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Lin Shaye

English
Filmography

2001 Maniacs

2005
as Granny Boone

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

2010
as Granny Boone

3 Days of Normal

2012
as May

A Cinderella Story

2004
as Mrs. Wells

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

2011
as Dody

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984
as Teacher

Abattoir

2016
as Allie

All About the Money

2017
as Mrs. Womack

All American Christmas Carol

2013
as Barbara Belnap

Alone in the Dark

1982
as Receptionist at Haven

American Gothic (2016)

2016
as Lila

Amityville: A New Generation

1993
as Nurse Turner

Bachelor Party Vegas

2006
as Cassandra

Big Ass Spider!

2013
as Mrs. Jefferson

Boat Trip

2002
as Sonya the Coach

Brewster's Millions

1985
as Journalist at Rally

Buster's Mal Heart

2017
as Pauline

Cellular

2004
as Exotic Car Driver

Chillerama

2011
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva

Contagion

2002
as Laura Crowley

Corrina, Corrina

1994
as Repeat Nanny

Crazy Kind of Love

2013
as Denise Mack

Critters

1986
as Sally

Critters 2

1988
as Sally

Dark Moon Rising

2009
as Sunny

Darkness Falls

2020
as Angela Anderson

Dead End

2003
as Laura Harrington

Detroit Rock City

1999
as Mrs. Bruce

Director's Cut

2018
as Captain Wheeler

Doggie Heaven

2008

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

2015
as The Grand Lady

Down the P.C.H.

2006
as Wendy O'Hara

Dr. 420

2012
as Dr. 420

Dreamkatcher

2020
as Ruth

Driftwood

2006
as Nancy Forrester

Drop Dead Sexy

2005
as Ma Muzzy

Dumb and Dumber

1994
as Mrs. Neugeboren

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

2003
as Margie

FDR: American Badass!

2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Farewell Mr. Kringle

2010
as Zelda

Frank and Penelope

2022
as Ophelia

Get Gone

2019
as Mama Maxwell

Goin' South

1978
as Parasol Lady

Goldberg - P.I.

2011
as Violet

Gothic Harvest

2018
as Griselda

Grace

2014
as Helen

Grow House

2017
as Mrs. Gilliam

Hate Crime

2006
as Kathleen Slansky

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

2015
as Helen Keller

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

1994
as Inmate

Hester Street

1975
as Whore

Hoboken Hollow

2005
as Mrs. Brodrick

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2023
as Lin Shaye

Hood of Horror

2006
as Clara

I Was a Teenage Werebear

2011

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

1994
as Foreman #2

Insidious

2010
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 2

2013
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 3

2015
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: The Last Key

2018
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: The Red Door

2023
as Elise

Jack Goes Home

2016
as Teresa

Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again

1982
as Nurse with Telegram

Jewtopia

2012
as Dr. Sutton

Killer Pad

2008
as Marge

Killer by Nature

2010
as Leona

Kingpin

1996
as Landlady

Last Man Standing

1996
as The Madame

Life's an Itch

2012
as Gloria

Living Out Loud

1998
as Lisa's Nurse

Lost Time

2014
as Mysterious Woman

Lucky Stiff

1988
as Bratty Kid's Mom

Matchmaker Santa

2012
as Debbie

My Demon Lover

1987
as Anemic Counter Girl

My Sister's Keeper

2009
as Nurse Adele

National Lampoon's Barely Legal

2005
as Tequila

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

1993
as Witness

Nature of the Beast

1995
as Carol Powell

Next Stop Murder

2010
as Detective Reeson

Noobz

2013
as Mrs. Theodore

Ouija

2014
as Paulina Zander

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016
as Paulina Zander

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

2020
as Dottie Minter

Pledge This!

2006
as Miss Prin

Project: ALF

1996
as Waitress

Roadside Prophets

1992
as Celeste

Room for Rent

2019
as Joyce

Rosewood Lane

2011
as Mrs. Hawthorne

Say It Isn't So

2001
as Nurse Bautista

Sedona

2012
as Claire

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

1995
as Bonnie

Slam Dance

1987
as Librarian

Small Town Saturday Night

2010
as Phyllis Ryan

Snakes on a Plane

2006
as Grace

Stillwatch

1987

Stuck on You

2003
as Makeup Babe

Stuntmen

2009
as Bumble Jackson

Summer Fantasy

1984
as Woman on Beach

Surf School

2006
as Larry's mom

Take Me Home

2011
as Jill

Tales of Halloween

2015
as Lynn's Mother

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

2021
as Mrs. Bundy

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue

2010
as Mrs. Rawlings

The Almost Guys

2004
as Repo Boss

The Black Room

2016
as Miss Black

The Call

2020
as Edith Cranston

The Election

2007
as The Wife

The Final Wish

2019
as Kate Hammond

The Grudge

2020
as Faith Matheson

The Hidden

1987
as Carol Miller

The Hillside Strangler

2004
as Jenny Buono

The Horror Crowd

2020
as Lin Shaye

The Long Riders

1980
as Kate

The Midnight Man

2016
as Anna

The Running Man

1987
as Propaganda Officer

The Signal

2014
as Mirabelle

The Temp

1993
as Rosemary

The Three Stooges

2012
as Nurse Crotchet

The Voices

2020
as Vagabond

The seeding of Sarah Burns

1979
as 2nd Nurse

There's Something About Mary

1998
as Magda

Unbeatable Harold

2006
as Jeannie

Waffle Hut

2012
as Jerrie Wolf (2012)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

1994
as Nurse with Pills

Who's Your Daddy?

2004
as Ms. Harding

Wish You Were Dead

2002
as Jinny Macintosh

Guest Star

Episode The Twilight Zone (1985)
Chameleon 		1985
Episode My So-Called Life
Guns and Gossip 		1994
Episode Crossing Jordan
Is That Plutonium in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? 		2004
Episode Who's the Boss?
Mona 		1987
Episode My Name Is Earl
Number One 		2006
Episode Becker
Take These Pills and Shove 'Em 		1998
Episode Frasier
The Focus Group 		1996
Episode Falcon Crest
Unholy Alliance 		1986