Lin Shaye

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Oct 12, 1943 (81 years old)

Lin Shaye

Known For

Scared to Death
1h 38m
Movie 2024

Scared to Death

A group of filmmakers attend a séance at an abandoned children's orphanage in order to do research for a movie... that's their first mistake.

Insidious: The Red Door
1h 47m
Movie 2023

Insidious: The Red Door

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2h 10m
Movie 2022

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and more.

Remote
0h 11m
Movie 2022

Remote

Two young siblings make an extraterrestrial new friend, just as their family-owned pawn shop is attacked by criminals.

We Are Gathered Here Today
1h 14m
Movie 2022

We Are Gathered Here Today

The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his family members are forced to say their goodbyes via video conferencing.

Living with Chucky
1h 40m
Movie 2022

Living with Chucky

A filmmaker who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll seeks out the other families surrounding the Child's Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the, "Chucky" family.

Frank and Penelope
1h 52m
Movie 2022

Frank and Penelope

A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.

Pines
1h 15m
Movie 2022

Pines

A hospice nurse is horrified to discover that her boyfriend owes a debt to a group of ruthless predators, which quickly ruins both of their lives.

Behind the Monsters
TV Show 2021

Behind the Monsters

A docu-series exploring how Chucky, Michael Myers, Pinhead and more came to be icons of the horror genre.

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
1h 50m
Movie 2021

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.

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.

Acting

2024
Scared to Death
2023
Insidious: The Red Door
2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Remote
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
Living with Chucky
2022
Frank and Penelope
2022
Pines
2021
Behind the Monsters
2021
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2020
The Call
2020
The Horror Crowd
2020
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
The Voices
2020
Dreamkatcher
2020
Dead Talk Live
2020
Darkness Falls
2019
The Grudge
2019
Gothic Harvest
2019
Ambition
2019
Get Gone
2019
Room for Rent
2019
The Final Wish
2018
Herbert West: Reanimator
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
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
The Midnight Man
2016
Director's Cut
2016
Texas Heart
2016
Jack Goes Home
2015
Tales of Halloween
2015
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2013
All American Christmas Carol
2013
Big Ass Spider!
2013
Crazy Kind of Love
2012
Life's an Itch
2012
Matchmaker Santa
2012
3 Days of Normal
2012
The Three Stooges
2012
Waffle Hut
2011
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
Insidious
2011
Sedona
2011
Goldberg - P.I.
2010
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
Next Stop Murder
2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2009
Stuntmen
2009
American Cowslip
2008
Doggie Heaven
2008
Chronic Town
2008
Asylum
2008
Killer Pad
1995
Nature of the Beast
1995
Trial by Fire
1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1994
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
New Nightmare
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1993
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
The Temp
1991
Critters 3
1990
Pump Up the Volume
1987
The Running Man
1987
Mistress
1987
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Stillwatch
1986
Critters

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