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Laura Linney

February 2024

  • two women sitting on a sofa

    Suncoast review – Laura Linney helps lift adequate family saga

    The Oscar nominee does her brittle shtick well enough as a mother caring for her dying son in a so-so comedy drama

November 2023

  • Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in a still from the film Love Actually. Photo: Peter Mountain. Copyright: 2003 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    Love Actually at 20: Richard Curtis’s imperfect yet irresistible Christmas romcom

    Far from unimpeachable with problems ranging from a lack of diversity to an overdose of saccharine, the festive ensemble comedy is an annual staple nonetheless

October 2023

  • Laura Linney, left, and Maggie Smith in The Miracle Club.

    The Miracle Club review – over-stewed pathos in a theme-park Ireland

  • The Miracle Club Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Miracle Club review – Maggie Smith can’t save this rocky road trip to Lourdes

May 2022

  • ‘A foul-mouthed, pint-sized moral conscience-cum-business whiz’ … Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore in Ozark.

    Farewell to Ozark – the most thrilling, rewarding crime show around

    In this near-perfect world of secrets, lies and cartel bosses, Laura Linney and Jason Bateman have been compelling to the Byrdes’ bitter end – but it’s Ruth who’s the show’s real hero

October 2021

  • Tales of the City.

    How we made
    Armistead Maupin and Laura Linney: how we made Tales of the City

    ‘I thought we were going to make history with our same sex kiss. And we did. There were protests all over America – and a bomb threat in Chattanooga’

December 2020

  • A family in pain … Lance Henriksen and Viggo Mortensen in Falling.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Falling review – Viggo Mortensen casts a clear eye on dementia

    In the Lord of the Rings star’s powerful debut as a director, Lance Henriksen plays a homophobic father compelled to move in with his gay son

May 2020

  • Ozark

    Jump the shark
    Ozark: how an unnecessary new arrival turned drama into soap opera

    The atmospheric crime thriller based around a family laundering cash for a drug cartel never held back on ridiculousness. But it met its tipping point in season three

April 2020

  • Save Me Too, created by and starring Lennie James.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Save Me Too, Ozark, Money Heist, Pen15 and more

    Lennie James’s brilliant stolen child thriller returns

December 2019

  • Tom Hanks speaking on stage at the 11th Annual Governors Awards gala hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 27 October 2019.

    The most anticipated movies of 2020
    The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

    Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

June 2019

  • Laura Linney at the 2017 Tony awards

    The look I love
    Laura Linney: ‘I started to glow in the dark like an exotic cheetah’

  • Tales of the City

    ‘All our writers are queer’: why Tales of the City is still a revolutionary show

August 2018

  • Ozark season 2

    TV review
    Ozark: season 2 review – Netflix's backwoods-noir crime tale returns with more moral murk

    Jason Bateman and Laura Linney are getting down with the yokels in this second-season opener – and getting shot of an inconvenient dead body

June 2018

  • Laura Linney in My Name is Lucy Barton at the Bridge theatre.

    The week in theatre: My Name Is Lucy Barton; Leave Taking; Killer Joe

    Laura Linney is utterly assured at the Bridge, but fellow Hollywood star Orlando Bloom fails to convince
  • My Name is Lucy Barton at the Bridge Theatre, June 2018 Laura Linney as Lucy Barton, photo by Manuel Harlan

    My Name Is Lucy Barton review – Laura Linney triumphs as a writer confronting her past

    Elizabeth Strout’s novel works outstandingly on stage, thanks to sole performer Linney’s nuanced command of the narrative
  • Lily Allen photographed in London.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    Laura Linney, Lily Allen and Karen Gibson – the woman who rocked the Royal Wedding. All feature in this gallery of the best work commissioned by the Observer in May 2018

May 2018

  • Laura Linney, photographed at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York.

    Laura Linney on making her British stage debut

    The US actor tells how a new adaption of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton chimes with our uncertain times

January 2018

  • Laura Linney

    Laura Linney to make London stage debut in My Name is Lucy Barton

    Richard Eyre to direct adaptation of 2016 novel at Bridge theatre

December 2017

  • steve coogan laura linney richard gere and rebecca hall in the dinner

    The Dinner review – disappointingly distracted drama

    An all-star cast can’t list this sorry affair, which might have worked given greater focus

July 2017

  • Laura Linney

    Laura Linney: 'Having a child later in life has been wonderful'

    She was a lying needy sister in Savages, an apple pie innocent in Tales of the City – and now, in Ozark, she’s fleeing Mexican drug barons. The star talks about Hugh Grant’s career, working with the wrong people, and the joys of late motherhood
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