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Lin Shaye

English
Filmography

Insidious

2010
as Elise Rainier

A Cinderella Story

2004
as Mrs. Wells

Insidious: The Last Key

2018
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 2

2013
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: Chapter 3

2015
as Elise Rainier

Insidious: The Red Door

2023
as Elise

There's Something About Mary

1998
as Magda

Dumb and Dumber

1994
as Mrs. Neugeboren

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984
as Teacher

The Grudge

2020
as Faith Matheson

My Sister's Keeper

2009
as Nurse Adele

Ouija

2014
as Paulina Zander

Snakes on a Plane

2006
as Grace

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016
as Paulina Zander

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

1994
as Nurse with Pills

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

2003
as Margie

Cellular

2004
as Exotic Car Driver

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

2015
as The Grand Lady

Hood of Horror

2006
as Clara

Abattoir

2016
as Allie

Nature of the Beast

1995
as Carol Powell

The Horror Crowd

2020
as Lin Shaye

Get Gone

2019
as Mama Maxwell

Living Out Loud

1998
as Lisa's Nurse

Last Man Standing

1996
as The Madame

Wish You Were Dead

2002
as Jinny Macintosh

Tales of Halloween

2015
as Lynn's Mother

Alone in the Dark

1982
as Receptionist at Haven

Gothic Harvest

2018
as Griselda

Slam Dance

1987
as Librarian

The Long Riders

1980
as Kate

Driftwood

2006
as Nancy Forrester

Who's Your Daddy?

2004
as Ms. Harding

Detroit Rock City

1999
as Mrs. Bruce

Jewtopia

2012
as Dr. Sutton

Doggie Heaven

2008

Unbeatable Harold

2006
as Jeannie

Kingpin

1996
as Landlady

Lost Time

2014
as Mysterious Woman

Noobz

2013
as Mrs. Theodore

I Was a Teenage Werebear

2011

Dead End

2003
as Laura Harrington

Rosewood Lane

2011
as Mrs. Hawthorne

Lucky Stiff

1988
as Bratty Kid's Mom

Next Stop Murder

2010
as Detective Reeson

Room for Rent

2019
as Joyce

Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again

1982
as Nurse with Telegram

Crazy Kind of Love

2013
as Denise Mack

Drop Dead Sexy

2005
as Ma Muzzy

National Lampoon's Barely Legal

2005
as Tequila

Critters 2

1988
as Sally

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

2010
as Granny Boone

The Call

2020
as Edith Cranston

Critters

1986
as Sally

Buster's Mal Heart

2017
as Pauline

The seeding of Sarah Burns

1979
as 2nd Nurse

Down the P.C.H.

2006
as Wendy O'Hara

Goldberg - P.I.

2011
as Violet

Killer by Nature

2010
as Leona

Corrina, Corrina

1994
as Repeat Nanny

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

1994
as Foreman #2

Hate Crime

2006
as Kathleen Slansky

The Voices

2020
as Vagabond

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue

2010
as Mrs. Rawlings

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

1994
as Inmate

Dark Moon Rising

2009
as Sunny

Chillerama

2011
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva

Big Ass Spider!

2013
as Mrs. Jefferson

The Temp

1993
as Rosemary

Hoboken Hollow

2005
as Mrs. Brodrick

Darkness Falls

2020
as Angela Anderson

Sedona

2012
as Claire

Farewell Mr. Kringle

2010
as Zelda

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

1995
as Bonnie

Take Me Home

2011
as Jill

The Midnight Man

2016
as Anna

Dreamkatcher

2020
as Ruth

Bachelor Party Vegas

2006
as Cassandra

2001 Maniacs

2005
as Granny Boone

Boat Trip

2002
as Sonya the Coach

Grow House

2017
as Mrs. Gilliam

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

1993
as Witness

Roadside Prophets

1992
as Celeste

3 Days of Normal

2012
as May

Grace

2014
as Helen

Contagion

2002
as Laura Crowley

All American Christmas Carol

2013
as Barbara Belnap

Amityville: A New Generation

1993
as Nurse Turner

Dr. 420

2012
as Dr. 420

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves

2015
as Helen Keller

Scared to Death

as Max

Project: ALF

1996
as Waitress

Goin' South

1978
as Parasol Lady

FDR: American Badass!

2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt

The Final Wish

2019
as Kate Hammond

Director's Cut

2018
as Captain Wheeler

Say It Isn't So

2001
as Nurse Bautista

All About the Money

2017
as Mrs. Womack

Pledge This!

2006
as Miss Prin

Small Town Saturday Night

2010
as Phyllis Ryan

Waffle Hut

2012
as Jerrie Wolf (2012)

The Three Stooges

2012
as Nurse Crotchet

Summer Fantasy

1984
as Woman on Beach

Stuntmen

2009
as Bumble Jackson

My Demon Lover

1987
as Anemic Counter Girl

The Almost Guys

2004
as Repo Boss

Hester Street

1975
as Whore

Jack Goes Home

2016
as Teresa

The Election

2007
as The Wife

Stillwatch

1987

The Hidden

1987
as Carol Miller

The Signal

2014
as Mirabelle

Brewster's Millions

1985
as Journalist at Rally

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

2021
as Mrs. Bundy

The Hillside Strangler

2004
as Jenny Buono

Frank and Penelope

2022
as Ophelia

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2023
as Lin Shaye

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

2011
as Dody

Life's an Itch

2012
as Gloria

Killer Pad

2008
as Marge

Stuck on You

2003
as Makeup Babe

The Running Man

1987
as Propaganda Officer

Surf School

2006
as Larry's mom

Matchmaker Santa

2012
as Debbie

The Black Room

2016
as Miss Black