
Lin Shaye
Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in horror franchises, including Nightmare on Elm Street, Ouija, and Insidious. Shaye attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting. She stayed in New York upon graduation and worked in numerous off- and off-off- Broadway productions, as well as Lincoln Center and Broadway.
- Known ForActing
- Born12 October 1943 (age 82)
- Place of BirthDetroit, Michigan, USA
Lin Shaye

- Known ForActing
- Born12 October 1943 (age 82)
- Place of BirthDetroit, Michigan, USA
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS

House of Abraham
2025

1000 Women in Horror
2025

Scared to Death
2024

The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024

Insidious: The Red Door
2023

Frank and Penelope
2022

Pines
2022

We Are Gathered Here Today
2022

Living with Chucky
2022

Remote
2022

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021

Darkness Falls
2020

Dreamkatcher
2020

The Voices
2020

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020

The Horror Crowd
2020

The Call
2020

The Grudge
2019

The Final Wish
2019

Room for Rent
2019

Gothic Harvest
2019

Get Gone
2019

Ambition
2019

The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018

Insidious: The Last Key
2018

Herbert West: Reanimator
2018

They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018

Los Angeles Overnight
2018

Grow House
2017

Buster's Mal Heart
2017

The Black Room
2017

All About the Money
2017

Mountain Top
2017

Director's Cut
2016

Jack Goes Home
2016

Abattoir
2016

Texas Heart
2016

Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016

The Midnight Man
2016

Insidious: Chapter 3
2015

Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015

Tales of Halloween
2015

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015

The Signal
2014

Lost Time
2014

Grace
2014

Ouija
2014

Insidious: Chapter 2
2013

Crazy Kind of Love
2013

Big Ass Spider!
2013

All American Christmas Carol
2013

Noobz
2013

FDR: American Badass!
2012

3 Days of Normal
2012

Life's an Itch
2012

The Three Stooges
2012

Jewtopia
2012

Waffle Hut
2012

Matchmaker Santa
2012

Insidious
2011

Take Me Home
2011

Sedona
2011

Chillerama
2011

I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011

Rosewood Lane
2011

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011

Goldberg - P.I.
2011

2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010

Killer by Nature
2010

Next Stop Murder
2010

Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010

The Penthouse
2010

Small Town Saturday Night
2010

Black Limousine
2010

VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010

The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010

Stuntmen
2009

Dark Moon Rising
2009

My Sister's Keeper
2009

American Cowslip
2009

Doggie Heaven
2008

Killer Pad
2008

Asylum
2008

Chronic Town
2008
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008

The Election
2007

Chasing Robert
2007

Homo Erectus
2007

Pledge This!
2007

Snakes on a Plane
2006

Surf School
2006

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006

Hoboken Hollow
2006
Down the P.C.H.
2006

Bachelor Party Vegas
2006

Unbeatable Harold
2006

Driftwood
2006

2001 Maniacs
2005

Hate Crime
2005

Drop Dead Sexy
2005

Confessions of an Action Star
2005

Born Killers
2005

Who's Your Daddy?
2004

The Almost Guys
2004

The Hillside Strangler
2004

A Cinderella Story
2004

Cellular
2004

Dead End
2003

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003

Stuck on You
2003

Barely Legal
2003

ManFast
2003

Contagion
2002

Boat Trip
2002

Wish You Were Dead
2002

Say It Isn't So
2001
A Letter from My Father
2001
Without Charlie
2001

Attention Shoppers
2000

Me, Myself & Irene
2000

Detroit Rock City
1999

There's Something About Mary
1998

Breakfast with Einstein
1998

Living Out Loud
1998

Trading Favors
1997

Kingpin
1996

Last Man Standing
1996

Project: ALF
1996

Nature of the Beast
1995

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995

Trial by Fire
1995

New Nightmare
1994

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994

Dumb and Dumber
1994

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994

Corrina, Corrina
1994

Amityville: A New Generation
1993

The Temp
1993

Three of Hearts
1993

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993

Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993

Roadside Prophets
1992

Critters 3
1991

Pump Up the Volume
1990

Book of Love
1990

Critters 2
1988

Lucky Stiff
1988

The Hidden
1987

Stillwatch
1987

My Demon Lover
1987

Slam Dance
1987

The Running Man
1987

Extreme Prejudice
1987

Mistress
1987

Critters
1986

Brewster's Millions
1985

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984

Summer Fantasy
1984

Why Me?
1984

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982

Alone in the Dark
1982
A Cry for Love
1980

The Long Riders
1980

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979

Goin' South
1978

Sex and the Married Woman
1977

A Secret Space
1977
