{"id":33969,"date":"2017-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/actress-laura-linney-visits-theatre-department\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:51:03","slug":"actress-laura-linney-visits-theatre-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/actress-laura-linney-visits-theatre-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Laura Linney Visits Theatre Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Award-winning actress Laura Linney was on the campus of UNC Charlotte on Thursday, October 19, to address the campus community, conduct a masterclass for acting students, and deliver the Chancellor&#8217;s Speakers Series presentation at UNC Charlotte Center City.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Brown University and the Juilliard School, Linney has won numerous awards for her roles in film, television, and stage productions. Film credits include <em>Mystic River<\/em>, <em>Love Actually,<\/em> and <em>The Truman Show<\/em>. Notable television appearances include the Showtime series <em>The Big C<\/em>, the HBO miniseries <em>John Adams,<\/em> and the current Netflix series <em>Ozark<\/em>. Prominent Broadway productions include <em>The Crucible<\/em> and <em>Six Degrees of Separation<\/em>. Her father, the playwright Romulus Linney, was from a deeply rooted North Carolina (Watauga County) family.<\/p>\n<p>Linney joined Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner for a public conversation on the stage of the Belk Theater in Robinson Hall, then coached acting students in a masterclass. Conner led Linney in another public conversation later that evening for an invited audience uptown. 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