Linda Emond

Linda Marie Emond (born May 22, 1959) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She has received three Tony Award nominations for her performances in Life (x) 3, Death of a Salesman (2012), and Cabaret (2014).

Early life and education Linda Marie Emond was born on May 22, 1959 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

She was raised in Orange County, California, and attended Loara Elementary School, Ball Junior High, and Loara High School (where she was homecoming queen). Her first performance on stage was in high school as Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

She graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fullerton in 1982. She earned an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Career Emond's first professional stage performance, for which she earned her Equity card, was in On the Verge at The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle during her last semester of graduate school.

She debuted on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway play Nine Armenians in 1996 at the Manhattan Theatre Club for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

Emond performed in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul in three separate productions, the first at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2001, receiving a nomination for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress, She appeared in the same play at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2004.

In 2011, she appeared off-Broadway in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures as "Empty", a part that was written for her.

Emond was cast as "Elaine" in Craig Lucas's The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard Theater in 1998. She played the role of Queen Hermione in The Winter's Tale at the Public Theater production of Shakespeare in the Park in July 2010. Emond performed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in David Hare's The Secret Rapture in 1990 and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in The Cherry Orchard (2004) and A.R. Gurney's Far East (1998).

On Broadway, Emond appeared in productions of the musical 1776 (1997) as Abigail Adams, and in Yasmina Reza's play Life x 3 (2003), for which she was nominated for the 2003 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play and for which she won the Outer Critics Circle Award. She starred as Linda Loman in the 2012 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and as Fraulein Schneider in the 2014 revival of Cabaret and received Tony nominations for both performances.

Emond's film and television roles include Simone Beck in Julie & Julia (2009), Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) a made-for-television Lifetime film, and as Abigail Adams in American Experience: John and Abigail Adams for PBS. In 2009, she played Mary Ann McCray in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation of A Dog Named Christmas. She has had recurring roles in such New York-based television series as The Good Wife, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gossip Girl, Wonderland, Elementary, and The Knick.

She is also a voiceover actor, having narrated over 50 episodes of the Lifetime series Intimate Portrait. As an audiobook reader, Emond is the recipient of four Audiofile Earphones Awards and was named one of their Best Voices of the Year.

Emond co-starred in Indignation (2016), an adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel of the same name, playing Esther Messner, the mother of Logan Lerman's lead character.

She was a cast member of the AMC comedy-drama Lodge 49, playing Connie Clark.

In 2022, Emond guest starred as Clara Barton on HBO's The Gilded Age.

Filmography

Films

Television Year Title Role Notes 1992 L.A. Law Dr. Emily Connor Episode: "Great Balls Afire" 1992 Mann & Machine Monica Barker Episode: "Truth or Consequences" 1993 Reasonable Doubts Pamela Reichel Episode: "Legacy" 1993I Can Make You Love Me Penny Television film 1996 Law & Order Laura Cochran Episode: "Savior" 1997 Feds June Leeds Episode: "The War Against Crime" (pilot) 1997 New York Undercover Nancy Carol Episode: "The Unthinkable" 2000 Wonderland A.D.A. Strictler 4 episodes 2000 The Sopranos Dahlia Episode: "Big Girls Don't Cry" 2000 Law & Order Carolyn Tyler Episode: "Panic" 2000 Third Watch Francine Bradley Episode: "Duty" 2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Dr. Christine Fellowes Episode: "Anti-Thesis" 2004–2022 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Emily Sopher 8 episodes 2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury Dr. Emily Downey Episode: "Baby Boom" 2005 Law & Order Rosalie Helton Episode: "Tombstone" 2006 American Experience: John and Abigail Adams Abigail Adams Television film 2008 30 RockCommercial voiceEpisode: "Gavin Volure"; uncredited 2008–2009 Gossip Girl Headmistress Queller 3 episodes 2009Georgia O'Keeffe Beck Strand Television film 2009 A Dog Named Christmas Mary Ann McCray Television film 2010–2012 The Good Wife Judge Leora Kuhn 3 episodes 2011 Unforgettable Debi Moser Episode: "Check Out Time" 2013 Elementary Dr. Candace Reed 3 episodes 2015 The Knick Anne Chickering 3 episodes 2015–2019 Madam SecretaryCarol Jackson4 episodes 2016 BrainDead Kara Wright Episode: "Taking on Water: How Leaks in D.C. Are Discovered and Patched" 2016 The Blacklist Dr. Adrian Shaw 2 episodes 2018–2019 Lodge 49 Connie Clark 20 episodes 2020 The Good Fight Judge Leora Kuhn Episode: "The Gang Goes to War" 2021 The Bite Lisa Quinto 4 episodes 2021 Succession Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven 3 episodes 2022 The Gilded Age Clara Barton 3 episodes 2022 The Patient Candace Fortner 2023 Only Murders in the Building Donna DeMeo 10 episodes2024Death and Other DetailsHilde Eriksen2026The Miniature WifeDiane McMichael Jones

Stage + Year Title Role Notes 1988 Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle Court Theatre, Chicago 1990 The Secret Rapture Isobel Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago 1996 Nine Armenians Mom Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 1997 1776 Abigail Adams Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 1997 Baby Anger Woman Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway 1998 Far East Julia Williamstown Theatre Festival 1998 The Dying Gaul Elaine Vineyard Theatre, Off-Broadway 1999 An Experiment with an Air Pump Susannah Fenwick/ Ellen Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 2001 Homebody/Kabul Homebody New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway 2002 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Betty Dullfeet Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University 2003 Life x 3 Inez Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway 2004 The Cherry Orchard Liubov Ranyevskaya Williamstown Theatre Festival 2004 Homebody/Kabul Homebody Brooklyn Academy of Music, Off-Broadway 2007 Spanish Play Aurelia Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway 2010 The Winter's Tale Queen Hermione Shakespeare in the Park, Off-Broadway 2011 The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures Empty The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2012 Death of a Salesman Linda Loman Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 2014 Cabaret Fraulein Schneider Studio 54, Broadway 2019 A Bright Room Called Day Annabella The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2026 Becky Shaw Susan Helen Hayes Theater, Broadway

Awards and nominations