Linda Cardellini

At 49 years old, Linda Cardellini has this physical status:

Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is an American actress.

She is best known for her appearances in Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), the medical drama ER (2003–09), and the dark tragicomedy Dead to Me (2019–present) on television.

She also appeared in the period drama Mad Men (2013–15), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination.

Cardellini's voice talents include the animated film Scooby-Doo! Myster Incorporated (2010–13), a charitable corporation (2012–15), and Gravity Falls (2012–16), and Sanjay and Craig (2013–16). Cardellini is best known for her role in Scooby-Doo (2004) and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2): Monsters Unleashed (2004), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

She has also appeared in the drama Return (2011), winning an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination, the comedy Daddy's Home (2015), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017), and La Llorona's The Curse of La Llorona (2019).

Early life and education

Cardellini was born in Redwood City, California, the daughter of Lorraine Cardellini (née Hernan), a homemaker, and Wayne David Cardellini, a businessman. She is the youngest of four children. Cardellini is of Italian, Irish, German, and Scottish descent. She was born Catholic. She made her first public appearance at age ten when she participated in a school play for the first time at age 10. She appeared in several school productions and began attending drama lessons. In 1993, she graduated from nearby Mount View's Catholic St. Francis High School, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue television and film roles.

Cardellini won a fireplace in 1994 on The Price Is Right contest.

She attended Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts, graduating in 1997 with a degree in theatre arts. The university named her as a "Distinguished Alumna" in 2007.

Personal life

Following the show's cancellation, Cardellini dated Freaks and Geeks co-star Jason Segel for five years. Cardellini and her partner Steven Rodriguez reported their pregnancy in October 2011. In February 2012, Cardellini gave birth to their daughter. In June 2013, Cardellini and Rodriguez became engaged.

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Career

Cardellini appeared on ABC's Saturday morning live action children's series "Bone Chillers" for her first big break role in 1996. Lauren, the show's leading lady, made guest appearances on prime-time shows including Step by Step, Clueless, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Boy Meets World as Lauren, a girl who appeared between the show's stars. Cardellini appeared in the first season of AMC's The Lot in 1999 and spent the summer in Europe as part of a touring production of Lancelot, a fourteenth-century Dutch tragedy.

Cardellini made her first big success when she secured one of the main roles in the NBC series Freaks and Geeks, which debuted during the 1999–2000 season. Cardellini, an honor student in the middle of an identity crisis, received a positive response that later catapulted her to fame. In 2002, Cardellini appeared in the live-action version of Scooby-Doo, in which she played the cartoon character Velma Dinkley. Velma played the role in 2004's Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Samantha Taggart, a free-spirited nurse, appeared on the cast of the hospital drama ER in 2003. Cardellini appeared on ER for six seasons until "And in the End," the series's conclusion, and the cast received the TV Land ensemble Icon Award in 2009.

Samantha's other film work includes appearances in Dead Man on Campus, Strangeland, Good Burger, Legally Blonde, Brokeback Mountain (for which she was nominated for the ensemble Gotham and Screen Actor Guild awards), and a supporting role in the Happy Madison film Grandma's Boy. She appeared in the role-playing video game Gladius and appeared as Bliss Goode in ABC's animated film The Goode Family. Cardellini was selected to appear lovelorn Clara in the CBS miniseries Comanche Moon, a prequel to 1989's Lonesome Dove.

Cardellini appeared in Kill the Irishman and Superman, as well as in the independent film Return to the stage in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2010. On March 12, 2011, she appeared with cast members and producers of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared at the Paley Center for Media PaleyFest. Wendy was Wendy on the Disney Channel show Gravity Falls from June 15, 2012, to February 15, 2016.

On the Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars segments, a Cardellini voice appears on the podcast and live show The Thrilling Adventure Hour. She was selected to perform Sylvia Rosen, a love interest of Don Draper on Mad Men in 2013. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her appearance on Mad Men. She appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a comedy in which she appeared for a brief period of all time. Kyle Chandler appeared on a new Netflix drama series Bloodline, created by Damages' creators. In 2016, the show was cancelled and it came to an end after its third season. Sara Whitaker appeared in the comedy film Daddy's Home for the second year in the same year. She reprised her role in Daddy's Home 2 in 2017.

In August 2018, Cardellini was invited to co-star with Christina Applegate in Netflix's new dark comedy series Dead to Me. On May 3, 2019, it debuted on May 3, 2019. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance and honors. In the film Green Book, which received the Academy Award for Best Picture that year, she co-starred with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

She appeared in the horror film The Curse of La Llorona in 2019. Cardellini appeared in Capone's biographical drama film Mae Capone as Mae Capone, the wife of the title character.

Laura Barton played Laura Barton in the Marvel Studios show Hawkeye, which premiered on Disney+ in November 2021.

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