Lin Shaye
Lin Shaye is an American actress. In a career spanning over 50 years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2020), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026).
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Insidious: Out of the Further
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2026
Scared to Death
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2026
1000 Women in Horror
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2025
House of Abraham
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2025
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
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2024
Insidious: The Red Door
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2023
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
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2022
Living with Chucky
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2022
Frank and Penelope
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2022
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
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2021
The Call
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2020
Darkness Falls
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2020
The Grudge
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2019
Gothic Harvest
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2019
Room for Rent
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2019
The Final Wish
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2019
Los Angeles Overnight
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2018
Insidious: The Last Key
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2018
Buster's Mal Heart
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2017
The Black Room
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2017
Mountain Top
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2017
Abattoir
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2016
Ouija: Origin of Evil
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2016
The Midnight Man
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2016
Director's Cut
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2016
Tales of Halloween
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2015
Insidious: Chapter 3
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2015
Grace
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2014
Ouija
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2014
Lost Time
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2014
The Signal
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2014
Big Ass Spider!
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2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
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2013
Noobz
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2013
Jewtopia
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2012
Rosewood Lane
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2011
Chillerama
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2011
Insidious
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2011
Take Me Home
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2011
Sedona
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2011
Small Town Saturday Night
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2010
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
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2010
The Penthouse
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2010
Dark Moon Rising
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2009
Stuntmen
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2009
American Cowslip
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2009
My Sister's Keeper
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2009
Asylum
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2008
Killer Pad
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2008
Pledge This!
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2007
Driftwood
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2006
Surf School
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2006
Down the P.C.H.
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2006
Snakes on a Plane
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2006
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
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2006
2001 Maniacs
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2005
Drop Dead Sexy
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2005
Confessions of an Action Star
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2005
Hate Crime
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2005
Born Killers
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2005
The Hillside Strangler
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2004
A Cinderella Story
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2004
Dead End
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2003
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
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2003
Boat Trip
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2002
Wish You Were Dead
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2002
Contagion
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2002
A Letter from My Father
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2001
Say It Isn't So
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2001
Attention Shoppers
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2000
Detroit Rock City
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1999
Living Out Loud
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1998
There's Something About Mary
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1998
Breakfast with Einstein
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1998
Trading Favors
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1997
Kingpin
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1996
Nature of the Beast
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1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
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1995
Corrina, Corrina
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1994
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
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1993
Amityville: A New Generation
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1993
Three of Hearts
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1993
The Temp
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1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
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1993
Roadside Prophets
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1992
Critters 3
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1991
Book of Love
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1990
Critters 2
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1988
The Hidden
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1987
Slam Dance
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1987
My Demon Lover
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1987
Critters
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1986
A Nightmare on Elm Street
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1984
Why Me?
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1984
Alone in the Dark
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1982
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
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1979