Linda Cardellini

Linda Cardellini
Cardellini in 2019
Born
Linda Edna Cardellini

(1975-06-25) June 25, 1975 (age 49)
Redwood City, California, U.S.
Alma materLoyola Marymount University
OccupationActress
Years active1996–present
WorksFull list
Partner(s)Steven Rodriguez (2009–present; engaged)
Children1

Linda Edna Cardellini[1] (born June 25, 1975)[2] is an American actress. In television, she is known for her starring roles as Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Samantha "Sam" Taggart on ER (2003–2009), and Meg Rayburn on Bloodline (2015–2017), as well as her portrayal of Judy Hale on Netflix's Dead to Me (2019–2022), for which she earned a nomination for the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also appeared as Sylvia Rosen on AMC's Mad Men between 2013–2015, receiving an Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

In film, Cardellini is known for her portrayal of Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its 2004 sequel. Her other credits include Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Return (2011), Daddy's Home (2015) and again in Daddy's Home 2 (2017), The Founder (2016), Green Book (2018), A Simple Favor (2018), and The Curse of La Llorona (2019). She also played Laura Barton in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021), as well as voicing and performing motion capture for Lylla in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), making her one of the few actresses to appear as two different characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Early life and education

Linda Edna Cardellini was born on June 25, 1975,[2] in Redwood City, California, United States.[3] Her father, Wayne David Cardellini, is a businessman, and her mother, Lorraine[1] (née Hernan),[citation needed] is a homemaker. She is the youngest of four children.[4] Cardellini is of Italian, Irish, German, and Scottish descent.[5][6] She was raised Catholic.[7] Cardellini made her first public appearance at age ten when she sang in a school play. Subsequently, she acted in several school productions and started taking drama lessons. Cardellini graduated from St. Francis High School in Mountain View in 1993[8] and then moved to Los Angeles to seek roles in television and film.[9] She was a contestant in a 1994 episode of The Price Is Right, winning a fireplace.[10] Cardellini attended Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts, where she graduated with a degree in theater arts in 1997.[11] She was recognized as a "Distinguished Alumna" by the university in 2007.[12]

Career

Cardellini received her first big break role in 1996 as Sarah on ABC's Saturday morning live-action children's series, Bone Chillers. Following this, she made guest appearances on prime-time programs including Step by Step, Clueless, and 3rd Rock from the Sun, and she played Lauren on Boy Meets World, a girl that came between the show's star couple. Cardellini starred in the first season of the AMC series The Lot in 1999,[9] and spent the summer in Europe as part of a touring production of Lancelot, a fourteenth-century Dutch tragedy.[8]

Cardellini in black jeans and off-the-shoulder sleeve top, gesturing palm up to audience
Cardellini as part of "Dr. God", 2010

Cardellini had her first major success when she landed one of the starring roles in the NBC series Freaks and Geeks, which debuted during the 1999–2000 season, playing the role of Lindsay Weir, an honor student in the midst of an identity crisis. Cardellini starred in the live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo in 2002, in which she played the cartoon character Velma Dinkley. She later reprised the role of Velma in 2004's Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. She joined the cast of the hospital drama ER in 2003 as Samantha Taggart, a free-spirited nurse. Cardellini acted for six seasons on ER until the series finale, "And in the End...", and with the cast won the TV Land ensemble Icon Award in 2009.[13]

Cardellini wearing a violet sleeveless wrap, hair in a shoulder-length feather cut
Cardellini at the 2011 Deauville American Film Festival

Her other film work includes roles in Dead Man on Campus, Strangeland, Good Burger, Legally Blonde, Brokeback Mountain (for which she was nominated for the ensemble Gotham[14] and Screen Actors Guild awards),[15] and a starring role in the Happy Madison film Grandma's Boy as Samantha. She was the voice of Ursula in the role-playing video game Gladius and played the voice of Bliss Goode on the ABC animated series The Goode Family. In 2007, Cardellini was chosen to play lovelorn Clara in the CBS miniseries Comanche Moon, a prequel to 1989's Lonesome Dove.[16]

In 2010 and 2011, Cardellini returned to the stage with the Dr. God comedy group in Los Angeles and San Francisco,[17][18] appeared in Kill the Irishman and Super, and starred in the independent film Return. She appeared with cast members and producers of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared at the Paley Center for Media PaleyFest on March 12, 2011.[19][20] From 2012 to 2016, she provided the voice of Wendy Corduroy on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls.

Cardellini voice acts periodically on the podcast and live show The Thrilling Adventure Hour, on the Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars segments.[21][22] In 2013, she was chosen to play Sylvia Rosen, a love interest of Don Draper on Mad Men. For her performance on Mad Men, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In 2015, she played Hawkeye's wife Laura Barton in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a role she reprised in the 2019 sequel Avengers: Endgame, which was briefly the highest-grossing film of all time. Starting in 2015, she joined Kyle Chandler on a new Netflix drama series Bloodline, from the creators of Damages.[23] The show was canceled in 2016, and ended after its third season.[24] That same year, she also had a starring role as Sara Whitaker in the comedy film Daddy's Home. In 2017, she reprised her role in the sequel film Daddy's Home 2.

In August 2018, Cardellini was cast to co-star with Christina Applegate in Netflix's dark comedy series Dead to Me.[25] It premiered on May 3, 2019.[26] For her performance, she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. That same year, she co-starred with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in the film Green Book, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In 2019, she starred in the horror film The Curse of La Llorona.[27] In 2020, Cardellini appeared in the biographical drama film Capone as Mae Capone, the wife of the title character.[28]

In 2021, she reprised her role of Laura Barton in the Marvel Studios show Hawkeye, which premiered on Disney+ in November 2021.

Personal life

Cardellini dated her Freaks and Geeks co-star Jason Segel for several years following the show's cancellation in 2000.[29] She and her boyfriend Steven Rodriguez announced her pregnancy in October 2011.[30] Cardellini gave birth to their daughter in February 2012.[31] She and Rodriguez became engaged in June 2013.[32]

Filmography

Main article: List of Linda Cardellini performances

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2005 Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Cast Brokeback Mountain Nominated [33]
2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated [34]
2009 TV Land Awards Icon Award ER Won [35]
2013 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Mad Men Nominated [36]
Independent Spirit Awards Best Female Lead Return Nominated [37]
2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Frightened Performance The Curse of La Llorona Nominated [38]
2020 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Comedy Series Dead to Me Nominated [36]
[39]
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
2021 Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series Nominated [40]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated [41]
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated

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