Hamish Linklater

Hamish Linklater

Born: July 7, 1976
in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Hamish Linklater (born July 7, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine, Porter Collins in The Big Short, and Clark Debussy in Legion. He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater. In 2021, he starred as Father Paul in the Netflix horror miniseries Midnight Mass, for which he received high critical acclaim.

Movies for Hamish Linklater...

Title: Manhunt
Character: Abraham Lincoln
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: TV
A conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history. This is the astonishing story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination—as the fate of the country hangs in the balance.
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Downtown Owl
Title: Downtown Owl
Character: Principal Valentine
Released: June 8, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitch, depressed backup quarterback star player-power-horse; and newly appointed high school English teacher Julia – along with those of the town's other residents, are upended by a historic whiteout blizzard.
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Dead for a Dollar
Title: Dead for a Dollar
Character: Martin Kidd
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
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Title: Angelyne
Character: Rick Krause
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: TV
A mysterious blonde bombshell takes over Los Angeles billboards in the mid-80s, ushering in the era of famous-for-being-famous influencer culture.
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Title: Gaslit
Character: Jeb Magruder
Released: April 24, 2022
Type: TV
A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.
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Title: Midnight Mass
Character: Father Paul Hill
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: TV
An unsettling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes – and a miracle occurs.
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Title: Tell Me Your Secrets
Character: John
Released: February 19, 2021
Type: TV
A complex thriller revolving around three characters, each with troubling pasts clouding their intersecting motives: Emma is a young woman who once loved a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate for redemption, and a grieving mother Mary who is obsessed with finding her missing daughter.
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Title: The Stand
Character: Dr. Jim Ellis
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: TV
In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
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Title: Monsterland
Character: Joe Keller
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: TV
In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives, ultimately showing there is a thin line between man and beast.
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10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up
Title: 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up
Character: Benjamin
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
After Abigail, a single mom of two, becomes pregnant following a one-night stand with Ben, the unlikely pair try to make a go of it.
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Paper Year
Title: Paper Year
Character: Noah Bearinger
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Young newlyweds encounter a series of challenges during the first year of their marriage.
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You Can't Say No
Title: You Can't Say No
Character: Miles
Released: March 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Just days from signing divorce papers, Hank and Alexandra give their relationship one final shot by playing a game with only one rule: no matter what they ask each other to do, they can't say no.
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Unicorn Store
Title: Unicorn Store
Character: Gary
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Lysander
Released: June 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy and reality collide. It’s set in a world where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead.
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Title: Legion
Character: Clark Debussy
Released: February 8, 2017
Type: TV
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
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One More Time
Title: One More Time
Character: Tim
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback.
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The Big Short
Title: The Big Short
Character: Porter Collins
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
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Ithaca
Title: Ithaca
Character: Tom Spangler
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
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Magic in the Moonlight
Title: Magic in the Moonlight
Character: Brice
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Title: The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Character: Tommy Altmann
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: Movie
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
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Title: Fargo
Character: Larue Dollard
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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Redemption Trail
Title: Redemption Trail
Character: David
Released: October 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Two powerful, yet deeply troubled women -- refugees from political and personal trauma -- flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary, Tess, (Hamilton) lives off the grid on a Sonoma vineyard, fiercely detached from all connections. Her hermetic life cracks when she gives reluctant shelter to a desperate young woman, Anna (Rabe) who has attempted suicide in a nearby forest. An unlikely alliance forms between the two, where other close relationships have failed -- David, Anna's husband, (Linklater) and John, Tess' employer (Weber), cannot break through their walls. But the very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves, as not only survivors, but as heroes capable even of a thrilling shoot-out in the name of outlaw justice. Reclaiming freedom, and life, they plunge forward, towards an unknown, transformative horizon.
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Title: The Crazy Ones
Character: Andrew
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: TV
The Crazy Ones is an American situation comedy series created by David E. Kelley that stars Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera project premiered on CBS on September 26, 2013, as part of the 2013–14 American television season as a Thursday night 9 pm entry. Bill D'Elia, Dean Lorey, Jason Winer, John Montgomery and Mark Teitelbaum serve as executive producers for 20th Century Fox Television.
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42
Title: 42
Character: Ralph Branca
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: Movie
In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field wins over fans and his teammates – silencing his critics and forever changing the world by changing the game of baseball.
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Title: The Newsroom
Character: Jerry Dantana
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
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Lola Versus
Title: Lola Versus
Character: Henry
Released: April 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
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Battleship
Title: Battleship
Character: Cal Zapata
Released: April 11, 2012
Type: Movie
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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I'm Coming Over
Title: I'm Coming Over
Character: Buffalo
Released: August 14, 2011
Type: Movie
I'm Coming Over reveals a day in the life of Matt Downing, owner and proprietor of I’m Coming Over, specializing in holistic happiness. When traditional therapy has failed, Matt Downing picks up the pieces with common sense, good old fashioned hard work, and a strict avoidance of the modern world.
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The Future
Title: The Future
Character: Jason
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: Movie
When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: David LaGuardia
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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The Violent Kind
Title: The Violent Kind
Character: Frank
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Horror - The story of a US Marine who has just returned home from the war in Iraq. In an ettempt to reunite with his young wife and Vietnam veteran father, he takes them back to the family cabin in Montana. - Kirk Harris, John Savage, Irina Björklund
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Title: Pushing Daisies
Character: John Joseph Jacobs
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: TV
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
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Title: Ugly Betty
Character: Evan Grant
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: TV
Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
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Title: The New Adventures of Old Christine
Character: Matthew Kimble
Released: March 13, 2006
Type: TV
Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the unfortunate nickname Old Christine.
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Fantastic Four
Title: Fantastic Four
Character: Leonard
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: Movie
During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, these "Fantastic Four" must now thwart the evil plans of Dr. Doom and save the world from certain destruction.
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Everything's Gone Green
Title: Everything's Gone Green
Character: William
Released: January 22, 2005
Type: Movie
A man, who has not left the building he works and lives in for 14 years, meets a receptionist eager to understand more about his mysterious life.
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The Sailor's Girl
Title: The Sailor's Girl
Released: January 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Julia offers an unusual service in an abandoned car on the outskirts of town.
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Title: 5ive Days to Midnight
Character: Carl Axelrod
Released: June 7, 2004
Type: TV
A physicist discovers a briefcase containing postdated documents and evidence which indicate he will die five days in the future.
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Final Draft
Title: Final Draft
Character: Marty
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Marty, an anti-social realist, and Harry, a passionate ideologist, are two young writers who have come to Hollywood to make it as successful screenwriters.
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Live from Baghdad
Title: Live from Baghdad
Character: Richard Roth
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
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Title: American Dreams
Character: Pvt. Stan Silver
Released: September 29, 2002
Type: TV
American Dreams is an American television drama program broadcast on the NBC television network, produced by Once A Frog and Dick Clark Productions in association with Universal Network Television and NBC Studios. The series was created by Jonathan Prince and developed by Josh Goldstein and Prince; the latter was also one of the executive producers with Dick Clark. It debuted on September 29, 2002. The show is set mostly in Philadelphia. It initially aired on Sundays at 8:00 pm Eastern time, but moved to the same time on Wednesdays from March 9, 2005, to the third season finale. The show tells the story of the Pryor family of Philadelphia during the mid-1960s. Season one takes place in 1963–64, season two in 1964–65, and season three in 1965–66. The show was known as Our Generation when it debuted in Australia, however it was changed back to American Dreams when it returned for the second season. The theme song "Generation" was written and performed by Emerson Hart, lead singer of the band Tonic. The song earned Hart an ASCAP award for Best Theme Song of Television in 2003. The show was the 2003 TV Land Awards "Future Classic" winner.
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Title: Gideon's Crossing
Character: Dr. Bruce Cherry
Released: October 10, 2000
Type: TV
Ben Gideon, a doctor of great skill and with a great bedside manner, heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New England. Based on the work of Dr. Jerome Groupman, Gideon fights to inspire the next generation of doctors.
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Groove
Title: Groove
Character: David Turner
Released: June 8, 2000
Type: Movie
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: David Morris
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Barron’s Cove
Title: Barron’s Cove
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
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The Nickel Boys
Title: The Nickel Boys
Character: Spencer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In the 1960s, African-American Elwood Curtis is sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. While there, he meets a boy named Turner, and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators. Decades later, an investigation takes place after the academy's walls are found to have hidden a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.