Lin Shaye
Acting
1943-10-12 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersInsidious: Out of the Further
2026 · Movie
Scared to Death
2026 · Movie
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Movie
House of Abraham
2025 · Movie
Common Side Effects
2025 · Series
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024 · Movie
Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · Movie
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022 · Movie
Remote
2022 · Movie
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022 · Movie
Living with Chucky
2022 · Movie
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022 · Movie
Frank and Penelope
2022 · Movie
Pines
2022 · Movie
Behind the Monsters
2021 · Series
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021 · Movie
The Call
2020 · Movie
The Horror Crowd
2020 · Movie
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020 · Movie
The Voices
2020 · Movie
Dreamkatcher
2020 · Movie
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020 · Series
Dead Talk Live
2020 · Series
Darkness Falls
2020 · Movie
The Grudge
2019 · Movie
Gothic Harvest
2019 · Movie
Ambition
2019 · Movie
Get Gone
2019 · Movie
Room for Rent
2019 · Movie
The Final Wish
2019 · Movie
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018 · Movie
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018 · Movie
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018 · Movie
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · Series
Los Angeles Overnight
2018 · Movie
Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · Movie
All About the Money
2017 · Movie
Buster's Mal Heart
2017 · Movie
The Black Room
2017 · Movie
Grow House
2017 · Movie
Mountain Top
2017 · Movie
Abattoir
2016 · Movie
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · Movie
The Midnight Man
2016 · Movie
Director's Cut
2016 · Movie
Texas Heart
2016 · Movie
Jack Goes Home
2016 · Movie
Tales of Halloween
2015 · Movie
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015 · Movie
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · Movie
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015 · Movie
Grace
2014 · Movie
Ouija
2014 · Movie
Lost Time
2014 · Movie
The Signal
2014 · Movie
All American Christmas Carol
2013 · Movie
Big Ass Spider!
2013 · Movie
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013 · Series
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · Movie
Crazy Kind of Love
2013 · Movie
Noobz
2013 · Movie
EastSiders
2012 · Series
Life's an Itch
2012 · Movie
Matchmaker Santa
2012 · Movie
FDR: American Badass!
2012 · Movie
3 Days of Normal
2012 · Movie
Jewtopia
2012 · Movie
The Three Stooges
2012 · Movie
Waffle Hut
2012 · Movie
Rosewood Lane
2011 · Movie
Chillerama
2011 · Movie
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011 · Movie
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011 · Movie
Insidious
2011 · Movie
Take Me Home
2011 · Movie
Sedona
2011 · Movie
Goldberg - P.I.
2011 · Movie
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010 · Movie
The Land of the Astronauts
2010 · Movie
Next Stop Murder
2010 · Movie
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010 · Movie
Small Town Saturday Night
2010 · Movie
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Movie
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010 · Movie
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010 · Movie
The Penthouse
2010 · Movie
Killer by Nature
2010 · Movie
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010 · Movie
Dark Moon Rising
2009 · Movie
Stuntmen
2009 · Movie
American Cowslip
2009 · Movie
My Sister's Keeper
2009 · Movie
Doggie Heaven
2008 · Movie
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008 · Movie
Chronic Town
2008 · Movie
Asylum
2008 · Movie
Killer Pad
2008 · Movie
Private Practice
2007 · Series
Chasing Robert
2007 · Movie
The Election
2007 · Movie
Homo Erectus
2007 · Movie
Pledge This!
2007 · Movie
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007 · Movie
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007 · Movie
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007 · Movie
Driftwood
2006 · Movie
Surf School
2006 · Movie
Down the P.C.H.
2006 · Movie
Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Movie
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006 · Movie
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006 · Movie
Hoboken Hollow
2006 · Movie
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Movie
Unbeatable Harold
2006 · Movie
Made in Hollywood
2005 · Series
My Name Is Earl
2005 · Series
2001 Maniacs
2005 · Movie
Drop Dead Sexy
2005 · Movie
Confessions of an Action Star
2005 · Movie
Hate Crime
2005 · Movie
Born Killers
2005 · Movie
The Hillside Strangler
2004 · Movie
Cellular
2004 · Movie
A Cinderella Story
2004 · Movie
The Almost Guys
2004 · Movie
Who's Your Daddy?
2004 · Movie
Dead End
2003 · Movie
Stuck on You
2003 · Movie
Barely Legal
2003 · Movie
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003 · Movie
ManFast
2003 · Movie
Boat Trip
2002 · Movie
Wish You Were Dead
2002 · Movie
Contagion
2002 · Movie
A Letter from My Father
2001 · Movie
Crossing Jordan
2001 · Series
Say It Isn't So
2001 · Movie
Without Charlie
2001 · Movie
Attention Shoppers
2000 · Movie
Me, Myself & Irene
2000 · Movie
Detroit Rock City
1999 · Movie
Becker
1998 · Series
Living Out Loud
1998 · Movie
There's Something About Mary
1998 · Movie
Breakfast with Einstein
1998 · Movie
Perversions of Science
1997 · Series
Trading Favors
1997 · Movie
Last Man Standing
1996 · Movie
Arli$$
1996 · Series
Kingpin
1996 · Movie
Project: ALF
1996 · Movie
Nature of the Beast
1995 · Movie
Trial by Fire
1995 · Movie
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995 · Movie
Dumb and Dumber
1994 · Movie
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994 · Movie
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
My So-Called Life
1994 · Series
Corrina, Corrina
1994 · Movie
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 · Movie
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994 · Movie
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
The Hidden II
1993 · Movie
Amityville: A New Generation
1993 · Movie
Three of Hearts
1993 · Movie
The Temp
1993 · Movie
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993 · Movie
Roadside Prophets
1992 · Movie
Critters 3
1991 · Movie
Pump Up the Volume
1990 · Movie
Book of Love
1990 · Movie
Life Goes On
1989 · Series
Lucky Stiff
1988 · Movie
Critters 2
1988 · Movie
The Running Man
1987 · Movie
The Hidden
1987 · Movie
Mistress
1987 · Movie
Slam Dance
1987 · Movie
Extreme Prejudice
1987 · Movie
My Demon Lover
1987 · Movie
Stillwatch
1987 · Movie
Critters
1986 · Movie
The Twilight Zone
1985 · Series
Brewster's Millions
1985 · Movie
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Movie
Who's the Boss?
1984 · Series
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Series
Summer Fantasy
1984 · Movie
Why Me?
1984 · Movie
Alone in the Dark
1982 · Movie
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982 · Movie
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Series
Falcon Crest
1981 · Series
A Cry for Love
1980 · Movie
The Long Riders
1980 · Movie
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979 · Movie
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979 · Movie
Goin' South
1978 · Movie
A Secret Space
1977 · Movie
Sex and the Married Woman
1977 · Movie
Eight Is Enough
1977 · Series
Hester Street
1975 · Movie
Mascotland
Movie
The Bench
Movie
Before Memory
Movie
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Movie
Jackson's Hole
Movie
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Movie
The Old World
Movie
Carrier
Movie
Devoted
Movie