Linda Cardellini

Date of Birth	25 June 1975 , Redwood City, California, USA
Birth Name	Linda Edna Cardellini
Height	5' 3" (1.6 m)

Biography

Linda grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, California, the youngest of 4 children. She became interested in acting at age 10, when she performed a singing role in a school Christmas play. She continued to do school productions and community theater.

She attended Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California. After graduating, she had to decide whether to go to New York to pursue theater or Los Angeles to pursue film and television. She chose LA. She landed her first role in Bone Chillers (1996). Her breakthrough role came when she was cast in Freaks and Geeks (1999).

Linda attended Loyola Marymount University's College of Communication and Fine Arts, graduating in 2001 with a degree in theater.