BlackTree TV covers The 80th Annual Academy Awards

Best Actress

Laura Linney

Laura Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father is the prominent playwright Romulus Linney. Linney's world revolved, in part, around his profession from the earliest age. She graduated from Brown University in 1986 and studied acting at Julliard and the Arts Theatre School in Moscow and, thereafter, embarked on a career on the Broadway stage receiving favorable notices for her work in such plays as "Hedda Gabler" and "Six Degrees of Separation".

Cate Blanchett

Marion Cotillard

Julie Christie

Ellen Page

The Savages

When encroaching dementia makes it impossible for Lenny Savage to live independently, his children, Wendy and John, move him from Arizona to Buffalo, where John is a writer and college professor. As Wendy begins to criticize the nursing home John has chosen, the stress of dealing with their elderly father wears on the already tentative relationship between brother and sister.

Cast

Laura Linney
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Bosco
Peter Friedman
David Zayas
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Cara Seymour
Tonye Patano
Guy Boyd
Debra Monk
Rosemary Murphy

Production Team

Directed and Written by Tamara Jenkins