After her high school graduation, Cardellini moved to Los Angeles and continued her theater studies at Loyola Marymount University. Bill would become a late-blooming jock under the care of Coach Fredricks, who might have become his stepfather. Her voice work includes the animated series Scooby-Doo! She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish (from her mother), German, English, and Scottish descent. The actor: After a few small roles playing a teenager in various high-school comedies, Linda Cardellini found mainstream success playing Lindsay Weir . In television, she is known for her leading roles in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks (19992000), the medical drama ER (200309), the drama thriller Bloodline (201517), and the tragicomedy Dead to Me (20192022), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Busy Phillips (Kim Kelly) originally auditioned for the role of Lindsay Weir. Daley was 14 in real life and on TV. Click here to cancel reply. They also avoided shooting outdoors whenever possible. Linda Edna Cardellini (Redwood City, 25 de junho de 1975) uma atriz americana.Atualmente mais conhecida pelo seu papel como Velma Dinkley no filme Scooby-Doo, por interpretar Laura Barton, tambm conhecida como agente 19 no Universo Cinematogrfico da Marvel atravs de gavio arqueiro, a adolescente Wendy Corduroy na srie de animao Gravity Falls, a colegial Lindsay Weir no . [28] She gave birth to their daughter in February 2012. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks, Green Book, Mad Men) began crushing on her fianc, Steven Rodriguez, when she was 10 years old and he was 11.The couple welcomed their daughter, Lilah Rose, on February 29, 2012, and got engaged a year later in summer 2013. Sam was going to find his voice as a drama geek, while Neal joined the school chorus. 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Although the series only lasted for one season, it helped launch the careers of countless A-list stars. They didn't get together until roughly three years before their 2013 engagement, after years of friendship. Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini dated from March, 2001 to January, 2007.. On Screen Matchups. Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000) This is where it all started for Linda Cardellini. And I ran into Linda at the airport, we were both picking up friends and taking them back to LMU, and she was like, I just got Lindsay, you have to be Kim! Also when Seinfeld was on, it was always, like, Did you hear what George said last night? Thats the problem with TV now making it so that things have to hit after a few weeks, because it means you have to make friends immediately which is why the network wants actors to be beautiful, because you become infatuated with them, and youll watch week after week because theyre beautiful and theyre your surrogate boyfriend/girlfriend stated the producer. She started off in the 1996 series Bone Chillers and from there went on to guest roles in such iconic '90s shows as 3rd Rock from the Sun, Clueless, Step by Step, Kenan & Kel, and Boy Meets World not to mention her role in Freaks and Geeks. Linda Cardellini got her start in the acting industry in the '90s, and her star has been on the rise ever since. The former "geek" popped up in Judd Apatow's comedy films "Knocked Up" and "Superbad. Rarely have we rooted for a character as much as we did Lindsay Weir in the peerless Freaks . Cardellini also grew up with a close bond with her siblings. As the days pass, Martin Starr would be cast in an as-yet-untitled Wayne Newman Knight pilot, John Francis Daley in the new Geena Davis sitcom, Samm Levine in a project from King of the Hills Greg Daniels. ", Even though the show lasted for just one season, it's still a fan favorite. Then she made appearances in the drama thriller Bloodline (2015-17), the . Gravity Falls (2012-2016) Disney+. She also recently appeared in the Oscar best-picture winner "Green Book. Some of the cast came by the office to watch the show. Linda Cardellini, then 24, played his 16-year-old sister Lindsay. Which is to say, they wanted to make it about all the dark, awful stuff they too had lived. [23] It premiered on May 3, 2019. ", Fans also came to love him for his role in the film "I Love You, Man.". 8. Cardellini met her fianc when she was just 10 years old and when he was only 11. Not only did she become responsible for another human being, but having a baby also changed her approach to her career. Linda Cardellini didnt take the offer and came home with $35 for being on set for the whole day. As noted by Rolling Stone, Cardellini acted in her school Christmas show before then playing an elderly woman in a production of The Music Man when she was 11 years old. Things seemed to go downhill from there. Freaks and Geeks costars Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini dated from March 2001 to January 2007. Following his role on "Freaks and Geeks," Segel portrayed the lovable lawyer Marshall Eriksen on the critically acclaimed CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother. Born in June 1975, Linda Cardellini is an American actress. Cardellini admitted that she has no idea what the finished product looks like. Apatow is known to use the same actors in his movies and TV projects, as witnessed by Segel and Rogen in both Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. The long overdue "Freaks and Geeks" renaissance of 2021 has perhaps made the show even more relevant than it ever was, connecting disparate generations in ways that have helped to briefly . ", Some fans may recognize her as Velma from The "Scooby-Doo" movies. While celebrity marriages are notorious for often being short-lived, Linda Cardellini seems to have found a fairy tale love with her longtime beau, Steven Rodriguez. And, in 2018, five women accused Franco of engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior. Freaks and Geeks She was 24 years old ER She was . NBC's "Freaks and Geeks" is about outcast teenagers navigating their way through high school. As the youngest of four, as well as the youngest of many cousins, she grew up as "the baby of the entire family" and had plenty of relatives to look up to in a crowded but loving home. Jason Segel. "She had tremendous stage presence even when she was very young," the director of her youth theater group told SFGate. She won a TV Land Icon Award, . The entire experience, as Cardellini described it to Backstage, sounds a bit awkward. When producers couldn't get the licensing rights for episode 15, they replaced it with Dean Martin's "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You.". That same year, she co-starred with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in the film Green Book, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Mad Men (2013 . She said that the friendship between Jen and Judy really has "a lot of texture" because of her friendship with Applegate, who was a big part of why Cardellini wanted to do the show. After the show ended, Rogen's comedy-acting career skyrocketed as he appeared in many of Judd Apatow's most iconic films, including "Anchorman," "Knocked Up," and "Funny People. , and homewrecking. In the Freaks and Geeks TV series, Linda Cardellini was a regular cast member, and she portrayed Lindsay Weir . The young cast still dropped by the office, although often on their way to or from an audition for another show. "We're still very close," she said. I find it kind of wired how the dude who played Neal was the same age as Seth rogen. [6], Cardellini was a contestant in a 1994 episode of The Price Is Right, winning a fireplace. She began dating Steven Rodriguez in 2009, giving birth to their first child, a daughter, in February 2012. Even 22 years on, folks still remember Freaks and Geeks, the tragically short-lived teen comedy-drama that helped . Time called Freaks and Geeks the best fall drama aimed at any demographic, Rolling Stone thought it stunningly funny and moving and Talk a minor vrit masterpiece. The September 25 premiere did well enough better demographically than any NBC premiere had done in that spot since 1991 that the word hit was tentatively applied, but the next week was not nearly so well attended, and after that the clouds of doom never really dispersed. He hasn't acted in many major projects since. At the start of the show, Lindsay (played by Linda Cardellini) had left the geeks for the freaks, abandoning the mathletes and Uno nights with her former best friend Millie to go see the Who and . Even though she is best known for her television and film roles, Linda Cardelliniactually started her acting career on the stage. She is portrayed by Linda Cardellini . She added that being a mom hasn't just influenced how she approaches new roles but also how she views past roles. The show accurately depicted the sad, hilarious unfairness of teen life - and we . Linda Cardellini: her birthday, what she did before fame, her family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. "I'm so proud of it," the actress told Elle. Starting in 2015, she joined Kyle Chandler on a new Netflix drama series Bloodline, from the creators of Damages. Cardellini said she was terrified of destroying the gorgeous costumes because she "was breastfeeding and pumping" at the time. She is currently 44 years old. "Nobody was looking for a pregnant woman," Cardellini told Backstage. Judd Apatow thought it was hilariously badexactly like something a geek would do. He recently appeared on AMC's "Dispatches from Elsewhere. I cant control what people think, Segel told the Los Angeles Times in 2008. Rose to fame with her starring role as Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks. Whats the most humiliating thing that happened to you in high school? Before Freaks and Geeks, Cardellini had a few roles on sitcoms, including Boy Meets World. While this led to a lot of nerves Cardellini said she was "mortified" that she was the only one who turned up in costume she ended up nailing the audition, although she didn't "know if I was doing a good job or a bad job" and "felt horribly uncomfortable" through the whole process. Even if you don't recognize Linda Cardellini's face, there's a good chance that you're familiar with her distinctive voice. The book Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence, published in 2002, revisits the teen angst that made Freaks and Geeks so funny and relatable. Instead, Linda Cardellini chose to focus on honing her skills of acting and do what I see on this page, instead of do what people want to see and before she knew it, she was cast as Lindsay Weir. Three of these episodes never aired until Fox syndicated the show. Jason Segel and Seth Rogen improvised new jokes when they rehearsed on weekends. ' Cardellini, whod already been on a bunch of TV shows, said shed teach her the ropes. All of these small delicious details we love about the underrated TV show was picked up on by the young Linda Cardellini. In 2015, she played Hawkeye's wife Laura Barton in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a role she reprised in the 2019 sequel Avengers: Endgame, which was briefly the highest-grossing film of all time. Even though she and Busy Phillips were both being told by studio executives to hold out for better jobs, Linda Cardellini loved the script for being unlike anything that she ever read. Not to forget that she had the help of the creators who worked backward, inventing characters to suit the actors they found; by the time the cameras rolled, the pilot had been two-thirds rewritten. She even still has an important piece of Freaks and Geeks history: Lindsay's army-green jacket. Despite everything the young cast remains in touch as documented by Starr and Seth Rogen even going to find an apartment together and Freaks and Geeks, back then held an option on their services until June 15. Yep, Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Lindsay Weir the brilliant mathlete former geek turned freak, Sylvia Rosen, a love interest of Don Draper on Mad Men and playing the part of Hawkeyes wife in Avengers would all cease to exist if Linda Cardellini never auditioned for the TV show Freaks and Geeks. She appeared with cast members and producers of Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared at the Paley Center for Media PaleyFest on March 12, 2011. ", In the years since, she appeared on a few TV series and starred in a few shorts, like "Breaking Fat.". Compared to the other actors, Linda stated that during their group auditioning, others were bringing things to the table that were different from their scripts and it was so creative. [24] For her performance, she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Linda Cardellini's breakout role as Lindsay Weir on the cult classic Freaks and Geeks is still one of her most iconic. Cardellini said she and two other girls had to say "catchphrases that seemed very American" like, "Oh, he's your baby, he's your honey," and "Oh cool," while wearing "nude-colored bathing suits" to advertise the soap. From 2007 to 2014, Daley portrayed Dr. Lance Sweets on the Fox drama series "Bones. People who knew Cardellini in her younger years say that her star power was evident from childhood. Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. ", He also starred in the comedy films "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "The Five Year Engagement," "The Muppets," and "Sex Tape. There's still some hope that Freaks and Geeks might come back someday, albeit with a new cast. "I haven't been in a situation with a woman who is my own peer and been able to play like that every single day on set," she said. While she's a respected television star these days, Linda Cardellini's TV debut wasn't actually an acting role. From 'Freaks and Geeks' to gangster molls, Scooby-Doo sidekicks to 'Dead to Me'Linda Cardellini breaks down her 10 best TV and movie rolls. She's perfectly cast here as Kelli, a National Guard reservist and married mother of two. ", As of late, she stars opposite Christina Applegate on Netflix's dark comedy "Dead To Me.". Neither Feig nor any of the writers had ever dated someone with ambiguous genitalia like Ken (Seth Rogen) did in episode 17. Between his unusually tall stature, massive spectacles, and bizarre commentary, Bill was the geekiest of his friends. The actress said that working with Applegate is a unique experience. But all I could think was: This is hilarious. She played the lead characters in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks from 1999 to 2002. a singing role in a school Christmas play. That said, his rise to fame has not been without controversy. Currently, Franco is being sued by two former students of his now-defunct acting school.