Hamish Linklater just wrapped shooting the lead role of creator/director Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass. Linklater will next be seen in a starring role in the Amazon Original series, Tell Me Your Secrets, opposite Lily Rabe, which will be released in February 2021.
He was most recently seen in Brie Larson’s directorial debut, Unicorn Store, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, which was released on Netflix. Linklater’s other recent film credits include starring opposite Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling in the Academy Award-nominated The Big Short, starring opposite Tom Hanks in Ithaca, and co-starring opposite Emma Stone in Woody Allen’s film, Magic In The Moonlight, Battleship for Peter Berg, 42 with Chadwick Boseman, Lola Versus opposite Greta Gerwig, Angriest Man In Brooklyn opposite Robin Williams, and Miranda July’s The Future.
On television, for three seasons, Linklater co-
Hamish Linklater just wrapped shooting the lead role of creator/director Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass. Linklater will next be seen in a starring role in the Amazon Original series, Tell Me Your Secrets, opposite Lily Rabe, which will be released in February 2021.
He was most recently seen in Brie Larson’s directorial debut, Unicorn Store, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, which was released on Netflix. Linklater’s other recent film credits include starring opposite Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling in the Academy Award-nominated The Big Short, starring opposite Tom Hanks in Ithaca, and co-starring opposite Emma Stone in Woody Allen’s film, Magic In The Moonlight, Battleship for Peter Berg, 42 with Chadwick Boseman, Lola Versus opposite Greta Gerwig, Angriest Man In Brooklyn opposite Robin Williams, and Miranda July’s The Future.
On television, for three seasons, Linklater co-starred in the critically acclaimed FX series Legion from creator Noah Hawley. He has starred on network and cable shows, from the CBS comedy The Crazy Ones, where he starred alongside Robin Williams, to a season-long arc on HBO’s The Newsroom for Aaron Sorkin, as well as FX on Fargo. Other television credits include The New Adventures of Old Christine opposite Julia Louis Dreyfus, The Big C with Laura Linney, amongst many others.
His theater credits include starring in Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors as well as Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino, Twelfth Night opposite Anne Hathaway and Seminar on Broadway opposite Alan Rickman, to name a few.
In addition to acting, Linklater is a celebrated writer, having produced his original off-Broadway plays, The Whirligig, starring Zosia Mamet, and The Vandal, as well as co-writing and producing his ABC one-hour pilot, Prince of Motor City.
