Acting · age 83

Lin Shaye

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Lin Shaye, acting career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak era

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198465 films2026

Current formLast 5: 5.12 vs career 5.36 (−0.24)

As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

5.36

42 rated films

Vote weighted

5.48

bigger films count more

Median

5.3

half are better

Consistency

±1.14

rating spread

Career

43y

1984 to 2026

Total votes

2.12M

across every film

Best

7.4

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Worst

4.3

The Final Wish

Newest first

Acting filmography

2026	Insidious: Out of the Further	Elise Rainier	6.2	17,395
2025	House of Abraham	Beatrice	·	155
2024	The Last Stand of Ellen Cole	Ellen Cole	6.4	1,350
2024	Scared to Death	Max	·	286
2021	Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman	Mrs. Bundy	4.0	2,214
2020	Dreamkatcher	Ruth	3.8	2,852
2020	The Call	Edith Cranston	4.3	5,920
2020	The Voices	Vagabond	·	856
2020	Darkness Falls	Angela Anderson	4.7	1,589
2019	Ambition	Lady Bum	·	480
2019	Room for Rent	Joyce	5.3	4,709
2019	Get Gone	Mama Maxwell	·	441
2018	Los Angeles Overnight	Cousins	·	498
2018	Insidious: The Last Key	Elise Rainier	5.7	83,133
2018	Gothic Harvest	Griselda	·	466
2018	The Final Wish	Kate Hammond	4.3	7,850
2017	All About the Money	Mrs. Womack	5.1	3,104
2017	Mountain Top	Muriel Miller	7.1	1,119
2017	Grow House	Mrs. Gilliam	·	581
2017	The Black Room	Miss Black	3.4	3,198

Better together?

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

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