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Lin Shaye
Birth at
12 October 1943
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Lin Shay is a famous American film actress from Detroit. Lin came from a Jewish family, her mother was a housewife, and her father was an artist and owner of a department store. Shay studied acting at the University of Michigan, where she participated in every theater production. After graduating from university, she moved to New York to test herself in the Broadway Theatre Quarter. There she managed to enter the School of Art at Columbia University (New York).
At thirty-three, she went to Los
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Lin Shay is a famous American film actress from Detroit.
Lin came from a Jewish family, her mother was a housewife, and her father was an artist and owner of a department store. Shay studied acting at the University of Michigan, where she participated in every theater production. After graduating from university, she moved to New York to test herself in the Broadway Theatre Quarter. There she managed to enter the School of Art at Columbia University (New York).
At thirty-three, she went to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film. In 1975, Lin debuted in the picture.
Hester Street , which tells about the fate of Jewish immigrants in the United States at the junction of the XIX and XX centuries, after which she was offered small roles in various TV shows and films.
Then the actress was offered a secondary role in the film Heading South directed by Jack Nicholson, which, despite the star cast of actors, did not become popular with film fans and critics. But from that moment, Shay began to constantly get roles in movies. This is probably partly due to the fact that the actress’ brother, Robert Shay, occupied a niche in the film industry, being the founder of the film company New Line Cinema. It is believed that the role of Flynn in the film
The Book of Love" It was created under Shay.
A real impulse in Lin’s career was shooting in the film Dumb and Dumber, in which the actress played the role of Mrs. Neugeboren. Released in 1994, the film was successful in terms of box office: earning in the world about $ 216 million, the picture made popular all the actors involved in it.
During her career, Shay has received many awards, including a nomination for the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards in 1999 for her role as Magda in a comedy film.
"Everybody's crazy about Mary." Awarded at the independent film festival Method Fest in 2002 and won the category "Best Actress" at the Peniscola Comedy Film Festival in 2004.