Lin Shaye
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 12, 1943 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Credits
- 213
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).
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Known for
Insidious
2011Movie
Elise Rainier
Dumb and Dumber
1994Movie
Mrs. Neugeboren
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984Movie
Teacher
There's Something About Mary
1998Movie
Magda
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013Movie
Elise Rainier
Me, Myself & Irene
2000Movie
Mrs. Caleron
Filmography
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026Movie
Elise Rainier
Scared to Death
2026Movie
Max
1000 Women in Horror
2025Movie
Self
House of Abraham
2025Movie
Common Side Effects
2025TV
Sonia (voice)
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024Movie
Ellen
Insidious: The Red Door
2023Movie
Elise Rainier
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022Movie
Self
Remote
2022Movie
Kane
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022Movie
Jean Cole
Living with Chucky
2022Movie
Self
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022Movie
Constance Hackett
Frank and Penelope
2022Movie
Ophelia
Pines
2022Movie
Julie (voice)
Behind the Monsters
2021TV
Self
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021Movie
Mrs. Bundy
The Call
2020Movie
Edith Cranston
The Horror Crowd
2020Movie
Self
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020Movie
Mrs. Wylder
The Voices
2020Movie
The Vagabond
Dreamkatcher
2020Movie
Ruth
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020TV
Dottie Minter
Dead Talk Live
2020TV
Self - Guest
Darkness Falls
2020Movie
Angela Anderson
The Grudge
2019Movie
Faith Matheson
Gothic Harvest
2019Movie
Griselda
Ambition
2019Movie
Lady Bum
Get Gone
2019Movie
Mama
Room for Rent
2019Movie
Joyce
The Final Wish
2019Movie
Kate Hammond
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018Movie
Meredith
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018Movie
Self
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018Movie
Self
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018TV
Self
Los Angeles Overnight
2018Movie
Cousins
Insidious: The Last Key
2018Movie
Elise Rainier
All About the Money
2017Movie
Mrs. Womack
Buster's Mal Heart
2017Movie
Pauline
The Black Room
2017Movie
Miss Black
Grow House
2017Movie
Mrs. Gilliam
Mountain Top
2017Movie
Muriel Miller
Abattoir
2016Movie
Allie
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016Movie
Old Paulina Zander
The Midnight Man
2016Movie
Anna
Director's Cut
2016Movie
Captain Wheeler
Texas Heart
2016Movie
Mrs. Smith
Jack Goes Home
2016Movie
Teresa
Tales of Halloween
2015Movie
Lynn's Mother
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015Movie
Helen Keller
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015Movie
Elise Rainier
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015Movie
The Grand Lady
Grace
2014Movie
Helen
Ouija
2014Movie
Paulina Zander
Lost Time
2014Movie
Mysterious Woman
The Signal
2014Movie
Mirabelle
All American Christmas Carol
2013Movie
Barbara Belnap
Big Ass Spider!
2013Movie
Mrs. Jefferson
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013TV
Elise
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013Movie
Elise Rainier
Crazy Kind of Love
2013Movie
Denise Mack
Noobz
2013Movie
Mrs. Theodore
EastSiders
2012TV
Diane
Life's an Itch
2012Movie
Gloria
Matchmaker Santa
2012Movie
Debbie
FDR: American Badass!
2012Movie
Eleanor Roosevelt
3 Days of Normal
2012Movie
May
Jewtopia
2012Movie
Dr. Sutton
The Three Stooges
2012Movie
Nurse Crotchet
Waffle Hut
2012Movie
Jerrie Wolf
Rosewood Lane
2011Movie
Mrs. Hawthorne
Chillerama
2011Movie
Baglady / Nurse Maleva
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011Movie
Dody
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011Movie
Insidious
2011Movie
Elise Rainier
Take Me Home
2011Movie
Jill
Sedona
2011Movie
Claire
Goldberg - P.I.
2011Movie
Violet
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010Movie
Zelda
The Land of the Astronauts
2010Movie
Next Stop Murder
2010Movie
Detective Reeson
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010Movie
Mrs. Rawlings
Small Town Saturday Night
2010Movie
Phyllis Ryan
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010Movie
Self
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010Movie
Bonnie Johnson
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010Movie
Granny Boone
The Penthouse
2010Movie
Frances
Killer by Nature
2010Movie
Leona
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010Movie
The Lush
Dark Moon Rising
2009Movie
Sunny
Stuntmen
2009Movie
Bumble Jackson
American Cowslip
2009Movie
Lou Anne
My Sister's Keeper
2009Movie
Nurse Adele
Doggie Heaven
2008Movie
Woman
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008Movie
Self
Chronic Town
2008Movie
Nurse
Asylum
2008Movie
String's Mother
Killer Pad
2008Movie
Marge
Private Practice
2007TV
Mrs. Taylor
Chasing Robert
2007Movie
Martha the Bookie
The Election
2007Movie
The Wife
Homo Erectus
2007Movie
Museum Guide
Pledge This!
2007Movie
Miss Prin
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007Movie
Self
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007Movie
Self
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007Movie
Self
Driftwood
2006Movie
Nancy Forrester
Surf School
2006Movie
Larry's Mom
Down the P.C.H.
2006Movie
Wendy O'Hara
Snakes on a Plane
2006Movie
Grace
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006Movie
Clara
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006Movie
Cassandra
Hoboken Hollow
2006Movie
Mrs. Brodrick
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006Movie
Self
Unbeatable Harold
2006Movie
Jeannie
Made in Hollywood
2005TV
Self
My Name Is Earl
2005TV
Paul's Mom
2001 Maniacs
2005Movie
Granny Boone
Drop Dead Sexy
2005Movie
Ma Muzzy
Confessions of an Action Star
2005Movie
Samantha Jones
Hate Crime
2005Movie
Kathleen Slansky
Born Killers
2005Movie
Willow
The Hillside Strangler
2004Movie
Jenny Buono
Cellular
2004Movie
Exotic Car Driver
A Cinderella Story
2004Movie
Mrs. Wells
The Almost Guys
2004Movie
Repo Boss
Who's Your Daddy?
2004Movie
Ms. Harding
Dead End
2003Movie
Laura Harrington
Stuck on You
2003Movie
Makeup Babe
Barely Legal
2003Movie
Tequlia
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003Movie
Margie
ManFast
2003Movie
Marge
Boat Trip
2002Movie
Sonya the Coach
Wish You Were Dead
2002Movie
Jinny Macintosh
Contagion
2002Movie
Laura Crowley
A Letter from My Father
2001Movie
Elise
Crossing Jordan
2001TV
Leather Lauren
Say It Isn't So
2001Movie
Nurse Bautista
Without Charlie
2001Movie
Attention Shoppers
2000Movie
Libby
Me, Myself & Irene
2000Movie
Mrs. Caleron
Detroit Rock City
1999Movie
Mrs. Bruce
Becker
1998TV
Mrs. Cooper
Living Out Loud
1998Movie
Lisa's Nurse
There's Something About Mary
1998Movie
Magda
Breakfast with Einstein
1998Movie
Miss Desmond
Perversions of Science
1997TV
Nurse
Trading Favors
1997Movie
Darla
Last Man Standing
1996Movie
The Madame
Arli$$
1996TV
Shurja
Kingpin
1996Movie
Landlady
Project: ALF
1996Movie
Waitress
Nature of the Beast
1995Movie
Carol Powell
Trial by Fire
1995Movie
Phyliis Cardell
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995Movie
Bonnie
Dumb and Dumber
1994Movie
Mrs. Neugeboren
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994Movie
Inmate
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994Movie
Nurse with Pills
ER
1994TV
Margaret
My So-Called Life
1994TV
Parent #2
Corrina, Corrina
1994Movie
Repeat Nanny
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994Movie
Rubber Rose Maid
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994Movie
Foreman #2
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993Movie
Make up Artist
Frasier
1993TV
Anne
The Hidden II
1993Movie
Carol Miller (archive footage)
Amityville: A New Generation
1993Movie
Nurse Turner
Three of Hearts
1993Movie
Operator
The Temp
1993Movie
Rosemary
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993Movie
Witness
Roadside Prophets
1992Movie
Celeste
Critters 3
1991Movie
Sal (archive footage)
Pump Up the Volume
1990Movie
PTA Parent #3
Book of Love
1990Movie
Mrs. Flynn
Life Goes On
1989TV
Parent #2
Lucky Stiff
1988Movie
Bratty Kid's Mom
Critters 2
1988Movie
Sal
The Running Man
1987Movie
Propaganda Officer
The Hidden
1987Movie
Carol Miller
Mistress
1987Movie
Woman Customer
Slam Dance
1987Movie
Librarian
My Demon Lover
1987Movie
Anemic Counter Girl
Extreme Prejudice
1987Movie
Employment Office Clerk
Stillwatch
1987Movie
Critters
1986Movie
Sally
The Twilight Zone
1985TV
Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
Brewster's Millions
1985Movie
Journalist at Rally
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984Movie
Teacher
Who's the Boss?
1984TV
Mrs. Padnick
Highway to Heaven
1984TV
Lila Barnes
Summer Fantasy
1984Movie
Woman on Beach
Why Me?
1984Movie
Alone in the Dark
1982Movie
Receptionist at Haven
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982Movie
Nurse with Telegram
Cagney & Lacey
1982TV
Secretary
Falcon Crest
1981TV
Smoking Female Prisoner
A Cry for Love
1980Movie
The Long Riders
1980Movie
Kate
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979Movie
2nd Nurse
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979Movie
Freida
Goin' South
1978Movie
Parasol Lady
A Secret Space
1977Movie
Amy
Sex and the Married Woman
1977Movie
Sandra
Eight Is Enough
1977TV
Band Member
Hester Street
1975Movie
Whore
Mascotland
Movie
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Movie
Nurse
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Movie
Meemaw
Jackson's Hole
Movie
Netter
The Old World
Movie
The Aunt (voice)
Devoted
Movie
Aunt Dottie
Before Memory
Movie
The Bench
Movie
Carrier
Movie
Joan Pierson