Known for her roles in heavy dramas over the years, which have gathered the 51 year-old actress wide critical recognition for her work, now Laura Linney's net worth has now come into question, as many wonder whether her latest casting rumors could mean she's actually broke.

As anyone else in Hollywood, Linney has been a part of some ill-fated projects that didn't do well with critics or box office, but she's strived to be consistent in her work and often gets great reviews and critics, though mild box office success - but is Laura Linney's net worth in red numbers now?

The "Primal Fear" actress isn't usually in the biggest box office hits, and Laura Linney's net worth comes mostly from darker dramas that get good critics without necessarily being hugely successful, though this strategy has mostly paid the bills for the actress, maybe it hasn't been enough.

In fact, Laura Linney's net worth comes from a wide variety of films and television shows, since she started working in the early 1990s, with titles such as the 2003 romantic comedy "Love Actually," Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" and "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," her only recent attempt at something more in the area of box office smash.

As Food World News reported earlier today, Laura Linney's net worth has become a subject of some controversy in the past few days, as a report came out that the actress has been cast in the Michael Bay film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," now filming in New York - a sequel to one of the most heavily panned films of 2014, although it made hundreds of millions of dollars in the box office, making its budget back several times over.

However, the move to co-star in the film looks like an odd choice for the actress, as the original film has a 21 percent "Rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently, Laura Linney's net worth stands at $7 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, so being broke is definitely not the reason she's doing the movie.