Linda Edna Cardellini was born on the 25 June 1975, in Redwood City, California USA, of Italian and Irish descent. She is an actress particularly known for creating the roles of Lindsay Weir in the television series “Freaks and Geeks” (1999 – 2000), Samantha Taggart in “ER” (1994 – 2009), Sylvia Rosen in “Mad Men” (2007 – 2015) and Meg Rayburn in “Bloodline” (2015 – present). Linda Cardellini is the winner of TV Land Award. She has been active in the entertainment industry since 1994.
How much is the net worth of Linda Cardellini? Reportedly, authoritative sources estimate that the outright size of her wealth is as much as $3 million, as of the data presented in mid-2016.
Linda Cardellini Net Worth $3 Million
To begin with, she was educated at the Saint Francis High School from which she matriculated in 1993. After taking acting classes, Linda Cardellini pursued the career of an actress which would eventually add huge sums to the overall size of her net worth. It is worth mentioning the fact that she graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Theatre, in 2001.
At the beginning of her career Linda moved to Los Angeles. Linda participated in the game show “The New Price Is Right” in 1994, and then two years later she appeared in the series “Bone Chillers”, in which she played Sarah. Then she made several appearances in other series including “Third Rock From the Sun” (1997), “Pacific Palisades” (1997), “Clueless” (1997), “Kenan & Kel” (1998) and “Boy Meets World” (1998 – 1999). In 1997 she appeared on the big screen, landing a role in the comedy “Good Burger” followed by a small role in “Dead Man on the Campus” (1998) in which she formed a couple with Jason Segel. This was a good basis to her net worth.
Cardellini spent the summer of 1999 in Europe as part of a touring production in “Lancelot”, a Dutch tragedy of the fourteenth century. Cardellini had her first noticeable success when she created one of the roles in “Freaks and Geeks”, during the season 1999 – 2000 – as Lindsay Weir, a female student in the midst of an identity crisis, the actress won the positive response that subsequently catapulted her to fame. In 2002, Cardellini starred in the adaptation of “Scooby-Doo”, which gave life to the character of Velma Dinkley. She repeated the role of Velma in “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” (2004). In 2003, she joined the cast of the medical drama “ER”, as the nurse Samantha Taggart, a role she played for six seasons until the end of the show. Moreover, she worked in such films as “Legally Blonde” (2001), “Brokeback Mountain” (2005) and “Grandma’s Boy” (2006). In 2007, she created the character Clara Forsythe in the miniseries “Comanche Moon”. Aside from acting, she voiced Ursula in the video game “Gladius” in 2003, and Cordelia in “Lollipop Chainsaw” in 2012.
In July 2013, she was nominated for the Emmy Award as the Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work as Sylvia Rosen in “Mad Men”. In 2015, she participated in the movie “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in which she played Laura Barton, the wife of Clint Barton (Hawkeye). The same year she starred in the comedy film “Daddy’s Home” directed by Sean Anders which grossed $240.4 million at the box office. Soon, she will be seen in the upcoming biographical film “The Founder” directed by John Lee Hancock, which will be released in 2016.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, she was in relationships with the actor Jason Segel and with director Nicholaus Goossen. Since 2011, she has been in a relationship with Steven Rodriguez with whom she has a daughter; they have apparently been engaged since 2013.
