Lin Shaye
Biography
Movies 189
Insidious: Out of the Further
as Elise Rainier
2026
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Teacher
1984
Insidious
as Elise Rainier
2011
Dumb and Dumber
as Mrs. Neugeboren
1994
Insidious: The Red Door
as Elise Rainier
2023
Insidious: Chapter 2
as Elise Rainier
2013
There's Something About Mary
as Magda
1998
Insidious: Chapter 3
as Elise Rainier
2015
Insidious: The Last Key
as Elise Rainier
2018
A Cinderella Story
as Mrs. Wells
2004
The Running Man
as Propaganda Officer
1987
Me, Myself & Irene
as Mrs. Caleron
2000
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
as Ellen
2024
Brewster's Millions
as Journalist at Rally
1985
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
as Nurse with Pills
1994
Snakes on a Plane
as Grace
2006
My Sister's Keeper
as Nurse Adele
2009
Ouija
as Paulina Zander
2014
Cellular
as Exotic Car Driver
2004
Ouija: Origin of Evil
as Old Paulina Zander
2016
The Three Stooges
as Nurse Crotchet
2012
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
as Margie
2003
The Signal
as Mirabelle
2014
The Long Riders
as Kate
1980
Last Man Standing
as The Madame
1996
Kingpin
as Landlady
1996
Critters
as Sally
1986
Critters 3
as Sal (archive footage)
1991
The Grudge
as Faith Matheson
2019
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Witness
1993
Barely Legal
as Tequlia
2003
Boat Trip
as Sonya the Coach
2002
The Hidden
as Carol Miller
1987
Pump Up the Volume
as PTA Parent #3
1990
Frank and Penelope
as Ophelia
2022
Critters 2
as Sal
1988
Detroit Rock City
as Mrs. Bruce
1999
Dead End
as Laura Harrington
2003
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
as Dody
2011
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
2010
2001 Maniacs
as Granny Boone
2005
Say It Isn't So
as Nurse Bautista
2001
Stuck on You
as Makeup Babe
2003
Extreme Prejudice
as Employment Office Clerk
1987
The Midnight Man
as Anna
2016
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
as Mrs. Bundy
2021
Corrina, Corrina
as Repeat Nanny
1994
Abattoir
as Allie
2016
Big Ass Spider!
as Mrs. Jefferson
2013
Goin' South
as Parasol Lady
1978
The Call
as Edith Cranston
2020
Chillerama
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
2011
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as Rubber Rose Maid
1994
Alone in the Dark
as Receptionist at Haven
1982
Confessions of an Action Star
as Samantha Jones
2005
Asylum
as String's Mother
2008
The Black Room
as Miss Black
2017
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
as Clara
2006
Who's Your Daddy?
as Ms. Harding
2004
Project: ALF
as Waitress
1996
Take Me Home
as Jill
2011
My Demon Lover
as Anemic Counter Girl
1987
Amityville: A New Generation
as Nurse Turner
1993
Tales of Halloween
as Lynn's Mother
2015
The Temp
as Rosemary
1993
Nature of the Beast
as Carol Powell
1995
Pledge This!
as Miss Prin
2007
Buster's Mal Heart
as Pauline
2017
Dreamkatcher
as Ruth
2020
All About the Money
as Mrs. Womack
2017
Homo Erectus
as Museum Guide
2007
Director's Cut
as Captain Wheeler
2016
Rosewood Lane
as Mrs. Hawthorne
2011
Mountain Top
as Muriel Miller
2017
Small Town Saturday Night
as Phyllis Ryan
2010
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
as Nurse with Telegram
1982
Grace
as Helen
2014
The Final Wish
as Kate Hammond
2019
Jewtopia
as Dr. Sutton
2012
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
as Granny Boone
2010
Crazy Kind of Love
as Denise Mack
2013
Bachelor Party Vegas
as Cassandra
2006
Drop Dead Sexy
as Ma Muzzy
2005
Roadside Prophets
as Celeste
1992
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
2022
Book of Love
as Mrs. Flynn
1990
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Inmate
1994
Texas Heart
as Mrs. Smith
2016
American Cowslip
as Lou Anne
2009
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
as The Grand Lady
2015
Darkness Falls
as Angela Anderson
2020
The Quarry: Movie Mode
as Constance Hackett
2022
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
as Mrs. Wylder
2020
A Letter from My Father
as Elise
2001
Living with Chucky
as Self
2022
Matchmaker Santa
as Debbie
2012
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
as Make up Artist
1993
Hoboken Hollow
as Mrs. Brodrick
2006
We Are Gathered Here Today
as Jean Cole
2022
Jack Goes Home
as Teresa
2016
Trading Favors
as Darla
1997
The Horror Crowd
as Self
2020
Room for Rent
as Joyce
2019
Wish You Were Dead
as Jinny Macintosh
2002
Summer Fantasy
as Woman on Beach
1984
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
as Bonnie
1995
The Land of the Astronauts
2010
The Hidden II
as Carol Miller (archive footage)
1993
Hate Crime
as Kathleen Slansky
2005
Hester Street
as Whore
1975
Stillwatch
1987
Life's an Itch
as Gloria
2012
Contagion
as Laura Crowley
2002
Living Out Loud
as Lisa's Nurse
1998
Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
as Helen Keller
2015
Sex and the Married Woman
as Sandra
1977
FDR: American Badass!
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2012
Three of Hearts
as Operator
1993
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
as 2nd Nurse
1979
Driftwood
as Nancy Forrester
2006
The Hillside Strangler
as Jenny Buono
2004
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
as Freida
1979
Lucky Stiff
as Bratty Kid's Mom
1988
Mascotland
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
as Foreman #2
1994
Slam Dance
as Librarian
1987
Surf School
as Larry's Mom
2006
Trial by Fire
as Phyliis Cardell
1995
Attention Shoppers
as Libby
2000
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
as Self
2008
All American Christmas Carol
as Barbara Belnap
2013
Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
as Self
2007
Killer by Nature
as Leona
2010
Pines
as Julie (voice)
2022
Noobz
as Mrs. Theodore
2013
Killer Pad
as Marge
2008
Farewell Mr. Kringle
as Zelda
2010
Dark Moon Rising
as Sunny
2009
I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
Grow House
as Mrs. Gilliam
2017
Lost Time
as Mysterious Woman
2014
Unbeatable Harold
as Jeannie
2006
The Penthouse
as Frances
2010
The Voices
as The Vagabond
2020
The Possession at Gladstone Manor
as Nurse
Herbert West: Reanimator
as Meredith
2018
VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
as The Lush
2010
Los Angeles Overnight
as Cousins
2018
Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
as Self
2007
The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
as Self
2007
Scared to Death
as Max
2026
Ambition
as Lady Bum
2019
Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
as Self
2006
Get Gone
as Mama
2019
Mistress
as Woman Customer
1987
Born Killers
as Willow
2005
1000 Women in Horror
as Self
2025
3 Days of Normal
as May
2012
Waffle Hut
as Jerrie Wolf
2012
ManFast
as Marge
2003
The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue
as Mrs. Rawlings
2010
Sedona
as Claire
2011
Goldberg - P.I.
as Violet
2011
Next Stop Murder
as Detective Reeson
2010
Remote
as Kane
2022
House of Abraham
2025
The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2
as Self
2018
Pickin' and Grinnin'
as Bonnie Johnson
2010
A Cry for Love
1980
Breakfast with Einstein
as Miss Desmond
1998
Stuntmen
as Bumble Jackson
2009
Devoted
as Aunt Dottie
They Bite!: The Making of Critters
as Self
2018
Gothic Harvest
as Griselda
2019
Why Me?
1984
Dead of Nowhere 3D
as Meemaw
Doggie Heaven
as Woman
2008
Down the P.C.H.
as Wendy O'Hara
2006
Without Charlie
2001
The Bench
The Almost Guys
as Repo Boss
2004
The Election
as The Wife
2007
Carrier
as Joan Pierson
Jackson's Hole
as Netter
Chronic Town
as Nurse
2008
Chasing Robert
as Martha the Bookie
2007
Before Memory
A Secret Space
as Amy
1977
The Old World
as The Aunt (voice)
TV Shows 25
Frasier
as Anne
1993
ER
as Margaret
1994
Falcon Crest
as Smoking Female Prisoner
1981
Crossing Jordan
as Leather Lauren
2001
Private Practice
as Mrs. Taylor
2007
My Name Is Earl
as Paul's Mom
2005
Who's the Boss?
as Mrs. Padnick
1984
Highway to Heaven
as Lila Barnes
1984
The Twilight Zone
as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
1985
Cagney & Lacey
as Secretary
1982
Becker
as Mrs. Cooper
1998
Eight Is Enough
as Band Member
1977
Arli$$
as Shurja
1996
Made in Hollywood
as Self
2005
Life Goes On
as Parent #2
1989
Common Side Effects
as Sonia (voice)
2025
Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self
2018
My So-Called Life
as Parent #2
1994
Perversions of Science
as Nurse
1997
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
as Dottie Minter
2020
EastSiders
as Diane
2012
Behind the Monsters
as Self
2021
Dead Talk Live
as Self - Guest
2020
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
as Self - Presenter
2021
Insidious: Spectral Sightings
as Elise
2013