Lin Shaye
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Lin Shaye is an American actress born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. She played small roles in several movies, beginning with the Jack Nicholson-directed Western Goin' South in 1978.
After appearing in a number of character roles (including several for her brother, Robert Shaye, co-founder and current co-CEO of New Line Pictures, she got a plum part as the shrill Mrs. Nuegeboren in the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber (1994). She also appeared in the brothers' 1996 comedy Kingpin, and got a scene-stealing role as Cameron Diaz's alarmingly overtanned dog-owning neighbor Magda in their 1998 opus There's Something About Mary. She followed this with another memorable performance in 1999's Detroit Rock City as an uptight mother waging a personal war against the band Kiss. She has also appeared in four films by director Walter Hill: The Long Riders (1980), Brewster's Millions (1985), Extreme Prejudice (1987) and Last Man Standing (1996). In 2003, Lin appeared alongside Ray Wise and Alexandra Holden in the cult horror film Dead End and more recently in the thriller Snakes On A Plane.
She is married to actor Clayton Landey, with whom she appeared in 2002's Wish You Were Dead.
