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Lin Shaye

English
Filmography

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2023
as Lin Shaye

Insidious: The Red Door

2023
as Elise

Frank and Penelope

2022
as Ophelia

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

2021
as Mrs. Bundy

The Grudge

2020
as Faith Matheson

The Horror Crowd

2020
as Lin Shaye

Dreamkatcher

2020
as Ruth

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

2020
as Dottie Minter

Darkness Falls

2020
as Angela Anderson

The Voices

2020
as Vagabond

The Call

2020
as Edith Cranston

Room for Rent

2019
as Joyce

Get Gone

2019
as Mama Maxwell

The Final Wish

2019
as Kate Hammond

Gothic Harvest

2018
as Griselda

Insidious: The Last Key

2018
as Elise Rainier

Director's Cut

2018
as Captain Wheeler

Grow House

2017
as Mrs. Gilliam

All About the Money

2017
as Mrs. Womack

Buster's Mal Heart

2017
as Pauline

American Gothic (2016)

2016
as Lila

The Black Room

2016
as Miss Black

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016
as Paulina Zander

Abattoir

2016
as Allie

The Midnight Man

2016
as Anna

Jack Goes Home

2016
as Teresa

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

2015
as Helen Keller

Insidious: Chapter 3

2015
as Elise Rainier

Tales of Halloween

2015
as Lynn's Mother

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

2015
as The Grand Lady

The Signal

2014
as Mirabelle

Lost Time

2014
as Mysterious Woman

Grace

2014
as Helen

Ouija

2014
as Paulina Zander

Big Ass Spider!

2013
as Mrs. Jefferson

Noobz

2013
as Mrs. Theodore

All American Christmas Carol

2013
as Barbara Belnap

Crazy Kind of Love

2013
as Denise Mack

Insidious: Chapter 2

2013
as Elise Rainier

Dr. 420

2012
as Dr. 420

Sedona

2012
as Claire

Jewtopia

2012
as Dr. Sutton

3 Days of Normal

2012
as May

Waffle Hut

2012
as Jerrie Wolf (2012)

FDR: American Badass!

2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Life's an Itch

2012
as Gloria

Matchmaker Santa

2012
as Debbie

The Three Stooges

2012
as Nurse Crotchet

I Was a Teenage Werebear

2011

Chillerama

2011
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

2011
as Dody

Goldberg - P.I.

2011
as Violet

Take Me Home

2011
as Jill

Rosewood Lane

2011
as Mrs. Hawthorne

Farewell Mr. Kringle

2010
as Zelda

Small Town Saturday Night

2010
as Phyllis Ryan

Next Stop Murder

2010
as Detective Reeson

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

2010
as Granny Boone

Killer by Nature

2010
as Leona

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue

2010
as Mrs. Rawlings

Insidious

2010
as Elise Rainier

Stuntmen

2009
as Bumble Jackson

Dark Moon Rising

2009
as Sunny

My Sister's Keeper

2009
as Nurse Adele

Doggie Heaven

2008

Killer Pad

2008
as Marge

The Election

2007
as The Wife

Down the P.C.H.

2006
as Wendy O'Hara

Driftwood

2006
as Nancy Forrester

Unbeatable Harold

2006
as Jeannie

Snakes on a Plane

2006
as Grace

Bachelor Party Vegas

2006
as Cassandra

Pledge This!

2006
as Miss Prin

Surf School

2006
as Larry's mom

Hood of Horror

2006
as Clara

Hate Crime

2006
as Kathleen Slansky

Drop Dead Sexy

2005
as Ma Muzzy

2001 Maniacs

2005
as Granny Boone

Hoboken Hollow

2005
as Mrs. Brodrick

National Lampoon's Barely Legal

2005
as Tequila

Cellular

2004
as Exotic Car Driver

The Almost Guys

2004
as Repo Boss

Who's Your Daddy?

2004
as Ms. Harding

The Hillside Strangler

2004
as Jenny Buono

A Cinderella Story

2004
as Mrs. Wells

Dead End

2003
as Laura Harrington

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

2003
as Margie

Stuck on You

2003
as Makeup Babe

Contagion

2002
as Laura Crowley

Wish You Were Dead

2002
as Jinny Macintosh

Boat Trip

2002
as Sonya the Coach

Say It Isn't So

2001
as Nurse Bautista

Detroit Rock City

1999
as Mrs. Bruce

There's Something About Mary

1998
as Magda

Living Out Loud

1998
as Lisa's Nurse

Project: ALF

1996
as Waitress

Last Man Standing

1996
as The Madame

Kingpin

1996
as Landlady

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

1995
as Bonnie

Nature of the Beast

1995
as Carol Powell

Corrina, Corrina

1994
as Repeat Nanny

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

1994
as Foreman #2

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

1994
as Nurse with Pills

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

1994
as Inmate

Dumb and Dumber

1994
as Mrs. Neugeboren

The Temp

1993
as Rosemary

Amityville: A New Generation

1993
as Nurse Turner

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

1993
as Witness

Roadside Prophets

1992
as Celeste

Lucky Stiff

1988
as Bratty Kid's Mom

Critters 2

1988
as Sally

My Demon Lover

1987
as Anemic Counter Girl

The Hidden

1987
as Carol Miller

The Running Man

1987
as Propaganda Officer

Slam Dance

1987
as Librarian

Stillwatch

1987

Critters

1986
as Sally

Brewster's Millions

1985
as Journalist at Rally

Summer Fantasy

1984
as Woman on Beach

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984
as Teacher

Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again

1982
as Nurse with Telegram

Alone in the Dark

1982
as Receptionist at Haven

The Long Riders

1980
as Kate

The seeding of Sarah Burns

1979
as 2nd Nurse

Goin' South

1978
as Parasol Lady

Hester Street

1975
as Whore

Guest Star

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