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Lin Shaye |
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1944 |
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Detroit, Michigan |
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Linda Shaye (born 1944) is an American actress.
Shaye started out playing small roles in several movies, beginning with the Jack Nicholson-directed Western Goin' South in 1978. She has since appeared in a large number of character roles. Many were for her brother, Robert Shaye, co-founder and former co-CEO of New Line Cinema, such as her role as Mrs. Flynn in the 1990 film Book of Love, which Robert Shaye directed. Her breakout comedy role was the part of Mrs. Nuegeboren in the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber (1994). Shaye also appeared in the Farrelly's 1996 comedy Kingpin, and then got a role as Cameron Diaz's overtanned neighbor Magda in their 1998 hit There's Something About Mary. She followed this with 1999's Detroit Rock City as an uptight mother waging a personal war against the band Kiss. Shaye is most famous for her role in 2003's Boat Trip as Coach Sonya, the sex-crazed tanning coach.