Scared to Death
2026 · Movie
as Max
Lin Shaye
1943-10-12
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Detroit, Michigan, USA
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
House of Abraham
2025 · Movie
1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Movie
as Self
Common Side Effects
2025 · TV Show
as Sonia (voice)
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024 · Movie
as Ellen
Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
Frank and Penelope
2022 · Movie
as Ophelia
Pines
2022 · Movie
as Julie (voice)
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022 · Movie
as Jean Cole
Living with Chucky
2022 · Movie
as Self
Remote
2022 · Movie
as Kane
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022 · Movie
as Self
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022 · Movie
as Constance Hackett
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021 · Movie
as Mrs. Bundy
Behind the Monsters
2021 · TV Show
as Self
Darkness Falls
2020 · Movie
as Angela Anderson
Dreamkatcher
2020 · Movie
as Ruth
The Voices
2020 · Movie
as The Vagabond
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020 · Movie
as Mrs. Wylder
The Horror Crowd
2020 · Movie
as Self
The Call
2020 · Movie
as Edith Cranston
Dead Talk Live
2020 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020 · TV Show
as Dottie Minter
The Grudge
2019 · Movie
as Faith Matheson
The Final Wish
2019 · Movie
as Kate Hammond
Room for Rent
2019 · Movie
as Joyce
Gothic Harvest
2019 · Movie
as Griselda
Get Gone
2019 · Movie
as Mama
Ambition
2019 · Movie
as Lady Bum
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018 · Movie
as Self
Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018 · Movie
as Meredith
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018 · Movie
as Self
Los Angeles Overnight
2018 · Movie
as Cousins
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · TV Show
as Self
Grow House
2017 · Movie
as Mrs. Gilliam
Buster's Mal Heart
2017 · Movie
as Pauline
The Black Room
2017 · Movie
as Miss Black
All About the Money
2017 · Movie
as Mrs. Womack
Mountain Top
2017 · Movie
as Muriel Miller
Director's Cut
2016 · Movie
as Captain Wheeler
Jack Goes Home
2016 · Movie
as Teresa
Abattoir
2016 · Movie
as Allie
Texas Heart
2016 · Movie
as Mrs. Smith
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · Movie
as Old Paulina Zander
The Midnight Man
2016 · Movie
as Anna
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015 · Movie
as Helen Keller
Tales of Halloween
2015 · Movie
as Lynn's Mother
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015 · Movie
as The Grand Lady
The Signal
2014 · Movie
as Mirabelle
Lost Time
2014 · Movie
as Mysterious Woman
Grace
2014 · Movie
as Helen
Ouija
2014 · Movie
as Paulina Zander
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
Crazy Kind of Love
2013 · Movie
as Denise Mack
Big Ass Spider!
2013 · Movie
as Mrs. Jefferson
All American Christmas Carol
2013 · Movie
as Barbara Belnap
Noobz
2013 · Movie
as Mrs. Theodore
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013 · TV Show
as Elise
FDR: American Badass!
2012 · Movie
as Eleanor Roosevelt
3 Days of Normal
2012 · Movie
as May
Life's an Itch
2012 · Movie
as Gloria
The Three Stooges
2012 · Movie
as Nurse Crotchet
Jewtopia
2012 · Movie
as Dr. Sutton
Waffle Hut
2012 · Movie
as Jerrie Wolf
Matchmaker Santa
2012 · Movie
as Debbie
EastSiders
2012 · TV Show
as Diane
Insidious
2011 · Movie
as Elise Rainier
Take Me Home
2011 · Movie
as Jill
Sedona
2011 · Movie
as Claire
Chillerama
2011 · Movie
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011 · Movie
Rosewood Lane
2011 · Movie
as Mrs. Hawthorne
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011 · Movie
as Dody
Goldberg - P.I.
2011 · Movie
as Violet
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010 · Movie
as Granny Boone
Killer by Nature
2010 · Movie
as Leona
Next Stop Murder
2010 · Movie
as Detective Reeson
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010 · Movie
as Zelda
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Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010 · Movie
as Bonnie Johnson
The Penthouse
2010 · Movie
as Frances
Small Town Saturday Night
2010 · Movie
as Phyllis Ryan
The Land of the Astronauts
2010 · Movie
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010 · Movie
as The Lush
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Movie
as Self
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010 · Movie
as Mrs. Rawlings
Stuntmen
2009 · Movie
as Bumble Jackson
Dark Moon Rising
2009 · Movie
as Sunny
My Sister's Keeper
2009 · Movie
as Nurse Adele
American Cowslip
2009 · Movie
as Lou Anne
Doggie Heaven
2008 · Movie
as Woman
Killer Pad
2008 · Movie
as Marge
Asylum
2008 · Movie
as String's Mother
Chronic Town
2008 · Movie
as Nurse
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008 · Movie
as Self
The Election
2007 · Movie
as The Wife
Chasing Robert
2007 · Movie
as Martha the Bookie
Homo Erectus
2007 · Movie
as Museum Guide
Pledge This!
2007 · Movie
as Miss Prin
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007 · Movie
as Self
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007 · Movie
as Self
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007 · Movie
as Self
Private Practice
2007 · TV Show
as Mrs. Taylor
Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Movie
as Grace
Surf School
2006 · Movie
as Larry's Mom
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006 · Movie
as Clara
Hoboken Hollow
2006 · Movie
as Mrs. Brodrick
Down the P.C.H.
2006 · Movie
as Wendy O'Hara
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006 · Movie
as Cassandra
Unbeatable Harold
2006 · Movie
as Jeannie
Driftwood
2006 · Movie
as Nancy Forrester
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Movie
as Self
2001 Maniacs
2005 · Movie
as Granny Boone
Hate Crime
2005 · Movie
as Kathleen Slansky
Drop Dead Sexy
2005 · Movie
as Ma Muzzy
Confessions of an Action Star
2005 · Movie
as Samantha Jones
Born Killers
2005 · Movie
as Willow
My Name Is Earl
2005 · TV Show
as Paul's Mom
Made in Hollywood
2005 · TV Show
as Self
Who's Your Daddy?
2004 · Movie
as Ms. Harding
The Almost Guys
2004 · Movie
as Repo Boss
The Hillside Strangler
2004 · Movie
as Jenny Buono
A Cinderella Story
2004 · Movie
as Mrs. Wells
Cellular
2004 · Movie
as Exotic Car Driver
Dead End
2003 · Movie
as Laura Harrington
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003 · Movie
as Margie
Stuck on You
2003 · Movie
as Makeup Babe
Barely Legal
2003 · Movie
as Tequlia
ManFast
2003 · Movie
as Marge
Contagion
2002 · Movie
as Laura Crowley
Boat Trip
2002 · Movie
as Sonya the Coach
Wish You Were Dead
2002 · Movie
as Jinny Macintosh
Say It Isn't So
2001 · Movie
as Nurse Bautista
No image
A Letter from My Father
2001 · Movie
as Elise
No image
Without Charlie
2001 · Movie
Crossing Jordan
2001 · TV Show
as Leather Lauren
Attention Shoppers
2000 · Movie
as Libby
Me, Myself & Irene
2000 · Movie
as Mrs. Caleron
Detroit Rock City
1999 · Movie
as Mrs. Bruce
There's Something About Mary
1998 · Movie
as Magda
Breakfast with Einstein
1998 · Movie
as Miss Desmond
Living Out Loud
1998 · Movie
as Lisa's Nurse
Becker
1998 · TV Show
as Mrs. Cooper
Trading Favors
1997 · Movie
as Darla
Perversions of Science
1997 · TV Show
as Nurse
Kingpin
1996 · Movie
as Landlady
Last Man Standing
1996 · Movie
as The Madame
Project: ALF
1996 · Movie
as Waitress
Arli$$
1996 · TV Show
as Shurja
Nature of the Beast
1995 · Movie
as Carol Powell
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995 · Movie
as Bonnie
Trial by Fire
1995 · Movie
as Phyliis Cardell
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Movie
as Nurse with Pills
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 · Movie
as Rubber Rose Maid
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994 · Movie
as Inmate
Dumb and Dumber
1994 · Movie
as Mrs. Neugeboren
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994 · Movie
as Foreman #2
Corrina, Corrina
1994 · Movie
as Repeat Nanny
ER
1994 · TV Show
as Margaret
My So-Called Life
1994 · TV Show
as Parent #2
Amityville: A New Generation
1993 · Movie
as Nurse Turner
The Temp
1993 · Movie
as Rosemary
Three of Hearts
1993 · Movie
as Operator
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993 · Movie
as Witness
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993 · Movie
as Make up Artist
The Hidden II
1993 · Movie
as Carol Miller (archive footage)
Frasier
1993 · TV Show
as Anne
Roadside Prophets
1992 · Movie
as Celeste
Critters 3
1991 · Movie
as Sal (archive footage)
Pump Up the Volume
1990 · Movie
as PTA Parent #3
Book of Love
1990 · Movie
as Mrs. Flynn
Life Goes On
1989 · TV Show
as Parent #2
Critters 2
1988 · Movie
as Sal
Lucky Stiff
1988 · Movie
as Bratty Kid's Mom
The Hidden
1987 · Movie
as Carol Miller
Stillwatch
1987 · Movie
My Demon Lover
1987 · Movie
as Anemic Counter Girl
Slam Dance
1987 · Movie
as Librarian
The Running Man
1987 · Movie
as Propaganda Officer
Extreme Prejudice
1987 · Movie
as Employment Office Clerk
Mistress
1987 · Movie
as Woman Customer
Critters
1986 · Movie
as Sally
Brewster's Millions
1985 · Movie
as Journalist at Rally
The Twilight Zone
1985 · TV Show
as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Movie
as Teacher
Summer Fantasy
1984 · Movie
as Woman on Beach
Why Me?
1984 · Movie
Who's the Boss?
1984 · TV Show
as Mrs. Padnick
Highway to Heaven
1984 · TV Show
as Lila Barnes
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982 · Movie
as Nurse with Telegram
Alone in the Dark
1982 · Movie
as Receptionist at Haven
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · TV Show
as Secretary
Falcon Crest
1981 · TV Show
as Smoking Female Prisoner
No image
A Cry for Love
1980 · Movie
The Long Riders
1980 · Movie
as Kate
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979 · Movie
as 2nd Nurse
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979 · Movie
as Freida
Goin' South
1978 · Movie
as Parasol Lady
Sex and the Married Woman
1977 · Movie
as Sandra
A Secret Space
1977 · Movie
as Amy
Eight Is Enough
1977 · TV Show
as Band Member
Hester Street
1975 · Movie
as Whore
The Old World
· Movie
as The Aunt (voice)
No image
Carrier
· Movie
as Joan Pierson
No image
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
· Movie
as Nurse
No image
Dead of Nowhere 3D
· Movie
as Meemaw
Before Memory
· Movie
No image
Devoted
· Movie
as Aunt Dottie
No image
The Bench
· Movie
Jackson's Hole
· Movie
as Netter
Mascotland
· Movie
Thread: An Insidious Tale
· Movie
as Elise Rainier
