Linda Cardellini is an American actress who became very well known for the movies that she chose t do. She even starred in the Scooby Doo movie and rose to fame.

Personal Life

Linda Cardellini was born in 25th June, 1975 in Redwood City, California, USA. She was the youngest of four siblings and her father was a businessman. She is of American nationality and Irish, German, English and Scottish (mixed) descent and was raised as a Catholic. She studied in Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California. Then she attended the Loyola Marymount University’s College of Communication and Fine Arts and graduated with a degree in theatre arts in 2000.

Linda has still not been bound by marriage however; she dated her co-star Jason Segel for five years following the show’s cancellation. She broke up with him and moved on to have a relationship with Steven Rodriguez and in 2011 they announced her pregnancy. Linda gave birth to their daughter Lilah Rose Rodriguez in February 2012 and then she got engaged to Steven in June 2013.

Career

Linda Cardellini first appeared on stage when she was in school and at the age of 10 and she performed a singing role for a Christmas play and also took part in school theatres afterwards. She got her first break in 1996 when she started doing the live action children’s series called Bone Chillers.

This was followed by lots of guest appearances in shows like Step By Step, Clueless, Boy Meets World and Third Rock from the Sun. She was the most successful when she starred in the NBC series Freaks and Geeks and it was her performance here that made her earn an Emmy award in the category of ‘Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series’.

She also portrayed the role of Velma in Warner Bros. Scooby Doo series and her role there was so amazing that people got hooked to it. She acted in other good movies like Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon, Grandma’s Boy produced by Adam Sandler, The Unsaid with Andy Garcia and also in the Good Burger with Brian Robbins. She has been lending her voice over to a lot of shows some of which are The Thrilling Adventure Hour.

She was the voice of Ursula in the role playing game of Gladius, played the voice of Bliss Goode for the series known as The Goode Family. She received an Emmy nomination for her performance in the Mad Men in 2015 but she could not bag the prize. Her net worth is around $3 million and she is a very popular actress with a promising career ahead of her.