Angela Goethals

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Angela Bethany Goethals (born May 20, 1977) is an American actress who works in film, TV, and on stage. She started on Broadway in 1987 and, at age 14, won an Obie Award for The Good Times Are Killing Me. She played Linnie, Macaulay Culkin’s sister in Home Alone (1990) and later starred in Phenom (1993). She also had a small part in Jerry Maguire (1996). Goethals graduated from Vassar College in 1999 with a degree in French. She appeared on the TV show 24 (2005) and starred in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006). Her last role was in the 2018 short P.T.A-Holes.

Goethals grew up in New York City. Her mother, Rosalind, was a teacher, and she has a sister named Sara. She is a great-great-granddaughter of George Washington Goethals, the Panama Canal engineer after whom the Goethals Bridge is named. Her first professional acting job was as an understudy in The Widow Claire (1986). She also appeared in Rocket Gibraltar (1988) and Heartbreak Hotel (1988), and later acted in Do Over (2002), Spanglish (2004), and various TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, and Crossing Jordan.