Linda Emond is a distinguished American actor whose career spans film, television, and theater. She has collaborated with some of the industry’s most acclaimed directors including Mike Nichols, Ang Lee, Terrence Malick, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Lila Neugebauer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sam Mendes, James Schamus, Jason Bateman, Nora Ephron, Julie Taymor, John Turturro, Kimberly Peirce, Niki Caro, Bob Balaban, Simon McBurney, Ed Harris, Peter Berg, Michael Showalter, and Hiro Murai.
Her recent feature work includes The Bride!, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Threshold (short), the A24 drama Causeway opposite Jennifer Lawrence, Netflix’s The Unforgivable, Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, Michael Showalter’s acclaimed The Big Sick, and Terrence Malick’s Song to Song. Other notable films include Indignation, Three Generations, The Family Fang, Jenny’s Wedding, Spike Lee’s Oldboy, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia opposite Meryl Streep, Stop-Loss, Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, North Country, and City by the Sea, opposite Robert DeNiro.
On television, Linda is currently working on Peacock’s The Miniature Wife (recurring). She was recently seen as Donna DeMeo in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building (recurring; SAG Award nominee), as Agent Hilde Eriksen in Hulu’s Death and Other Details (series regular), and as Candace Fortner opposite Steve Carell in Hulu/FX’s The Patient (series regular). Other episodic television includes recurring roles in Succession, The Gilded Age, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife/The Good Fight, and Lodge 49, in which she was a series regular. She has also appeared in The Sopranos, and in multiple episodes on all four Law & Order series (recurring). Television film work includes Georgia O’Keeffe, opposite Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons, A Dog Named Christmas, opposite Bruce Greenwood, and American Experience: John & Abigail Adams, opposite Simon Russell Beale.
On Broadway, Linda has starred in Death of a Salesman opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Mike Nichols, Cabaret, directed by Sam Mendes, Life x 3 with John Turturro, Helen Hunt, and Brent Spiner, and 1776, again opposite Mr. Spiner.
She has long collaborated with Tony Kushner, beginning with his play Homebody/Kabul, which spanned five years and three major productions. Her off-Broadway work also includes appearing opposite Al Pacino in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and in premieres by Craig Lucas, Yasmina Reza, Kander and Ebb, A.R. Gurney, Peter Hedges, and Kushner.
In London, Linda starred in The Master Builder at The Old Vic, opposite Ralph Fiennes.
Linda has been nominated for three Tony Awards and has received an Obie Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Backstage West Garland Award, two Chicago Jeff Awards, along with nominations for the Drama Desk, Drama League, LA Drama Critics and LA Ovation Awards, as well as a SAG Award nomination.