Lin Shaye Biography

Linda Shaye, popularly known as Lin Shaye, is an American film, theater, and television actress, born on October 12, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. She is famously known for her career of over forty years in the acting industry. She has appeared in many featured films as Scream Queen on the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Insidious, Dead End, 2001 Maniacs, and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Alone in the Dark, and Amityville: A New Generation.

Lin Shaye Age

Lin is 78 years old as of 2021, she was born Linda Shaye on October 12, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on October 12, every year and her birth sign is Libra.

Lin Shaye Height

Lin stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.57 meters). However, details regarding her other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.

Lin Shaye Weight

Lin Weighs 58 kilograms (127.8 Ibs). Known for her beautiful smile and charming personality, Lin has light brown eyes and her hair color is blond. Her gorgeous eye color is one of her most striking features.

Lin Shaye Education

Lin is a highly educated and qualified person. She studied acting at the University of Michigan before she moved to New York to appear in Off-Broadway productions. In 1977, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.

Lin Shaye Family

Lin is the daughter of Dorothy Katz (mother), a homemaker, and Max Mendle Shaye (father), a painter and supermarket owner. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Our efforts to find out more about her family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. It is also not known if she has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.

Lin Shaye Husband

Lin has been married twice. In 1968, her first husband died. She married her second husband actor Clayton Landey and later in 2003, the couple divorced. Nonetheless, further information regarding her family in detail is currently under review and will be updated as soon as it is available.

Lin Shaye Children

Lin and his husband actor Clayton have a son; Lee J. Landey, born in 1989. Shaye has done a very good job of maintaining her personal and professional life. She is a good wife and also a loving mother.

Lin Shaye Net Worth

Lin has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars as of 2021. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as an Actress. Through her various sources of income, she has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Lin Shaye Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Shaye.

Lin Shaye Wiki

• Full Names: Linda Shaye.
• Popular As: Lin Shaye.
• Gender: Female.
• Occupation / Profession: Actress.
• Nationality: American.
• Race / Ethnicity: White.
• Religion: Christian.
• Sexual Orientation: Straight.

Lin Shaye Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 78 Years Old.
• Zodiac Sign: Libra.
• Date of Birth: October 12, 1943.
• Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan.
• Birthday: October 12th.

Lin Shaye Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Pending Update.
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 6 inches (1.57 meters).
• Weight: 58 kilograms (127.8 Ibs).
• Eye Color: Light Brown.
• Hair Color: Blonde.
• Shoe Size: Pending Update.
• Dress Size: Pending Update.
• Breast Size: *Pending Update.
• Waist Size: Pending Update.
• Hip Size: Pending Update.

Lin Shaye Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Max Mendle Shaye.
• Mother: Dorothy Katz.
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Pending Update.
• Marital Status: Not Known.
• Husband/Spouse: Was Married to Clayton Landey.
• Dating / Boyfriend: Not Known.
• Children: Son (Lee J. Landey).

Lin Shaye Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $3 million dollars as of 2021.
• Salary: Pending Update.
• Source of Income: Career as an Actress.

Lin Shaye Career

In 1975, Lin made her film debut with a little job in Hester Street, trailed by little jobs in a few motion pictures and network shows. In 1978, she showed up in the Jack Nicholson-coordinated Western Goin’ South. “I got a call saying, ‘Mr. Nicholson needs you in Mexico for about fourteen days for this little job called The Parasol Lady’. It was so much fun.” She has since shown up in an extensive number of character jobs.

From 1980 until 1996, Lin has shown up in four movies by executive Walter Hill: The Long Riders, Brewster’s Millions, Extreme Prejudice, and Last Man Standing. In 1984, she played an instructor in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The movie was circulated by New Line Cinema, the organization established by the performing artist’s more seasoned sibling Robert Shaye. She has conceded the family association helped her a bit. “My sibling stated, ‘Put my sister in your film!'”

In 1994, Lin had her breakout parody job of Mrs. Nuegeboren in the Farrelly Brothers’ Dumb and Dumber. The film was discharged on December 16, 1994. Regardless of accepting blended surveys from faultfinders, it was a business achievement and built up a clique following in the years since its discharge.

The Farrellys at that point in this manner give her a role as Woody Harrelson’s frightful landowner in Kingpin. Afterward, again giving her a job as Cameron Diaz’s character’s overtanned neighbor Magda in 1998 hit There’s Something About Mary. The Farrellys stated, ‘We need her to resemble an old calfskin bag,’ ” reviewed Lin. “It was four hours each time they put on the cosmetics.”

The film was a sleeper hit and was the most noteworthy netting parody of 1998 in North America just as the fourth-most noteworthy earning film of the year. For her execution, Lin was selected for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress Comedy.

Lin pursued this with 1999’s Detroit Rock City as a concerned mother pursuing an individual war against the band Kiss. In 2003, she showed up nearby Cuba Gooding Jr. what’s more, Horatio Sanz in Boat Trip as Sonya, a horny tanning mentor who starts stalking Sanz’s character.

That equivalent year Lin co-featured with Ray Wise and Alexandra Holden in the religion blood and gore movie Dead End as Laura Harrington, and as Jenny Buono, the mother of 1970s Los Angeles sequential executioner Angelo Buono in The Hillside Strangler. For her job in Dead End, she got positive surveys and was designated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2005, Lin showed up in the film 2001 Maniacs as Granny Boone and again in the spin-off 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. The following year she had a supporting job in the spine-chiller Snakes on a Plane, playing Grace, the senior airline steward who goes about as the flight’s purser.

In 2007, Lin showed up in the short movies Sponsored By, Under The Gun, Midnight Snack, Time Upon a Once, Old Home Boyz, Backseat Driving Test, and The Yes Men which were coordinated by competitors on the unscripted TV drama On the Lot.

In 2011, Lin played medium Elise, a supporting job, in the blood and guts movie Insidious. “It terrified the tar out of me,” said Shaye. “I read it in bed, and when I completed it, I took it first floor and secured it in the wardrobe. I truly was chilled deep down by the story.” The film was discharged on April 1, 2011, and got positive surveys.

It earned an aggregate of $97,009,150 around the world. It was the most gainful film of 2011. Lin got positive surveys and was assigned for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress, and a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On November 19, 2012, it was formally declared that Lin, Patrick Wilson, and Rose Byrne would repeat their jobs from the principal film. The film was discharged on September 13, 2013. It got blended surveys and was a film industry achievement.

Lin returned as Elise, this time in the main job, in the third and fourth portions of the Insidious establishment, Insidious: Chapter 3 and Insidious: The Last Key. Talking about the job in the third film, Lin said “Elise has turned into this kind of boss in this portion, I can’t disclose to you how much fun that was for me.

I’m not taking names!” Insidious: Chapter 3 got a blended reaction from commentators, and Lin’s execution was generally welcomed by faultfinders and gatherings of people.

Spoiled Tomatoes records a 59% endorsement rating, with the site’s basic agreement perusing “Deceptive: Chapter 3 isn’t as unnerving as the first, in spite of the fact that it flaunts astonishing topical profundity and is excited by another fine execution from Lin.”

An essayist from The Wrap opined that Shaye “sparkles” in the film. The Oakland Post Online stated, “Lin can give the film the greater part of its heart.

A large number of the loathsomeness scenes depend on her to be either the quieting voice or the boss courageous woman, and Lin assumes both of those jobs impeccably,” likewise including, “Guileful: Chapter 3 could have been a calamity, however on account of some truly frightening minutes and veteran acting from Lin Shaye, the film can be generally agreeable.

Lin Shaye Filmography

Movies

• 2019 –  Jackson’s Hole
• 2019 –  Grudge
• 2019 –  Room for Rent

• 2019 –  Bayou Tales
• 2018 –  Insidious: The Last Key
• 2018 –  Los Angeles Overnight

• 2018 –  Gothic Harvest
• 2018 –  The Final Wish
• 2018 –  Killing Winston Jones

• 2017 –  Grow House
• 2017  – The Black Room
• 2016 –  Abattoir

• 2016 –  Buster’s Mal Heart
• 2016 –  The Midnight Man
• 2016 –  Ouija: Origin of Evil

• 2015 –  Don Quixote
• 2015 –  Insidious: Chapter 3
• 2015 –  Tales of Halloween

• 2015 –  Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
• 2014 –  The Signal
• 2014 –  Grace: The Possession

• 2014 –  Ouija
• 2013 –  Insidious: Chapter 2
• 2013 –  Crazy Kind of Love

• 2013 –  Big Ass Spider!
• 2012 –  The Three Stooges
• 2012 –  FDR: American Badass!

• 2012 –  Jewtopia
• 2011 –  Insidious
• 2011 –  Sedona: The Motion Picture

• 2011 –  A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
• 2011 –  Chillerama
• 2011 –  Take Me Home

• 2011 –  Rosewood Lane
• 2010 –  Small Town Saturday Night
• 2010 – 2001 –  Maniacs: Field of Screams

• 2010 – Killer by Nature
• 2009 – My Sister’s Keeper
• 2009 – American Cowslip

• 2008 – Killer Pad
• 2008 – Asylum
• 2007 – Homo Erectus

• 2007 –  Kush
• 2006 – Unbeatable Harold
• 2006 –  Bachelor Party Vegas

• 2006 –  Hood of Horror
• 2006 –  Snakes on a Plane
• 2006 – Driftwood

• 2006 – National Lampoon’s Pledge This!
• 2006 – Hoboken Hollow
• 2005 – Hate Crime

• 2005 –  Confessions of an Action Star
• 2005 – 2001 Maniacs
• 2005 – Drop Dead Sexy

• 2004 – The Hillside Strangler
• 2004 – The Latin Lover
• 2004 –  A Cinderella Story

• 2004 – Cellular
• 2003 – Who’s Your Daddy?
• 2003 –  National Lampoon’s Barely Legal

• 2003 – Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
• 2003 – Dead End
• 2003 –  Stuck on You

• 2002 –  Wish You Were Dead
• 2002 –  Boat Trip
• 2001 – Say It Isn’t So

• 1999 –  Detroit Rock City
• 1998 – Living Out Loud
• 1998 – There’s Something About Mary

• 1996 – Kingpin
• 1996 – Last Man Standing
• 1995 –  The Nature of the Beast

• 1994 –  Corrina, Corrina
• 1994 –  Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
• 1994 –  Dumb & Dumber

• 1993 –  Loaded Weapon 1
• 1993 – The Temp
• 1993 –  Three of Hearts

• 1993 – Amityville: A New Generation
• 1993 – Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
• 1992 – Roadside Prophets

• 1990 – Book of Love
• 1990 – Pump Up the Volume
• 1988 – Critters 2: The Main Course

• 1988 – Lucky Stiff
• 1987 –  Extreme Prejudice
• 1987 – Slam Dance

• 1987 – The Hidden
• 1987 – The Running Man
• 1986 – Critters

• 1985 – Brewster’s Millions
• 1984 – Summer Fantasy
• 1984 – A Nightmare on Elm Street

• 1984 – Why Me?
• 1982 – Alone in the Dark
• 1982 – Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again

• 1980 – The Long Riders
• 1980 – A Cry for Love
• 1979 – The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

• 1979 – The Seeding of Sarah Burns
• 1978 – Goin’ South

• 1977 – Sex and the Married Woman
• 1975 – Hester Street

Television Shows

• 2016 – Still the King
• 2016 – American Gothic
• 2016 –  Grip and Electric

• 2015 – Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight
• 2013 –  Private Practice
• 2009 – ER

• 2007 –  Dirty Sexy Money
• 2006 -My Name Is Earl
• 2004 –  Crossing Jordan

• 1998 –  Becker
• 1997 –  Perversions of Science
• 1996 – Frasier

• 1994 – My So-Called Life
• 1993 –  Sisters
• 1991 – Life Goes On

• 1988 –  Highway to Heaven
• 1987 – Who’s the Boss?
• 1986 – Cagney & Lacey

• 1986 – Falcon Crest
• 1985 – The New Twilight Zone
• 1977 –  Eight Is Enough

Frequently Asked Questions About Lin Shaye

Who is Lin Shaye?

Lin is an American film, theater, and television actress. She is famously known for her career of over forty years in the acting industry. She has appeared in many featured films as Scream Queen on the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Insidious, Dead End, 2001 Maniacs, and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Alone in the Dark, and Amityville: A New Generation.

How old is Lin Shaye?

Lin is an American national born on October 12, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan.

How tall is Lin Shaye? 

Lin stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.57 meters).

Is Lin Shaye married? 

Lin has been married twice. In 1968, her first husband died. She married her second husband actor Clayton Landey and later in 2003, the couple divorced.

How much is Lin Shaye worth? 

Lin has a net worth of $3 million dollars as of 2021. This amount has been accrued from her leading roles in the entertainment industry.

How much does Lin Shaye make? 

According to our reliable sources, Lin’s annual salary is currently under review. Nevertheless, we are keeping tabs and will update you once this information is available.

Where does Lin Shaye live?

Because of security reasons, Lin has not shared her precise location of residence. We will update this information if we get the location and images of her house.

Is Lin Shaye dead or alive?

Lin is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is Lin Shaye Now?

Lin is still an active participant in the creative entertainment industry. She has appeared in many featured films as Scream Queen on the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Insidious, Dead End, 2001 Maniacs, and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Alone in the Dark, and Amityville: A New Generation.

Lin Shaye Contacts

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• Website: Pending Update.

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