Biography
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. She is also the younger sister of producer Robert Shaye.
Filmography
all 181
Movies 165
TV Shows 16
self 8
Elise Rainier
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Movie
6.67
Self
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)
Movie
Kane
Remote (2022)
Movie
Jean Cole
We Are Gathered Here Today (2022)
Movie
Self
Living with Chucky (2022)
Movie
9
Ophelia
Frank and Penelope (2022)
Movie
9
Julia
Pines (2022)
Movie
Self
Behind the Monsters (2021)
TV
Mrs. Bundy
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
Movie
1
Edith Cranston
The Call (2020)
Movie
Self
The Horror Crowd (2020)
Movie
Mrs. Wylder
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
Movie
2.4
The Vagabond
The Voices (2020)
Movie
6
Ruth
Dreamkatcher (2020)
Movie
4.5
Dottie Minter
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
TV
6.05
Angela Anderson
Darkness Falls (2020)
Movie
Faith Matheson
The Grudge (2019)
Movie
5.21
Griselda
Gothic Harvest (2019)
Movie
Lady Bum
Ambition (2019)
Movie
5.77
Mama Maxwell
Get Gone (2019)
Movie
Joyce
Room for Rent (2019)
Movie
Kate Hammond
The Final Wish (2019)
Movie
Meredith
Herbert West: Reanimator (2018)
Movie
Self
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 (2018)
Movie
Self
They Bite!: The Making of Critters (2018)
Movie
Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018)
TV
Cousins
Los Angeles Overnight (2018)
Movie
Elise Rainier
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Movie
5.93
Mrs. Womack
All About the Money (2017)
Movie
Pauline
Buster's Mal Heart (2017)
Movie
Miss Black
The Black Room (2017)
Movie
Mrs. Gilliam
Grow House (2017)
Movie
Muriel Miller
Mountain Top (2017)
Movie
Allie
Abattoir (2016)
Movie
6
Old Paulina Zander
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Movie
6.07
Anna
The Midnight Man (2016)
Movie
Captain Wheeler
Director's Cut (2016)
Movie
Mrs. Smith
Texas Heart (2016)
Movie
Teresa
Jack Goes Home (2016)
Movie
4
Lynn's Mother
Tales of Halloween (2015)
Movie
Helen Keller
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves (2015)
Movie
Elise Rainier
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Movie
5.59
The Grand Lady
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha (2015)
Movie
6
Helen
Grace (2014)
Movie
5.19
Paulina Zander
Ouija (2014)
Movie
5.5
Mysterious Woman
Lost Time (2014)
Movie
Mirabelle
The Signal (2014)
Movie
4
Barbara Belnap
All American Christmas Carol (2013)
Movie
Mrs. Jefferson
Big Ass Spider! (2013)
Movie
Elise Rainier
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Movie
5.7
Denise Mack
Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Movie
Mrs. Theodore
Noobz (2013)
Movie
Diane
EastSiders (2012)
TV
Gloria
Life's an Itch (2012)
Movie
Debbie
Matchmaker Santa (2012)
Movie
4
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR: American Badass! (2012)
Movie
May
3 Days of Normal (2012)
Movie
Dr. Sutton
Jewtopia (2012)
Movie
Nurse Crotchet
The Three Stooges (2012)
Movie
Jerrie Wolf (2012)
Waffle Hut (2012)
Movie
Mrs. Hawthorne
Rosewood Lane (2011)
Movie
Baglady / Nurse Maleva (segments "Wadzilla" and "I Was a Teenage Werebear")
Chillerama (2011)
Movie
Dody
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
Movie
6
Nurse Maleva
I Was a Teenage Werebear (2011)
Movie
Elise Rainier
Insidious (2011)
Movie
6.29
Jill
Take Me Home (2011)
Movie
Claire
Sedona (2011)
Movie
Violet
Goldberg - P.I. (2011)
Movie
Zelda
Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010)
Movie
Black Limousine (2010)
Movie
Detective Reeson
Next Stop Murder (2010)
Movie
Mrs. Rawlings
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue (2010)
Movie
Granny Boone
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Movie
Phyllis Ryan
Small Town Saturday Night (2010)
Movie
Self
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Movie
Bonnie Johnson
Pickin' and Grinnin' (2010)
Movie
Frances
The Penthouse (2010)
Movie
Leona
Killer by Nature (2010)
Movie
The Lush
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama (2010)
Movie
Sunny
Dark Moon Rising (2009)
Movie
Bumble Jackson
Stuntmen (2009)
Movie
Lou Anne
American Cowslip (2009)
Movie
Nurse Adele
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Movie
6.07
Woman
Doggie Heaven (2008)
Movie
Self
Starz Inside: In the Gutter (2008)
Movie
Nurse
Chronic Town (2008)
Movie
String's Mother
Asylum (2008)
Movie
Marge
Killer Pad (2008)
Movie
Martha the Bookie
Chasing Robert (2007)
Movie
The Wife
The Election (2007)
Movie
Museum Guide
Homo Erectus (2007)
Movie
Miss Prin
Pledge This! (2006)
Movie
Nancy Forrester
Driftwood (2006)
Movie
Wendy O'Hara
Down the P.C.H. (2006)
Movie
Larry's mom / Larry's Mom
Surf School (2006)
Movie
Grace
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Movie
5.33
Clara
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006)
Movie
Cassandra
Bachelor Party Vegas (2006)
Movie
Mrs. Brodrick
Hoboken Hollow (2006)
Movie
Jeannie
Unbeatable Harold (2006)
Movie
Paul's Mom
My Name Is Earl (2005)
TV
7
Granny Boone
2001 Maniacs (2005)
Movie
Ma Muzzy
Drop Dead Sexy (2005)
Movie
Samantha Jones
Confessions of an Action Star (2005)
Movie
Kathleen Slansky
Hate Crime (2005)
Movie
5.83
Willow
Born Killers (2005)
Movie
Jenny Buono
The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Movie
Exotic Car Driver
Cellular (2004)
Movie
Mrs. Wells
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Movie
6.25
Repo Boss
The Almost Guys (2004)
Movie
Ms. Harding
Who's Your Daddy? (2004)
Movie
4
Laura Harrington
Dead End (2003)
Movie
Makeup Babe
Stuck on You (2003)
Movie
6.3
Tequila
Barely Legal (2003)
Movie
Margie
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Movie
5.72
Sonya the Coach
Boat Trip (2002)
Movie
Jinny Macintosh
Wish You Were Dead (2002)
Movie
Laura Crowley
Contagion (2002)
Movie
Elise
A Letter from My Father (2001)
Movie
Leather Lauren
Crossing Jordan (2001)
TV
5.95
Nurse Bautista
Say It Isn't So (2001)
Movie
Actress
Without Charlie (2001)
Movie
Libby
Attention Shoppers (2000)
Movie
Mrs. Caleron
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Movie
6.75
Mrs. Bruce
Detroit Rock City (1999)
Movie
Mrs. Cooper
Becker (1998)
TV
Lisa's Nurse
Living Out Loud (1998)
Movie
Magda
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Movie
5.5
Nurse
Perversions of Science (1997)
TV
Darla
Trading Favors (1997)
Movie
The Madame
Last Man Standing (1996)
Movie
5.93
Landlady
Kingpin (1996)
Movie
7.8
Waitress
Project: ALF (1996)
Movie
Carol Powell
Nature of the Beast (1995)
Movie
Phyliis Cardell
Trial by Fire (1995)
Movie
Bonnie
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Movie
Mrs. Neugeboren
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Movie
5.93
Inmate
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1994)
Movie
Nurse with Pills
New Nightmare (1994)
Movie
5.5
Margaret
ER (1994)
TV
5.44
Parent #2
My So-Called Life (1994)
TV
4.33
Repeat Nanny
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Movie
Rubber Rose Maid
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Movie
6
Foreman #2
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994)
Movie
Make up Artist
Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993)
Movie
Nurse Turner
Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
Movie
5.23
Anne
Frasier (1993)
TV
5.35
Operator
Three of Hearts (1993)
Movie
Rosemary
The Temp (1993)
Movie
Witness
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Movie
6.75
Celeste
Roadside Prophets (1992)
Movie
PTA Parent 3
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Movie
6
Bratty Kid's Mom
Lucky Stiff (1988)
Movie
Sally
Critters 2 (1988)
Movie
5.08
Propaganda Officer
The Running Man (1987)
Movie
5.5
Carol Miller
The Hidden (1987)
Movie
8
Librarian
Slam Dance (1987)
Movie
Employment Office Clerk
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Movie
Anemic Counter Girl
My Demon Lover (1987)
Movie
Stillwatch (1987)
Movie
Sally
Critters (1986)
Movie
5.34
Kate Simmons
The Twilight Zone (1985)
TV
7
Journalist at Rally
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Movie
5.84
Teacher
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Movie
6
Mrs. Padnick
Who's the Boss? (1984)
TV
6.03
Highway to Heaven (1984)
TV
Woman on Beach
Summer Fantasy (1984)
Movie
Receptionist at Haven
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Movie
4.89
Nurse with Telegram
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)
Movie
Secretary
Cagney & Lacey (1982)
TV
Smoking Female Prisoner
Falcon Crest (1981)
TV
A Cry for Love (1980)
Movie
Kate
The Long Riders (1980)
Movie
2nd Nurse
The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979)
Movie
Freida
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)
Movie
Parasol Lady
Goin' South (1978)
Movie
Whore
Hester Street (1975)
Movie
The Aunt
The Old World
Movie
Meemaw
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Movie
Before Memory
Movie
Joan Pierson
Carrier
Movie
Ratings
Average 5.43
Based on 4.3 Million movie and tv ratings over time
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1943-10-12 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceDetroit, United States of America
RelationshipsClayton Landey (1988-01-01 - 2003-08-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsLinda "Lin" Shaye
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