How Rich is Laura Linney?

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Stage and screen actress Laura Linney is set to appear in the fourth season of Netflix’s Ozark on Jan. 21, in which she portrays the character of Wendy Byrde. Like co-star Jason Bateman, Linney earns roughly $300,000 per episode, according to Express, making her one of the most well-paid women on television. CelebrityNetWorth lists Linney’s total net worth at an estimated $10 million this year.

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After three seasons on Ozark, Linney has been nominated for Golden Globes and Primetime Emmys, although she hasn’t taken home an award yet. Linney is one of the highest paid television actors, as most network television stars fail to earn six figures per episode. Notably, the casts of Friends and The Big Bang Theory have earned six figures per episode as their shows drew to a close. Because of global distribution, streaming services like Netflix have the revenue to pay actors more, according to Express.

Linney’s career began in the student theater group at Brown University and continued when she attended the iconic Juilliard School. She has been attached to many Broadway and off-Broadway shows. Her first lead role came in the 1994 play Hedda Gabler, for which she won an award, according to CelebrityNetWorth. In 2002, Linney joined Liam Neeson in a performance of The Crucible at the Virginia Theater and was nominated for a Tony Award. Her second Tony Award nomination came for her part in Sight Unseen on Broadway in 2004.

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Linney also has an illustrious film career. Some of her standout movie appearances include The Truman Show, Congo, and You Can Count on Me, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Linney’s television career began with 1993’s Tales of the City. Her role in Wild Iris earned Linney an Emmy Award, as did her recurring role in Frasier. She also won an Emmy for Angels in America and has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Ozark. Will an Emmy win finally come for Linney after the show’s fourth and final season?

Ozark review – Jason Bateman and Laura Linney could teach Lady Macbeth a thing or two

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Poor Janet McTeer. Not since the Pacific breeze blew Steve Buscemi’s ashes into the Dude’s beard in The Big Lebowski have a character’s remains been so disrespectfully treated. At the start of the fourth series of Ozark (Netflix), Wendy and Marty Byrde, like a pair of Lady Macbeths, are washing the remains of cartel lawyer Helen Pierce (McTeer) out of their clothes in the bathroom of Mexican drug lord Omar Navarro’s palatial compound.

At the end of series three, Navarro’s hitman offed Helen, because she was working an angle contrary to the cartel’s interest (trying to take over the Byrdes’ money-laundering casinos). “They blow her brains out two feet from us,” Wendy tells her children later. “We had to wash pieces out of our hair.”

The long-awaited, Covid-delayed final season – with one tranche of eight episodes being dropped now and the final six to come later this year – rejoins Wendy and Marty on the journey they started three series ago. They left Chicago for a resort in the Ozarks, laundering money through a bar and strip club to fund the nonprofit Byrde Family Foundation into which they could funnel heroin money to do good things, such as bankroll rehab centres for addicts.

Instead of going straight, though, they sunk ever deeper into evil. By the end of series three, they were laundering drug money for the Navarro cartel through multiple casinos, partnering with the Kansas City mob to deal heroin, and luring the US army to raid and eliminate a rival cartel. Wendy kills her own brother to prove her loyalty to Navarro, helps his thuggish brother Javi dispose of the local sheriff who asks too many questions, and now plans to offer up her traitorous son Jonah to the FBI. Say what you like about Lady Macbeth: at least she didn’t have siblings to swell the body count nor sons to betray to the feds.

Laura Linney’s performance as Wendy is all the more chilling because her face says apple pie, but everything she does curdles into evil. Meanwhile, Jason Bateman’s Marty is a study in how far a pragmatic accountant can go into the depths of wickedness without the strain showing on his face.

If one of the great pleasures of Ozark is that strong women motor the storyline – not just Wendy, but hillbilly heroin farmer Darlene Snell and trailer-trash business whizz Ruth Langmore, not to mention daughter Charlotte Byrde, who dreams of whisking herself and brother Jonah to the Pacific north-west beyond their parents’ and the mob’s clutches – none of them is a role model. Even Ruth, who is Ozark’s token moral conscience, her every compunction subtly registered in Julia Garner’s impressive performance, is like everyone else: pursuing Ozark’s version of the degraded American dream – profiting from evil without consequence, then blowing town with a bank account swollen by drug money.

Once the Byrdes have washed McTeer out of their hair, they go to Navarro’s gaudy party (the crab alone cost $10,000), where Omar tells them he too dreams of going straight, without having to do jail time or be assassinated by his upstart nephew Javi. “I’m sorry,” says Wendy. “That’s impossible.” “Isn’t this exactly what you were doing with your foundation?” Omar asks reasonably. “You can transform yourselves into a pillar of society, but you won’t do the same for me.” “I’m sorry. It’s not doable.” The temperature drops several degrees. “OK, why are you still alive?” The scene is set for the final season: the Byrdes must help one of the world’s most wanted drug kingpins to walk free or they will go the way of McTeer.

The series premiere, The Beginning of the End, actually opens with one of those tantalising foreshadowing scenes that Ozark does so well. The Byrde family are driving to the soundtrack of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come – as if their troubles are behind them. It recalls the last scene of The Sopranos, in which the mob family are dining at Artie Bucco’s restaurant. We await some terrible denouement – machine gun splattering, ziti stuffed with explosives – but it never arrives. There was, rather, the realised possibility that against the odds, crime, indeed, can pay.

Ozark ironically inverts that Sopranos ending. A juggernaut barrels down the wrong lane of the Missouri black top towards the Byrdes, forcing Marty to swerve and crash. Was it an accident? Was Navarro’s hitman at the wheel of the oncoming truck? Do the Byrdes survive to do what the Macbeths failed to – escape their bloody pasts? Nothing seems more unlikely, but I’ve been wrong before.

‘Ozark’, ‘Trigger Point’, ‘Dancing On Ice’: The best TV this weekend, 21-23 January

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The weekend’s best TV. (ITV/Netflix/ITV)

The weekend’s TV includes some unmissable drama highlights - kicking off on Friday with Netflix launching series four of Jason Bateman and Laura Linney’s Ozark, and finishing the weekend on Sunday with ITV’s new police thriller Trigger Point.

Star of Trigger Point Vicky McClure will also feature in Friday’s episode of The Graham Norton Show on BBC One, who’ll be welcoming Kenneth Branagh, too.

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Elsewhere, ITV is packed with entertainment this weekend, including The Masked Singer on Saturday and Dancing On Ice on Sunday which features the first elimination of the series.

The best things to watch on TV this weekend, 21-23 January

Friday

Ozark - Netflix

‘Ozark’ returns for a final season. (Steve Dietl/Netflix)

It’s been a long wait for the new series of Ozark, but Netflix finally launches series four today where we catch up with incredibly dysfunctional family the Byrdes.

Marty (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) who have been inadvertently drawn into the world of drugs cartels but have found themselves thriving as unlikely drug lords, particularly Wendy, were left in a bloody cliffhanger at the end of series three.

Read more: Netflix cranks up tension for final season of Ozark

In the new series debut, the Mexican cartel offers them a grisly ultimatum as they fall ever deeper into their dangerous life of crime.

The Graham Norton Show - BBC One - 10.35pm

Graham Norton welcomes celebrity guests. (So Television/Christopher Baines)

Tonight, chat show host Graham Norton is joined by Sir Kenneth Branagh who’ll be talking about his awards-tipped film Belfast.

He’ll also welcome Vicky McClure who’s promoting her new TV thriller Trigger Point, Rachel Zegler who stars as Maria in the new West Side Story, and Scottish singer Emeli Sande will perform.

Saturday

The Masked Singer - ITV - 7pm

Doughnuts is back. (ITV)

For the first time this series, all of the remaining masked singers perform in the same show as the audience and judges choose who will be unmasked next.

Series three has revealed Pat Cash, Will Young, Gloria Hunniford and Heather Small so far - who will be behind the mask tonight?

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Sunday

Trigger Point - ITV - 9pm

Vicky McClure stars in the new thriller. (ITV)

Much-anticipated new ITV thriller Trigger Point stars Vicky McClure as a London bomb disposal expert with Jed Mercurio executive producing the series - drawing obvious Line Of Duty comparisons.

A tense first episode introduces McClure’s character Lana and her work partner Nut (Adrian Lester) who are called out to deal with a bomb threat at a tower block.

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But with red herrings galore and an increasing sense of doom, all while the tower block residents get more restless at being held back by police, the stage is set for a typically Mercurio explosive debut.

Dancing On Ice - ITV - 6.30pm

Who will avoid injury for long enough to skate? (ITV)

It’s just week two of the competition, but there are already uncomfortable echoes of last year’s disaster series as Rachel Stevens is forced to miss her first skate after breaking her wrist, and Bez is in isolation with COVID.

Still, the show must go on and Dancing On Ice has certainly dealt with more difficult weeks in the past.

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Five questions that need answers in the final ‘Ozark’ season

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There’s something that’s just right about the final season of Ozark being presented by Netflix in two parts, given that Breaking Bad did the same thing. Breaking Bad has always been Ozark’s most obvious influence, along with Justified and perhaps the second season of Fargo. The seven episodes that make up the first half of the fourth and last season (yes, that is convoluted math) will arrive on the morning of January 21, so let’s take a look at some of the things that still need resolution. (Other than: Why so many blue filters, and why is it so dark all the time?)

Please note: Even posing these questions presupposes that you have seen the first three seasons, so if you are still making your way through the series, please stop reading!

What about the criminal enterprise?

At the end of Season 3, drug kingpin Omar Navarro’s (Felix Solis) hitman … well, there’s no nice way to say this, but he splattered bits of cartel attorney Helen (Janet McTeer) all over Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) Byrde. Omar went on embrace them, brain matter in their hair and everything, and say, “Today is our beginning.” Marty’s relationship with Navarro has included everything from tense cooperation to being thrown in a dungeon. But with Helen out of the picture, what does Omar intend for the Byrdes?

Navarro has always seemed to have a certain fondness for Wendy; he has admitted to admiring her determination to get everything she wants. Where does he see Marty and Wendy in the organization, and does he really envision both of them remaining there at all? (The fact that nobody has killed Marty yet is, by the way, probably the show’s most implausible aspect.)

/ Netflix / Netflix Julia Garner and Laura Linney, as Ruth and Wendy, are the MVPs of Ozark, let’s face it.

What is Ruth going to do with Darlene?

Finding out that Wendy was responsible for Ben’s death alienated Ruth (Julia Garner) from the Byrdes, particularly when combined with the fact that Wendy also arranged for the death of Ruth’s father, which Ruth continues to have deeply conflicted feelings about. For her part, Wendy blames Ruth for failing to understand the dangers of breaking Ben out of the hospital.

At the same time that this estrangement was intensifying, Darlene took it upon herself to pick up a gun and colorfully avenge Ruth’s assault at the hands of Frank Jr., giving Ruth something she’s rarely had in her life: someone who acts to, in a sense, protect her. So it’s perhaps not surprising that Ruth has seemingly been persuaded to join up with Darlene and Wyatt (Charlie Tahan) in their revived heroin operation.

Steve Dietl / Netflix / Netflix Skylar Gaertner as Jonah, who has had to grow up just a bit too fast.

What does the future hold for Jonah and Charlotte?

One of the creative decisions that separate Ozark from some other family crime dramas like The Americans is that the parents decided to tell the kids what was going on, pretty much right away. So Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) and Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) have long known that their parents were deeply involved in crimes up to and including killing people. Charlotte seems to have almost adjusted to it, slipping into a certain acceptance of the lives she and her parents live.

Jonah, on the other hand, is understandably devastated by Helen’s revelation (at gunpoint) that it was Wendy who allowed the cartel to kill Ben (her own brother). Jonah has also always had an independent streak and the ability to work with or without help. Other shows have been willing to acknowledge that family and crime may not be able to coexist forever as kids grow up and assert their own desires. Charlotte does not seem to be pulling away from her parents at this point — but what about her brother?

/ Netflix / Netflix Charlie Tahan as Wyatt, who has a lot to think about.

What about everybody else?

There is a whole secondary and tertiary set of characters, including Wyatt and Three, Maya, Sheriff Nix, the Franks Sr. and Jr., and Helen’s daughter Erin. And they are still out there just … involved. Not on current clear paths, but involved. Something is going to become of all of them. Heck, even Rachel is presumably still out there somewhere following her trip to rehab on Marty’s dime, and while there’s no reason to believe we’ll see her again, fans certainly have agitated for it.

It remains to be seen how all of these people will fit into the final act, and — let’s not sugarcoat it — how many of them will survive a show that knocks people off as regularly as this one does. I mean, let’s see: Ash, Jacob, Del, Petty, Helen, Cade, Bobby, Mason, Grace, Ben, Sue, Russ, Boyd, Silverberg, and the entire Season 1 Episode 1 massacre … that’s something like one killing every other episode. It’s hard to believe there are not more to come.

/ Netflix / Netflix Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Byrde.

What is the Byrde marriage, in the end?

The very first conflict introduced in Ozark’s complicated history — ever — was Marty’s discovery that Wendy was cheating on him. Since then, the marriage has seemed at times to be merely an arrangement (they’ve as much as said so) and has seemed at other times to contain genuine affection. But how much either of these people would risk for each other, if the choice to do so were presented straightforwardly, is not clear. Would Marty let Wendy die? Would Wendy let Marty die? She did, after all, essentially have her own brother killed, and she loved him.

It often feels like Ozark must all be building to some massive test of their true feelings for each other — whether they will join together or turn on each other if the purely pragmatic “trust” between them shatters. Perhaps with Ruth as the fulcrum: Would Marty let Wendy have Ruth killed, given that he feels largely responsible for dragging Ruth into all this? Would Wendy let Marty have Ruth killed, given the guilt she already feels and her apparent belief that Marty is the cause of everybody’s problems in the first place?

These seven episodes will presumably start to answer all these questions. Seven more — which don’t have a release date yet — will reveal what the writers of the show have in mind, and how cunning they are relative to the world of criminals they’ve created.

Julia Garner’s Net Worth Reveals How Much She Makes Compared to Her ‘Ozark’ Co-Stars

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If you’ve watched her in shows like Ozark and Inventing Anna, you may be wondering about Julia Garner’s net worth and how much she makes compared to her characters.

Garner, who was born in The Bronx, New York, started acting when she was 15 years old as a way to overcome her shyness. “I had a hard time talking,” she told The Cut in 2017. “That’s why I liked acting. Because I could say other people’s words.” When she was 17, she made her movie debut as Sarah in 2011’s Martha May Marlene. She went on to star in movies like Not Fade Away, Electrick Children (which was her first lead role in a film), The Last Exorcism Part II, We Are What We Are, Sin City: A Dame to Kill, Grandma and HBO’s Girls before her scene-stealing role in Netflix’s Ozark, which won her two Emmy awards.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2020, Garner revealed that a casting director was skeptical of her success as an actor when she was a teenager because of how she looked. “[The casting director] is like, ‘You should do independent films,’” Garner said. “I was too natural maybe in terms of acting. I was just too weird-looking. When you think about teen actors, you think of them having this gorgeous, luscious hair and being so pretty that you’re like, ‘You would never be the shy girl in high school.’ I was definitely not [the luscious hair girl]. My style, it’s still the same. It’s been the same since I was 6 years old, which is a black turtleneck.”

So what is Julia Garner’s net worth? Read on for what we know about Julia Garner’s net worth and how much she could make from shows like Ozark and Inventing Anna.

What does Julia Garner make from Ozark?

What does Julia Garner make from Ozark? Garner starred as Ruth Langmore, a young woman who is part of a local criminal family, in Netflix’s Ozark for four seasons from 2017 to 2022. She won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role in 2019 and 2020. “I love playing Ruth so much, and every single day I just feel so lucky to be doing this,” Garner said during her Emmys speech in 2019. “This is so special. I’ll remember this forever.”

How much does Julia Garner make from Ozark? Garner’s Ozark salary hasn’t been confirmed, but it’s assumed that she makes around the same amount as her co-stars, Jason Bateman, who plays Marty Byrde, and Laura Linney, who plays Wendy Byrde. According to Variety, both Bateman and Linney made $300,000 per episode on Ozark as of 2017. If their salary remained the same, the rate would’ve paid them $3 million for 10 episodes in season one, $3 million for 10 episodes in season two, $3 million for 10 episodes in season 3 and $4.2 million for 10 episodes in season four, the final season. In total, Bateman and Linney would’ve made at least $13.2 million for all four seasons of Ozark though it’s assumed they made even more after the show’s success and Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series in 2019 and 2020. Bateman has also been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series from 2018 to 2020, while Linney has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and 2020. Given that Garner is a supporting actor for Bateman and Linney’s lead characters in Ozark, it’s assumed that she makes close to what her co-stars earn but not the exact same amount. Considering that she’s the only cast member to win an Emmy—let alone two—for her role in Ozark, we estimate that Garner’s salary is at least six figures per episode of Ozark, which would’ve paid her millions of dollars by the time the series ended in 2022.

Garner told The Los Angeles Times in 2020 that she was cast as Ruth in Ozark after she became “obsessed” with the role. “I had an obsession with Ruth the moment I saw the mock sides for the audition and I don’t get obsession with characters and parts. I’m very good,” she said. “If I have to audition for something, I’m like, ‘One bus comes, one bus goes kind of thing.’ That’s the business we’re in. But I remember I kept thinking, ‘I have to get this part. I will have a hard time watching this show, seeing someone else doing this part.’ And I never think like that. “So, I remember thinking I had to get this part. I just did. There was something, I just understood her for some reason. Even though she’s so different from me.”

She continued, “I went to the audition. I prepared the lines with the accent. So, I memorised my lines with the accent. I did a movie the year before with an accent. So I had the Missouri accent down. There were 15 girls going for the role in the casting office which was the size of a ‘biggish closet’ with ‘paper-thin walls.’”

She revealed that she was the only actress to audition with a Missouri accent. “Every single girl that went in the room was saying the lines that I was going to say, none of them had accents and I was like, ‘Oh my god. I’m going to look like one of those actors who are like I’m an actor, I’m in theatre,’” she said. “Those over-the-top actors that overact. I’m going to look like that actor.” When she tried to audition without an accent, Garner forgot her lines. She said, “I only remembered it with an accent.” Garner didn’t hear back about her audition for a few days and assumed she had lost the role. “Well, I’m going to forget about this. I’m not going to hear from this project. It’s just not happening,” she said. Then, a week after her audition, she received the call that she had booked the part of Ruth. “It worked out for me. I thought there was no chance,” she said.

In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2021, Garner opened up about how she relates to Ruth. “I feel like, when a child goes through something, the first heartbreak, they lose their innocence, and they’re stuck at that age,” she said. “To me, trauma is trauma. With Ruth, her main thing is she doesn’t have women. She only knows how to be with men. But she’s not with men who respect women, or they’re not good men.” She continued, “Ruth doesn’t know what a normal and healthy relationship is. She doesn’t know what unconditional love is.”

What did Julia Garner make from Inventing Anna?

What did Julia Garner make from Inventing Anna? Garner played Anna Delvey (also known as Anna Sorokin) in Netflix’s Inventing Anna, which premieres on February 4, 2022. The show, which was created by Shonda Rhimes, is based on New York Magazine writer Jessica Pressler’s 2018 article, “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People,” which investigated how a Russian woman named Anna Sorokin pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name Anna Delvey to defraud banks, hotels and wealthy friends between 2013 to 2017. Sorokin was convicted of multiple counts of attempted grand larceny, larceny in the 2nd degree and theft of services in 2019.

While Garner’s salary for Inventing Anna hasn’t been confirmed, Insider reported in 2021 that Sorokin was paid $320,000 by Netflix for the rights to adapt her life into Inventing Anna. According to court records obtained by Insider, Sorokin used $199,000 of the money to pay restitution to the banks she defrauded and used another $24,000 to settle state fines. She also used $75,000 in attorney fees and will owe more once her case is concluded. Sorokin was released from prison in February 2021 and was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whee she awaits deportation to Germany. After what she paid in restitution, fines and attorney fees, Sorokin will have little left from the $320,000 Netflix paid her.

Rhimes told Town & Country in 2022 about why she cast Garner as Sorokin. “Julia approaches her roles from an intellectual place that allows for the precision and dexterity needed to delve into the mind and spirit of a character,” she said.“Anna Delvey is a person who goes through many transformations to reach her goals. Given Julia’s range, we knew this was something she could deliver on.” She also revealed to The Hollywood Reporter in 2020 that she met Sorokin at the Albion Correctional Facility in New York, where Sorokin asked Garner to re-create her accent. “She might be the hardest character I’ve ever played,” Garner said. “It got super meta because she’s like, ‘So how are you playing me?’” She continued, “I said, ‘Well, you’re very complex. Your accent’s really hard.’ She’s like, ‘Oh my God, how do you sound like me? You have to do it.’ She just was freaking out,” she said.

What is Julia Garner’s net worth

What is Julia Garner’s net worth? Julia Garner’s net worth is $3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Garner’s net worth is $7 million less than her Ozark co-star Laura Linney (who is worth $10 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth) and $27 million less than Jason Bateman (who is worth $30 million.) Along with what she made from Ozark and Inventing Anna, Julia Garner’s net worth also includes her pay for shows like The Americans, Maniac, Dirty John, and movies such as Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, We Are What We Are, Grandma and The Assistant.

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar Singapore in 2022, Garner revealed that her “I made it” moment was when she was watching a episode of Jeopardy in a yellow cab and saw a question about herself. “The words ‘Who is Jason Bateman and Julia Garner?’ were blaring from a rerun of Jeopardy on Taxi TV,” she said. “That was when I thought to myself, ‘Oh, I made it! My name’s on Jeopardy. That’s cool.’” She also told Town & Country in 2022 about why she relates to Sorokin. “She’s a big dreamer, and I would consider myself a dreamer,” Garner said. “In the business that we’re in, you have to be.” As for what else she wants to accomplish in her career, Garner told the magazine: “I want to continue playing strong, complex women. I love switching people’s minds when they’re going back and forth about a character.”

Ozark is available to stream on Netflix.