What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

Linney graduated from Brown with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986. Theater
Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler for which Laura Linney won the 1994 Joe A. The same year Laura Linney also appeared in the role of an artist's model in the low-budget film Maze with Rob Morrow.

During her career Laura Linney has received three Emmy Awards two Golden Globe Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Additionally Laura Linney has been the recipient of three Academy Award nominations and three Tony Award nominations. She is most well known for her performances in films such as The Truman Show Mystic River and Kinsey among others.