# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lin-shaye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:55:10.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lin-shaye"
name: "Lin Shaye"
slug: "lin-shaye"
description: "Lin Shaye is an American actress. In a career spanning over 50 years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2020), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lin_Shaye_at_53rd_Saturn_Awards_2026.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.21
  momentum:             16.80784981364745
  historical:           24.11433066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005417/"
    handle:    "nm0005417"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lin Shayová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump