made in Hollywood
2005
7.6
My Name Is Earl
2005
5.4
2001 Maniacs
2005
4.9
Drop Dead Sexy
2005
4.3
Confessions of an Action Star
2005
5.7
Hate Crime
2005
5.3
Born Killers
2005
5.1
The Hillside Strangler
2004
6.4
Cellular
2004
6.6
A Cinderella Story
2004
6.8
The Almost Guys
2004
4.9
Who's Your Daddy?
2004
6.4
Dead End
2003
5.4
Stuck on You
2003
5.9
Barely Legal
2003
4.2
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003
4.1
ManFast
2003
5.2
Boat Trip
2002
5.0
Wish You Were Dead
2002
4.2
Contagion
2002NR
A Letter from My Father
2001
7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
4.8
Say It Isn't So
20014.5
Without Charlie
2001
4.3
Attention Shoppers
2000
6.6
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
6.8
Detroit Rock City
1999
7.2
Becker
1998
6.0
Living Out Loud
1998
6.6
There's Something About Mary
1998
4.1
Breakfast with Einstein
1998
6.2
Perversions of Science
1997
4.6
Trading Favors
1997
6.4
Last Man Standing
1996
6.9
Arli$$
1996
6.5
Kingpin
1996
6.0
Project: ALF
1996
5.9
Nature of the Beast
1995
5.5
Trial by Fire
1995
6.0
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
6.7
Dumb and Dumber
1994
6.3
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
6.5
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
7.8
ER
1994
7.7
My So-Called Life
1994
6.7
Corrina, Corrina
1994
4.3
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
5.7
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
5.2
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
7.7
Frasier
1993
3.8
The Hidden II
1993
4.3
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
4.9
Three of Hearts
1993
4.8
The Temp
1993
6.1
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
5.6
Roadside Prophets
1992
5.3
Critters 3
1991
7.1
Pump Up the Volume
1990
5.5
Book of Love
1990
6.8
Life Goes On
1989
4.6
Lucky Stiff
1988
6.2
Critters 2
1988
6.5
The Running Man
1987
6.9
The Hidden
1987
4.3
Mistress
1987
4.9
Slam Dance
1987
5.3
My Demon Lover
1987
6.3
Extreme Prejudice
1987
6.6
Stillwatch
1987
6.5
Critters
1986
7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985
6.6
Brewster's Millions
1985
7.4
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
7.4
Who's the Boss?
1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
1984
5.3
Summer Fantasy
1984
5.6
Why Me?
1984
5.8
Alone in the Dark
1982
5.0
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982
6.9
Cagney & Lacey
1982
5.5
Falcon Crest
198110.0
A Cry for Love
1980
6.6
The Long Riders
1980
7.5
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979
7.2
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
5.8
Goin' South
1978
9.0
A Secret Space
1977
4.0
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
6.1
Eight Is Enough
1977
6.3
Hester Street
1975
NR
The Old World
—NR
Carrier
—NR
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
—NR
Dead of Nowhere 3D
—
1.0
Before Memory
—NR
Devoted
—NR
The Bench
—
NR
Jackson's Hole
—
NR
Mascotland
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