Lin Shaye
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Lin Shaye is one of the industry’s greatest chameleons. She began her career in New York City where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at Columbia University. She then segued, into what she calls “non-stop theater,” working her way up from “any closet that had a light bulb,” to Broadway and Lincoln Center.

Lin is however probably best known for her film work. After a series of smaller film roles, the Farrelly Brothers gave Shaye her first in a series of memorable characters in their 1994 hit comedy Dumb and Dumber. They went on to cast her as the infamous landlady “Mrs. Dumars” in Kingpin opposite Woody Harrelson and then as “Magda,” the sun-withered neighbor of Cameron Diaz, in their smash hit There’s Something About Mary. She is also unforgettable as the KISS-hating mom in Adam Rifkin’s Detroit Rock City and “Sonia,” the tough German/Swedish coach in Boat Trip with Cuba Gooding Jr.

In a dramatic change of pace, Lin received critical acclaim last year as “Jenny Buono” the alcoholic mother of “Angelo Buono” in The Hillside Strangler, opposite Nick Turturro and C. Thomas Howell. Look for Shaye in: 2001 Maniacs opposite Robert England, Vegas Baby with Jamie Presley, Drop Dead Sexy opposite Jason Lee, Unbeatable Harold with Dylan McDermott and Henry Winkler, Hate Crime opposite Seth Pedersen, Hoboken Hollow with C. Thomas Howell and Dennis Hopper, the highly anticipated Snakes on a Plane with Samuel L. Jackson, Hood of Horror with Snoop Dog, Pledge This! with Paris Hilton, Killer By Nature with Ron Perlman and Armand Assante, and Killer Pad directed by Robert Englund.

Filmography: 2001 Maniacs, 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys, A Cinderella Story, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Bachelor Party Vegas, Born Killers (2007), Cellular, Dead End, Detroit Rock City, Driftwood (2006), Dumb and Dumber, Hoboken Hollow, Hood of Horror, Killer Pad, Last Man Standing, Nature of the Beast, Snakes on a Plane, The Almost Guys, The Hidden, The Hidden 2, The Running Man, Wes Cravens New Nightmare, Wish You Were Dead,

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