- Born
- Birth nameLinda Marie Emond
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Linda Emond is a three-time Tony Award nominee and is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and an Obie. She works in film, television, theatre and voiceover, across genres, in roles that are often transformational. She was born in New Jersey but grew up in Southern California. She attended Loara High School (where she was Homecoming Queen) and received her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her first professional job as an actor was at The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle. She went on to work extensively in Chicago and ultimately in New York City.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jean E.
- In each of her first two Broadway appearances, she played the love interest of characters played by Brent Spiner. The first was in a musical (1776) and the second was in a non-musical play (Life x 3).
- She has been nominated for Broadway Tony awards three separate times in 10 years, for both straight plays and musicals (Life x 3, Death of a Salesman, and Cabaret).
- For her work in Chicago, she was nominated 5 times for Joseph Jefferson Awards, winning it twice for her work in "Pygmalion" and "The Winter's Tale".
- She was nominated for a 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Tartuffe" at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- Her father was of half French-Canadian and half Polish descent. Her mother has German and English ancestry, with Colonial American roots.
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