Linda Shaye is an American actress born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. She started out playing small roles in several movies, beginning with the Jack Nicholson-directed Western "Goin' South" in 1978. She has since appeared in a large number of character roles. Many were for her brother, Robert Shaye, co-founder and current co-CEO of New Line Cinema, such as her role as Mrs. Flynn in the 1990 film Book of Love, which Robert Shaye directed. Wikipedia
Younger sister of New Line Cinema founder & CEO Robert Shaye. Is the only actor to appear in both Dumb & Dumber (1994) and the prequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003). www.imdb.com/name/nm0005417/
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