Linda was born to parents, Wayne David Cardellini, a businessman by profession and Lorraine, a housewife. She is the youngest of the four siblings and a little spoilt for being the one. She is partly Italian, Irish, English, Scottish, and German and was raised as a catholic. At the age of 10, she made her first appearance on the stage when she sang in a school play and further, she acted in many of her school’s produced plays and started taking her drama lessons. She graduated from the St. Francis High School in the year 1993 and made her move to the city of Los Angeles to make her career as an actress while she sought roles in televisions and films.

Cardellini’s first recorded break in the year 1996 when she grabbed a starring role in ABC’s Saturday Morning Live-action children’s series, Bone Chillers. After this, she made her guest appearance on prime-time Tv shows Clueless, Step by Step, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and Boy Meets World. But, the major success of Cardellini was when she got her major and starring role in NBC series Freaks and Geeks which got telecasted in the year 1999-2000. For this, Cardellini’s got enough fame that was enough to boost her career for the next big project and that was the live-action adaptation of the famous Scooby-doo in the year 2000.

In the year 2003, she appeared in the hospital drama ER and also acted in several movies like Dead Man on Campus, Legally Blonde, The Goode Family and Comanche Moon, Brokeback Mountain, and Kill the Irishman. Her recent project is Sylvia in which she acted in 2013.

She won critics’ appraisal for her role in Brokeback Mountain and also made herself go nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Win for the best picture along with the exceptional Ensemble in a Motion Picture Drama sponsored by the Screen Actor’s Guild. She was also appeared in the sixth season of Mad Men and was honored with the first nomination of Emmy Awards for the title of “Outstanding Guest Actress in A Drama Series” for her representation. With this, her estimated net worth is somewhere around $2 millions.

Like her professional life, she has a struggling personal life too. She first dated Jason Segel for a few years until she started dating Steven Rodriguez. Later in the year 2011, Cardellini announced that she is pregnant with her partner’s child and gave birth to a daughter in the year 2012. Soon after her daughter came to the world, they got married and are celebrating their life together with the least chance of divorce taking place in between them. Her fan can follow her on her twitter account where she shares her everyday news and post fresh photographs and interact with her fans regularly.