The best Laura Linney movies and TV shows include several award-winning films and one of the best TV series of the last decade. Linney studied acting at the Julliard School and made her New York stage debut in 1990. She then got some early movie parts in popular films like Lorenzo’s Oil and Searching for Bobby Fisher before she got her first major TV role in Tales of the City, which she reprised a few years later in the follow-up, More Tales from the City. From there, she started getting regular movie work.