Lin Shaye: movies and TV shows
Lin Shaye has 218 credits in the archive: 194 films and 24 TV series, from 1975 to 2026. Highest rated: Common Side Effects (8.4/10).
Career timeline
1975 – 2026 · busiest year: 2010 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Insidious: Out of the Further | Elise Rainier | Film | — | 82 |
| 2026 | Scared to Death | Max | Film | 7.3 | 82 |
| 2026 | Scared to Death | Film | 7.3 | 82 | |
| 2025 | Common Side Effects | Sonia (voice) | TV | 8.4 | 81 |
| 2025 | House of Abraham | Film | 9.5 | 81 | |
| 2025 | House of Abraham | Film | 9.5 | 81 | |
| 2025 | 1000 Women in Horror | Self | Film | 7.0 | 81 |
| 2024 | The Last Stand of Ellen Cole | Ellen | Film | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2024 | The Last Stand of Ellen Cole | Film | 8.0 | 80 | |
| 2023 | Insidious: The Red Door | Elise Rainier | Film | 6.5 | 79 |
| 2022 | Frank and Penelope | Ophelia | Film | 7.3 | 78 |
| 2022 | Pines | Julie (voice) | Film | 8.7 | 78 |
| 2022 | Living with Chucky | Self | Film | 6.6 | 78 |
| 2022 | The Quarry: Movie Mode | Constance Hackett | Film | 10.0 | 78 |
| 2022 | Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Self | Film | 6.6 | 78 |
| 2022 | We Are Gathered Here Today | Jean Cole | Film | 6.0 | 78 |
| 2022 | Remote | Kane | Film | — | 78 |
| 2021 | Behind the Monsters | Self | TV | 5.7 | 77 |
| 2021 | Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman | Mrs. Bundy | Film | 6.6 | 77 |
| 2020 | Penny Dreadful: City of Angels | Dottie Minter | TV | 6.8 | 76 |
| 2020 | Dreamkatcher | Ruth | Film | 5.2 | 76 |
| 2020 | Dreamkatcher | Film | 5.2 | 76 | |
| 2020 | Dead Talk Live | Self - Guest | TV | 9.0 | 76 |
| 2020 | The Call | Edith Cranston | Film | 5.4 | 76 |
| 2020 | Darkness Falls | Angela Anderson | Film | 5.4 | 76 |
| 2020 | Max Reload and the Nether Blasters | Mrs. Wylder | Film | 5.8 | 76 |
| 2020 | The Voices | The Vagabond | Film | 5.5 | 76 |
| 2020 | The Horror Crowd | Self | Film | 5.7 | 76 |
| 2019 | The Grudge | Faith Matheson | Film | 5.4 | 75 |
| 2019 | The Final Wish | Kate Hammond | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 2019 | Ambition | Lady Bum | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 2019 | Room for Rent | Joyce | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 2019 | Room for Rent | Film | 6.4 | 75 | |
| 2019 | Get Gone | Mama | Film | 4.4 | 75 |
| 2019 | Gothic Harvest | Griselda | Film | 3.6 | 75 |
| 2018 | Insidious: The Last Key | Elise Rainier | Film | 6.3 | 74 |
| 2018 | Eli Roth's History of Horror | Self | TV | 6.4 | 74 |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Overnight | Cousins | Film | 4.2 | 74 |
| 2018 | Herbert West: Reanimator | Meredith | Film | 4.7 | 74 |
| 2018 | The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 | Self | Film | — | 74 |
| 2018 | They Bite!: The Making of Critters | Self | Film | — | 74 |
| 2017 | All About the Money | Mrs. Womack | Film | 5.4 | 73 |
| 2017 | The Black Room | Miss Black | Film | 3.8 | 73 |
| 2017 | Buster's Mal Heart | Pauline | Film | 6.1 | 73 |
| 2017 | Mountain Top | Muriel Miller | Film | 7.2 | 73 |
| 2017 | Grow House | Mrs. Gilliam | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 2016 | Director's Cut | Captain Wheeler | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2016 | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Old Paulina Zander | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2016 | Abattoir | Allie | Film | 4.5 | 72 |
| 2016 | Texas Heart | Mrs. Smith | Film | 4.7 | 72 |
| 2016 | The Midnight Man | Anna | Film | 5.8 | 72 |
| 2016 | Jack Goes Home | Teresa | Film | 5.2 | 72 |
| 2015 | Insidious: Chapter 3 | Elise Rainier | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 2015 | Tales of Halloween | Lynn's Mother | Film | 5.7 | 71 |
| 2015 | Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves | Helen Keller | Film | 5.1 | 71 |
| 2015 | Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha | The Grand Lady | Film | 5.6 | 71 |
| 2014 | Ouija | Paulina Zander | Film | 5.1 | 70 |
| 2014 | The Signal | Mirabelle | Film | 6.0 | 70 |
| 2014 | Grace | Helen | Film | 5.0 | 70 |
| 2014 | Lost Time | Mysterious Woman | Film | 3.3 | 70 |
| 2013 | Insidious: Chapter 2 | Elise Rainier | Film | 6.7 | 69 |
| 2013 | Big Ass Spider! | Mrs. Jefferson | Film | 5.6 | 69 |
| 2013 | Crazy Kind of Love | Denise Mack | Film | 5.4 | 69 |
| 2013 | Insidious: Spectral Sightings | Elise | TV | — | 69 |
| 2013 | Noobz | Mrs. Theodore | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2013 | All American Christmas Carol | Barbara Belnap | Film | 4.2 | 69 |
| 2012 | The Three Stooges | Nurse Crotchet | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 2012 | EastSiders | Diane | TV | 6.3 | 68 |
| 2012 | Waffle Hut | Jerrie Wolf | Film | — | 68 |
| 2012 | FDR: American Badass! | Eleanor Roosevelt | Film | 5.1 | 68 |
| 2012 | Life's an Itch | Gloria | Film | 2.2 | 68 |
| 2012 | 3 Days of Normal | May | Film | 4.3 | 68 |
| 2012 | Jewtopia | Dr. Sutton | Film | 4.7 | 68 |
| 2012 | Matchmaker Santa | Debbie | Film | 5.7 | 68 |
| 2011 | Insidious | Elise Rainier | Film | 6.9 | 67 |
| 2011 | Chillerama | Baglady / Nurse Maleva | Film | 5.7 | 67 |
| 2011 | Take Me Home | Jill | Film | 6.5 | 67 |
| 2011 | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | Dody | Film | 5.9 | 67 |
| 2011 | Rosewood Lane | Mrs. Hawthorne | Film | 4.7 | 67 |
| 2011 | Sedona | Claire | Film | 5.6 | 67 |
| 2011 | I Was a Teenage Werebear | Film | 5.8 | 67 | |
| 2011 | Goldberg - P.I. | Violet | Film | — | 67 |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self | Film | 7.8 | 66 |
| 2010 | Killer by Nature | Leona | Film | 3.1 | 66 |
| 2010 | Small Town Saturday Night | Phyllis Ryan | Film | 5.2 | 66 |
| 2010 | Pickin' and Grinnin' | Bonnie Johnson | Film | 2.0 | 66 |
| 2010 | The Penthouse | Frances | Film | 3.4 | 66 |
| 2010 | 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams | Granny Boone | Film | 3.8 | 66 |
| 2010 | VideoDome Rent-O-Rama | The Lush | Film | — | 66 |
| 2010 | Farewell Mr. Kringle | Zelda | Film | 6.2 | 66 |
| 2010 | Next Stop Murder | Detective Reeson | Film | 6.6 | 66 |
| 2010 | The Land of the Astronauts | Film | 6.3 | 66 | |
| 2010 | The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue | Mrs. Rawlings | Film | 1.0 | 66 |
| 2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Nurse Adele | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 2009 | Dark Moon Rising | Sunny | Film | 4.6 | 65 |
| 2009 | American Cowslip | Lou Anne | Film | 5.1 | 65 |
| 2009 | Stuntmen | Bumble Jackson | Film | 3.4 | 65 |
| 2008 | Asylum | String's Mother | Film | 4.1 | 64 |
| 2008 | Killer Pad | Marge | Film | 3.8 | 64 |
| 2008 | Doggie Heaven | Woman | Film | 5.3 | 64 |
| 2008 | Starz Inside: In the Gutter | Self | Film | 4.5 | 64 |
| 2008 | Chronic Town | Nurse | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 2007 | Private Practice | Mrs. Taylor | TV | 7.5 | 63 |
| 2007 | Homo Erectus | Museum Guide | Film | 4.0 | 63 |
| 2007 | Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles | Self | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2007 | Pledge This! | Miss Prin | Film | 2.8 | 63 |
| 2007 | The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane' | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2007 | Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2007 | Chasing Robert | Martha the Bookie | Film | 2.0 | 63 |
| 2007 | The Election | The Wife | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2006 | Snakes on a Plane | Grace | Film | 5.5 | 62 |
| 2006 | Bachelor Party Vegas | Cassandra | Film | 4.9 | 62 |
| 2006 | Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror | Clara | Film | 4.8 | 62 |
| 2006 | Unbeatable Harold | Jeannie | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 2006 | Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane | Self | Film | 7.0 | 62 |
| 2006 | Hoboken Hollow | Mrs. Brodrick | Film | 3.8 | 62 |
| 2006 | Surf School | Larry's Mom | Film | 2.8 | 62 |
| 2006 | Driftwood | Nancy Forrester | Film | 4.5 | 62 |
| 2006 | Down the P.C.H. | Wendy O'Hara | Film | 4.3 | 62 |
| 2005 | My Name Is Earl | Paul's Mom | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2005 | Made in Hollywood | Self | TV | 4.7 | 61 |
| 2005 | 2001 Maniacs | Granny Boone | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 2005 | Drop Dead Sexy | Ma Muzzy | Film | 4.9 | 61 |
| 2005 | Confessions of an Action Star | Samantha Jones | Film | 4.3 | 61 |
| 2005 | Born Killers | Willow | Film | 5.3 | 61 |
| 2005 | Hate Crime | Kathleen Slansky | Film | 5.7 | 61 |
| 2004 | A Cinderella Story | Mrs. Wells | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 2004 | Cellular | Exotic Car Driver | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 2004 | Who's Your Daddy? | Ms. Harding | Film | 4.9 | 60 |
| 2004 | The Hillside Strangler | Jenny Buono | Film | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2004 | The Almost Guys | Repo Boss | Film | 6.8 | 60 |
| 2003 | Barely Legal | Tequlia | Film | 5.9 | 59 |
| 2003 | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | Margie | Film | 4.1 | 59 |
| 2003 | Dead End | Laura Harrington | Film | 6.4 | 59 |
| 2003 | Stuck on You | Makeup Babe | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 2003 | ManFast | Marge | Film | 4.1 | 59 |
| 2002 | Boat Trip | Sonya the Coach | Film | 5.2 | 58 |
| 2002 | Wish You Were Dead | Jinny Macintosh | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 2002 | Contagion | Laura Crowley | Film | 4.3 | 58 |
| 2001 | Crossing Jordan | Leather Lauren | TV | 7.2 | 57 |
| 2001 | Say It Isn't So | Nurse Bautista | Film | 4.7 | 57 |
| 2001 | Without Charlie | Film | 4.5 | 57 | |
| 2001 | A Letter from My Father | Elise | Film | — | 57 |
| 2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | Mrs. Caleron | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 2000 | Attention Shoppers | Libby | Film | 4.3 | 56 |
| 1999 | Detroit Rock City | Mrs. Bruce | Film | 6.8 | 55 |
| 1998 | Becker | Mrs. Cooper | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Magda | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1998 | Breakfast with Einstein | Miss Desmond | Film | 4.1 | 54 |
| 1998 | Living Out Loud | Lisa's Nurse | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science | Nurse | TV | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1997 | Trading Favors | Darla | Film | 4.6 | 53 |
| 1996 | Arli$$ | Shurja | TV | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1996 | Last Man Standing | The Madame | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1996 | Kingpin | Landlady | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1996 | Project: ALF | Waitress | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1995 | Trial by Fire | Phyliis Cardell | Film | 5.5 | 51 |
| 1995 | Nature of the Beast | Carol Powell | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 1995 | Sketch Artist II: Hands That See | Bonnie | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1994 | ER | Margaret | TV | 7.8 | 50 |
| 1994 | Dumb and Dumber | Mrs. Neugeboren | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1994 | Wes Craven's New Nightmare | Nurse with Pills | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1994 | My So-Called Life | Parent #2 | TV | 7.7 | 50 |
| 1994 | Corrina, Corrina | Repeat Nanny | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1994 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Rubber Rose Maid | Film | 4.4 | 50 |
| 1994 | Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter | Inmate | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1994 | In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance | Foreman #2 | Film | 5.7 | 50 |
| 1993 | Frasier | Anne | TV | 7.7 | 49 |
| 1993 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Witness | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 1993 | The Temp | Rosemary | Film | 4.8 | 49 |
| 1993 | Three of Hearts | Operator | Film | 4.9 | 49 |
| 1993 | Amityville: A New Generation | Nurse Turner | Film | 4.3 | 49 |
| 1993 | Brain Smasher... A Love Story | Make up Artist | Film | 5.2 | 49 |
| 1992 | Roadside Prophets | Celeste | Film | 5.5 | 48 |
| 1991 | Critters 3 | Sal (archive footage) | Film | 5.3 | 47 |
| 1990 | Pump Up the Volume | PTA Parent #3 | Film | 7.1 | 46 |
| 1990 | Book of Love | Mrs. Flynn | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 1989 | Life Goes On | Parent #2 | TV | 6.6 | 45 |
| 1988 | Critters 2 | Sal | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1988 | Lucky Stiff | Bratty Kid's Mom | Film | 4.6 | 44 |
| 1987 | The Running Man | Propaganda Officer | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Employment Office Clerk | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1987 | The Hidden | Carol Miller | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1987 | Stillwatch | Film | 6.6 | 43 | |
| 1987 | My Demon Lover | Anemic Counter Girl | Film | 5.3 | 43 |
| 1987 | Slam Dance | Librarian | Film | 4.8 | 43 |
| 1987 | Mistress | Woman Customer | Film | 4.2 | 43 |
| 1986 | Critters | Sally | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon") | TV | 7.7 | 41 |
| 1985 | Brewster's Millions | Journalist at Rally | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | Lila Barnes | TV | 7.4 | 40 |
| 1984 | Who's the Boss? | Mrs. Padnick | TV | 7.4 | 40 |
| 1984 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Teacher | Film | 7.3 | 40 |
| 1984 | Summer Fantasy | Woman on Beach | Film | 5.3 | 40 |
| 1984 | Why Me? | Film | 5.6 | 40 | |
| 1982 | Cagney & Lacey | Secretary | TV | 6.9 | 38 |
| 1982 | Alone in the Dark | Receptionist at Haven | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1982 | Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again | Nurse with Telegram | Film | 5.0 | 38 |
| 1981 | Falcon Crest | Smoking Female Prisoner | TV | 5.6 | 37 |
| 1980 | The Long Riders | Kate | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1980 | A Cry for Love | Film | 10.0 | 36 | |
| 1979 | The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal | Freida | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1979 | The Seeding of Sarah Burns | 2nd Nurse | Film | 7.5 | 35 |
| 1978 | Goin' South | Parasol Lady | Film | 5.8 | 34 |
| 1977 | Eight Is Enough | Band Member | TV | 6.2 | 33 |
| 1977 | Sex and the Married Woman | Sandra | Film | 4.0 | 33 |
| 1977 | A Secret Space | Amy | Film | 9.0 | 33 |
| 1975 | Hester Street | Whore | Film | 6.2 | 31 |
| Mascotland | Film | — | — | ||
| Thread: An Insidious Tale | Elise Rainier | Film | — | — | |
| Dead of Nowhere 3D | Meemaw | Film | — | — | |
| The Old World | The Aunt (voice) | Film | — | — | |
| The Possession at Gladstone Manor | Nurse | Film | — | — | |
| Devoted | Aunt Dottie | Film | — | — | |
| Carrier | Joan Pierson | Film | — | — | |
| Before Memory | Film | 1.0 | — | ||
| Jackson's Hole | Netter | Film | — | — | |
| The Bench | Film | — | — |