Lin Shaye
Known for: Acting
Born: October 12, 1943
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…
Known for
The Old World
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
Scared to Death
2026
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
The Final Wish
2019
Room for Rent
2019
The Horror Crowd
2020
The Call
2020
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
House of Abraham
2025
Jackson's Hole
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
The Election
2007
Doggie Heaven
2008
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
Jack Goes Home
2016
Herbert West: Reanimator
2018
Darkness Falls
2020
Gothic Harvest
2019
A Secret Space
1977
Mistress
1987
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
2010
Dead End
2003
Insidious
2011
Pines
2022
Contagion
2002
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Carrier
FDR: American Badass!
2012
Without Charlie
2001
Grace
2014
Remote
2022
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
Abattoir
2016
Texas Heart
2016
The Midnight Man
2016
Waffle Hut
2012
Dreamkatcher
2020
Dead of Nowhere 3D
Before Memory
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
Thread: An Insidious Tale
Killer by Nature
2010
Hoboken Hollow
2006
Next Stop Murder
2010
Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
Down the P.C.H.
2006
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
Rosewood Lane
2011
The Black Room
2017
Mountain Top
2017
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
2018
The Voices
2020
2001 Maniacs
2005
Detroit Rock City
1999
Big Ass Spider!
2013
3 Days of Normal
2012
A Letter from My Father
2001
Life's an Itch
2012
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
2018
Director's Cut
2016
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
Breakfast with Einstein
1998
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
The Grudge
2019
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
Devoted
The Bench
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007
There's Something About Mary
1998
Take Me Home
2011
Sedona
2011
The Signal
2014
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
Lost Time
2014
Noobz
2013
All About the Money
2017
Get Gone
2019
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
Critters
1986
Hate Crime
2005
All American Christmas Carol
2013
Driftwood
2006
Asylum
2008
A Cinderella Story
2004
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Ambition
2019
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007
Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
Unbeatable Harold
2006
Boat Trip
2002
Attention Shoppers
2000
Dark Moon Rising
2009
Slam Dance
1987
Goldberg - P.I.
2011
Matchmaker Santa
2012
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
Born Killers
2005
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010
Snakes on a Plane
2006
Critters 2
1988
Kingpin
1996
Frank and Penelope
2022
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003
Stillwatch
1987
Nature of the Beast
1995
Wish You Were Dead
2002
Mascotland
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
Amityville: A New Generation
1993
Crazy Kind of Love
2013
The Almost Guys
2004
Ouija
2014
The Hillside Strangler
2004
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
The Temp
1993
Stuntmen
2009
My Demon Lover
1987
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
Chronic Town
2008
Jewtopia
2012
ManFast
2003
Surf School
2006
Living with Chucky
2022
Drop Dead Sexy
2005
Tales of Halloween
2015
Corrina, Corrina
1994
American Cowslip
2009
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007
Roadside Prophets
1992
Why Me?
1984
The Hidden
1987
Trading Favors
1997
Chasing Robert
2007
Book of Love
1990
The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022
Summer Fantasy
1984
The Penthouse
2010
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
My Sister's Keeper
2009
Confessions of an Action Star
2005
Alone in the Dark
1982
Chillerama
2011
Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
Living Out Loud
1998
Critters 3
1991
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Say It Isn't So
2001
Killer Pad
2008
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
Three of Hearts
1993
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1979
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
A Cry for Love
1980
Lucky Stiff
1988
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
Pledge This!
2007
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Goin' South
1978
Grow House
2017
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
Pump Up the Volume
1990
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
Last Man Standing
1996
Homo Erectus
2007
Hester Street
1975
Who's Your Daddy?
2004
Barely Legal
2003
Project: ALF
1996
Trial by Fire
1995
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
The Long Riders
1980
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Cellular
2004
The Running Man
1987
Brewster's Millions
1985
The Three Stooges
2012
Stuck on You
2003
Me, Myself & Irene
2000
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
Perversions of Science
1997
Who's the Boss?
1984
My Name Is Earl
2005
Highway to Heaven
1984
Frasier
1993
Becker
1998
ER
1994
Behind the Monsters
2021
EastSiders
2012
My So-Called Life
1994
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
Dead Talk Live
2020
The Twilight Zone
1985
Falcon Crest
1981
Cagney & Lacey
1982
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
Crossing Jordan
2001
Eight Is Enough
1977
Life Goes On
1989
Private Practice
2007
Made in Hollywood
2005
Common Side Effects
2025
Arli$$
1996
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013