NANCY LINEHAN CHARLES has been a professional actress and writer for three decades. She has performed on stage from off-Broadway and the Kennedy Center to regional theatres including the Meadowbrook Theatre, Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, Pacific Resident Theatre and the Colony theatre in L.A., in such roles as Vivian Bearing in the Pulitzer-winning play WIT, Amanda Wingfield in GLASS MENAGERIE, the title role in MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION, Albertine in TOYS IN THE ATTIC, Kate in ALL MY SONS, Linda Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, to name a few.
She has twice won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (THE
VISIT, TOYS IN THE ATTIC) and was the recipient of The Ovation Award
(TOYS IN THE ATTIC).

In film, she can be seen as Ned Beatty’s wife in Mike Nichols’ film
CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Phillip
Seymour Hoffman; as Max Von Sydow’s wife in Spielberg’s MINORITY
REPORT, starring Tom Cruise.  She has been seen on television,
guest-starring on such shows as THE WEST WING, 24, CLOSE TO HOME,
JOEY, DREW CAREY, SEINFELD; with recurring roles on HUFF and SIX FEET
UNDER, to name a few.

She has five adaptations of Shakespeare (for middle schoolers)
published through Dramatic Publishing, and her scripts are being
performed in schools all over this country and in Canada.  Ms. Charles
is also a Marathon runner and the mother of two fine young men:  Will
Rothhaar, a working actor; and Charlie Linehan, a Manhattan Assistant
District Attorney.