Acting

Linda Sorensen

Born

1940-01-19 (86)

Place of birth

Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Psych poster
7.9

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

Psych

2006

Newhart poster
7.2

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

Newhart

1982

Murphy Brown poster
6.5

Murphy Brown is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.

Murphy Brown

1988

The Dead Zone poster
7.3

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

The Dead Zone

2002

Millennium poster
7.7

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

Millennium

1996

Kid vs. Kat poster
7.9

Ten-year-old Coop Burtonburger's life takes a turn for the worse when his little sister, Millie, brings home a mysterious stray cat who, in reality, is an evil cybernetic alien in disguise. To make matters worse, neither his family nor anyone else believes him, except for his best friend, Dennis. Now, Coop risks his life every day as he attempts to foil the cat's diabolical schemes and prove to the world that the family pet is an evil mastermind.

Kid vs. Kat

2008

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

1990s · 10 titles

Relative Fear poster
5.2

Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?

Relative Fear

1994

I'll Be Home For Christmas poster
6.8

Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor; he's a widowed doctor and single dad who's come back to visit his father for the holidays and is pressured to stay because there's need for a local doc.

I'll Be Home For Christmas

1997

Love in Another Town poster
5.2

A fortyish interior designer, dumped by her husband, moves across the country and finds love in another town in a relationship with a much younger man.

Love in Another Town

1997

A Father for Brittany poster
7.6

Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.

A Father for Brittany

1998

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover poster
3.6

When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

1996

The Good Fight poster
5.0

Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to other women. Now, Grace has a case she cannot win alone and, although she hates to admit it, she needs Henry's help.

The Good Fight

1992

Lies He Told poster
6.8

A charming military man arranges his own disappearance and death in order to begin a new life with a woman who is completely deceived by his lies. Bored by his military career and secure lifestyle with his wife, Cindy, and two children, Dave Bay falls in love with Alyson and plots a new existence. This new, deceptive life includes bank robberies committed as a desperate means to support his new family and hide his past. Inspired by actual events.

Lies He Told

1997

Whispers poster
3.9

A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.

Whispers

1990

Blood Brothers poster
8.3

Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his conscience over informing on Sly -- but this fear becomes secondary when the remaining gang members close in on both brothers and threaten their lives.

Blood Brothers

1994

Miles from Nowhere poster
10.0

Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a dream of completing a sub 4 minute mile and beating his arch rival. Cam persuades Frank to go to a party, when Frank wants to leave and Cam doesn't Frank decides to run home in the dark, with fatal consequences. Devastated by his friend's death and blaming himself, Cam decides to move from football to running with the goal of completing the sub 4 minute mile for his friend. A race against Frank's rival leaves the rival injured after falling off the track. The rival insults Frank and Cam starts a fight which leads to a disciplinary hearing, causing Cam to be banned from the championships. The rival organises another race though, to prove that he is better than Cam. The race is a close thing and Cam comes in a very close second, but in doing so breaks the 4 minute mile dream.

Miles from Nowhere

1992

1980s · 10 titles

Adventures in Babysitting poster
6.9

When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris' friend Brenda. Soon, Brad's buddy Daryl is involved, and the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians and much more.

Adventures in Babysitting

1987

Class of 1984 poster
6.4

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

Class of 1984

1982

Heavenly Bodies poster
5.7

A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.

Heavenly Bodies

1984

Shock-Trauma poster
10.0

Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.

Shock-Trauma

1982

Draw! poster
6.6

In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.

Draw!

1984

Joshua Then and Now poster
5.4

Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Joshua Then and Now

1985

The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog poster
5.7

The story of a champion sled dog named Kavik who survives a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska and is found and cared for by a young boy named Andy Evans. But the dog's owner finds Kavik and takes him back to his home in Colorado where the dog escapes and embarks on a 2,000-mile odyssey in search of Andy.

The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog

1980

No artwork available
5.0

A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.

The Running Man

1981

Many Happy Returns poster
4.8

In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.

Many Happy Returns

1986

No artwork available
NR

At the annual ballet recital, Elizabeth, much to her chagrin, is cast in the part of the boy. The other girls in the ballet class ridicule her; her parents are unsympathetic. Only her free-spirited Aunt Eadie seems to understand.

Jack of Hearts

1986

1970s · 9 titles

McCabe & Mrs. Miller poster
7.2

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971

Stone Cold Dead poster
5.9

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Stone Cold Dead

1979

Breaking Point poster
6.5

The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.

Breaking Point

1976

The Hard Part Begins poster
8.5

The ups and downs in the life of a country-western singer.

The Hard Part Begins

1973

Dead on Target poster
4.3

Dead on Target is the third and final film in the Our Man Flint movie trilogy. The film originally aired on ABC on March 17, 1976. The TV movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and Dead On Target became the last Derek Flint movie.

Dead on Target

1976

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses poster
4.8

Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke Sommer). As the trial draws to a close, Charles reflects on the events leading up to the terrible incident...

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

1978

Paperback Hero poster
5.6

A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.

Paperback Hero

1973

Breaking Up poster
NR

JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.

Breaking Up

1978

No artwork available
8.0

A historical comedy set in the 1850s, a rich land owner, Tobias Rouke, deals with interesting pioneer folk such as a traveling preacher peddler, mounted police and his crazy wives.

The Merry Wives of Tobias Rouke

1972

Series credits

Psych poster
7.9

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

Psych

2006

Newhart poster
7.2

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

Newhart

1982

Murphy Brown poster
6.5

Murphy Brown is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.

Murphy Brown

1988

The Dead Zone poster
7.3

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

The Dead Zone

2002

Millennium poster
7.7

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

Millennium

1996

Kid vs. Kat poster
7.9

Ten-year-old Coop Burtonburger's life takes a turn for the worse when his little sister, Millie, brings home a mysterious stray cat who, in reality, is an evil cybernetic alien in disguise. To make matters worse, neither his family nor anyone else believes him, except for his best friend, Dennis. Now, Coop risks his life every day as he attempts to foil the cat's diabolical schemes and prove to the world that the family pet is an evil mastermind.

Kid vs. Kat

2008

The Care Bears poster
6.1

The Care Bears live in a faraway place up in the clouds called Care-a-Lot. They travel around the world on Missions in Caring, whilst evil villains such as Professor Coldheart and Lord No Heart, try to thwart their plans.

The Care Bears

1985

Blood Ties poster
7.6

Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a vampire assists police in dealing with crime. It premiered in the United States on March 11, 2007 on Lifetime Television, and during fall of 2007 on Citytv and Space in Canada. In May 2008, Lifetime declined to renew the series.

Blood Ties

2007

Poltergeist: The Legacy poster
6.3

The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.

Poltergeist: The Legacy

1996

The Hidden Room poster
6.0

The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series. Geared mainly towards women, it aired on Lifetime for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in hardship, but with a dark Twilight Zone-esque twist. Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role.

The Hidden Room

1991

Beverly Hills Teens poster
5.9

Beverly Hills Teens is an animated children's television program which debuted in 1987, animated by DIC Entertainment. The namesake teenagers have exaggerated wealth, and face stereotypical teenage concerns. They represent a variety of English backgrounds. In 1989, Beverly Hills Teens was nominated for the Young Artist award for Best Animated Series. In the same year, the show was syndicated by Claster Television. The French dub is known as BéCéBéGé, or sometimes Le Club BCBG, a title derived from the acronym BCBG.

Beverly Hills Teens

1987

The Starlost poster
7.5

A huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark has gone off-course. Many of the descendants from the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are aboard a ship.

The Starlost

1973

Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series poster
6.6

Anne: The Animated Series was a half-hour animated television show produced by Sullivan Entertainment and created by writer/director/producer Kevin Sullivan. The series was developed for PBS and each episode contained an educational aspect. Each show had a problem for one or more of the show’s characters to face and solve. In conjunction with these problems, PBS “Ready-to-Learn” guides were created for teachers in America to use in the classrooms. The educational objectives of the show support a child’s development of his/her identity, reinforced through lateral thinking and the use of a child’s magnitude to absorb daily challenges, and it also appeared on some VHS tapes from Lyrick Studios, HiT Entertainment and Nest Family Entertainment. More recently, Sullivan Entertainment has re-written the “Ready-to-Learn” educational guides for the not-for-profit organization Free the Children. Free the Children will implement these Anne Lesson Plans in the Kenyan Schools they have built and hope to take them to other countries they work in around the world.

Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series

2001

The Third Twin poster
5.5

A biologist falls for a twin she is studying and confronts a scientist with evidence on a cloning scandal.

The Third Twin

1997

The New Archies poster
7.0

The New Archies is a children's television cartoon, based upon the long-running Archie comic books and characters. The series, produced by DIC Entertainment and originally airing on NBC, re-imagined Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and the other teenage students of Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Thirteen episodes of the show were produced, which all aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were repeated in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics series was produced bearing the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series. Reruns of the series ran on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup, 1991 to 1993 and on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002.

The New Archies

1987

Delilah poster
10.0

Delilah is a Canadian situation comedy television series that aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1974. Delilah is a Canadian sitcom that follows the story of Delilah, a woman who moves from the city to the small town of Egerton, Ontario. She takes over a heavily mortgaged barbershop that she inherited from her late father. While managing the barbershop, Delilah supports her teenage brother, Vince, as he completes his studies. As the town's first female barber, she faces the humorous challenges of breaking gender norms in a profession traditionally dominated by men during the 1970s.

Delilah

1973

Behind the camera