Laura Linney Wins Golden Globe for THE BIG C

Stage and screen star Laura Linney has won a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy' for her performance in THE BIG C. 

Linney's extensive stage credits on Broadway and elsewhere include Hedda Gabler (for which she won a 1994 Joe A. Callaway Award), Holiday (based on the 1938 movie starring Katharine Hepburn), and her Best Actress Tony Award-nominated 2002 role in The Crucible (where she appeared alongside future The Exorcism Of Emily Rose co-star Jennifer Carpenter). She was nominated again in 2005 for Sight Unseen.

In 2010, Linney had a three month run on Broadway in the drama Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies. She was nominated for a 2010 Tony award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. It was announced on May 5, 2010 that Time Stands Still will return to Broadway with most of the cast from the Manhattan Theatre Club run intact.

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