The Big C

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The Big C

American television series

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Laura Linney
…cancer in the dramedy series The Big C on the cable channel Showtime. She won a Golden Globe Award for the role in 2011 and an Emmy Award in 2013. Linney’s later TV work included the Netflix series Ozark (2017–22), in which she portrayed the wife of a money launderer…
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…cancer in the dramedy series The Big C on the cable channel Showtime. She won a Golden Globe Award for the role in 2011 and an Emmy Award in 2013. Linney’s later TV work included the Netflix series Ozark (2017–22), in which she portrayed the wife of a money launderer…
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Susan Sarandon
TV shows
…the comedy-dramas Rescue Me and The Big C. In 2006 she portrayed tobacco heiress Doris Duke in the HBO television movie Bernard and Doris. She also was cast in HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack (2010), which examined the life of Jack Kevorkian, a doctor who was a vocal supporter of…
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…the comedy-dramas Rescue Me and The Big C. In 2006 she portrayed tobacco heiress Doris Duke in the HBO television movie Bernard and Doris. She also was cast in HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack (2010), which examined the life of Jack Kevorkian, a doctor who was a vocal supporter of…
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