Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12 Oct, 1943 (81 years old)
Lin Shaye
Biography
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in horror franchises, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, and Insidious. Shaye 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.
Known For
Acting
2023
Insidious: The Red Door
2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Living with Chucky
2022
Frank and Penelope
2021
Behind the Monsters
2021
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2020
The Call
2020
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
The Voices
2020
Dreamkatcher
2020
Darkness Falls
2019
The Grudge
2019
Gothic Harvest
2019
Ambition
2019
Get Gone
2019
Room for Rent
2019
The Final Wish
2018
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
2017
All About the Money
2017
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
The Black Room
2017
Grow House
2017
Mountain Top
2016
Abattoir
2016
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
The Midnight Man
2016
Director's Cut
2016
Jack Goes Home
2015
Tales of Halloween
2015
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2014
Ouija
2014
Lost Time
2014
The Signal
2013
All American Christmas Carol
2013
Big Ass Spider!
2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Crazy Kind of Love
2013
Noobz
2012
Life's an Itch
2012
Matchmaker Santa
2012
FDR: American Badass!
2012
3 Days of Normal
2012
Jewtopia
2012
The Three Stooges
2011
Rosewood Lane
2011
Chillerama
2011
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
Insidious
2011
Take Me Home
2011
Sedona
2010
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
Black Limousine
2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
The Penthouse
2009
Dark Moon Rising
2009
American Cowslip
2009
My Sister's Keeper
2008
Asylum
2008
Killer Pad
2007
Homo Erectus
2006
Pledge This!
2006
Driftwood
2006
Surf School
2006
Snakes on a Plane
2006
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
Hoboken Hollow
2005
2001 Maniacs
2005
Drop Dead Sexy
2005
Confessions of an Action Star
2004
The Hillside Strangler
2004
Cellular
2004
A Cinderella Story
2004
The Almost Guys
2004
Who's Your Daddy?
2003
Dead End
2003
Stuck on You
2003
Barely Legal
2003
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2002
Boat Trip
2002
Wish You Were Dead
2001
Say It Isn't So
2000
Me, Myself & Irene
1999
Detroit Rock City
1998
Living Out Loud
1998
There's Something About Mary
1996
Last Man Standing
1996
Kingpin
1996
Project: ALF
1995
Nature of the Beast
1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1994
Dumb and Dumber
1994
New Nightmare
1994
Corrina, Corrina
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1993
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
Three of Hearts
1993
The Temp
1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1992
Roadside Prophets
1991
Critters 3
1990
Pump Up the Volume
1990
Book of Love
1988
Critters 2
1987
The Running Man
1987
The Hidden
1987
Slam Dance
1987
Extreme Prejudice
1987
My Demon Lover
1986
Critters
1985
Brewster's Millions
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
Summer Fantasy
1982
Alone in the Dark
1982
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1980
The Long Riders
1978
Goin' South
1975
Hester Street