Claim: Laura Linney was in a play.

Laura Leggett Linney -LRB- born February 5 , 1964 -RRB- is an American actress . A three-time Academy Award nominee and four-time Tony Award nominee , she won her first Emmy Award in 2002 for Wild Iris -LRB- 2001 -RRB- , and had subsequent wins for Frasier -LRB- 2003 -- 04 -RRB- and John Adams -LRB- 2008 -RRB- . From 2010 -- 13 , she starred in the Showtime series The Big C , which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013 . She is also a two-time Golden Globe Award winner .   Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 , before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible , the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen -LRB- 2004 -RRB- and Time Stands Still -LRB- 2010 -RRB- , as well as the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes . She made her screen debut in the 1992 film Lorenzo 's Oil , and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for You Can Count on Me -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , Kinsey -LRB- 2004 -RRB- and The Savages -LRB- 2007 -RRB- . Her other films include Primal Fear -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , The Truman Show -LRB- 1998 -RRB- , Mystic River -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , Love Actually -LRB- 2003 -RRB- and The Squid and the Whale -LRB- 2005 -RRB- .