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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

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Laura Linney
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 5
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Manhattan borough
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