Melanie Lynskey

...ate everything I could see." Based on a true story, the comedy - which costars Two and A Half Men's Melanie Lynskey and Scott Bakula - is Damon's latest collaboration with Oceans director Steven Soderbergh. In Venice with wife Luciana,...

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...a cast of hundreds. The supporting players all become deft straight men to Whitacre, led by Scott Bakula as the FBI man who is the lead agent on the case and Melanie Lynskey as Whitacre's virtuous, supportive wife. Marvin Hamlisch's...

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...tone of The Informer! would have been very different. Sterling support comes from Melanie Lynskey, as Whitacre's ever-loyal wife, and Scott Bakula as his long-suffering FBI contact. Ultimately, though, The Informant! is frustrating...

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...Kurt Eichenwald. Melanie Lynskey does well with the challenge of playing Whitacre's oblivious wife, who never questions his wild assertions and who, we are told, was waiting for him after he served nine years in prison. "The Informant!" is...

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...is set for a profile surge thanks to two fall films. In today's "The Informant!" she plays Matt Damon's understanding wife and stars opposite George Clooney in November's "Up in the Air. " It's the kind of exposure that once would have had...

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...what you're going to get" with Lynskey, says director Steven Soderbergh. The actress has pivotal roles in 'The Informant!,' 'Up in the Air' and 'Leaves of Grass.' "People don't even connect them all really, like, 'Oh, that's you? And...

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...In The Air, alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney, has admitted she struggles with shyness. "I'm awkward and shy when I'm myself," Lynskey said. "That's why I love playing a part; I don't feel myself there anymore. "That's why I love...

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...drab neckties drone about drab subjects. (The baby-voiced Melanie Lynskey is so good in her scenes as the hero's wife - the lone person in the movie with a conscience - that we want much more of her.) Soderbergh thinks it's a giggle that such...

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...going to get caught!) absolutely real. The rest of the cast is fine (particularly Melanie Lynskey as Whitacre's long-suffering wife, and Scott Bakula as a straighter-than-straight-arrow FBI man). And while Hamlisch's score overwhelms the...

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