Lili Taylor

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1967-02-20 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Glencoe, Illinois, USA

Also Known As Lili Anne Taylor, 莉莉·泰勒, لی‌لی تیلور

Lili Taylor

Biography

Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything... (1989) before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through starring roles in Bright Angel (1990), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints, Short Cuts (both 1993), The Addiction (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol,  Girls Town (both 1996), Pecker (1998), and A Slipping-Down Life (1999). Taylor is the recipient of four Independent Spirit nominations, winning once in the category of Best Supporting Female. Her other accolades include one Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Alongside her work on smaller-scale projects, Taylor has encountered mainstream success with parts in films such as Born on the Fourth of July(1989), Rudy (1993), Ransom (1996), The Haunting (1999), High Fidelity (2000), Brooklyn's Finest, Public Enemies (both 2009), The Conjuring (2013), and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Other credits include The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), The Promotion (2008), Being Flynn (2012), To the Bone, Leatherface (both 2017), Eli (2019), and Paper Spiders (2020). Outside film, Taylor has appeared in television series such as Almost Human (2013–2014), Hemlock Grove (2013–2014), and Outer Range (2022-2024). For her portrayal of Anne Blaine on three seasons of American Crime (2015–2017), she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress. She received two Emmy nominations for her roles as Marty Glenn on The X-Files (1998) and Lisa Kimmel on Six Feet Under (2002–2005). Taylor's stage credits include Broadway productions of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room (2017). She is married to playwright Nick Flynn, with whom she has a daughter.

Known For

Actor

2025
The Gettysburg Address

as Emily Souder (voice)

2024
Manhunt

as Mary Todd Lincoln

2022
Outer Range

as Cecilia Abbott

2021
2021
The Evening Hour

as Ruby Freeman

2021
2020
Perry Mason

as Birdy McKeegan

2019
Eli

as Dr. Isabella Horn

2018
The Nun

as Carolyn Perron

2017
Leatherface

as Verna Sawyer

2017
To the Bone

as Judy

2016
The Memory of Fish

as Narrator (voice)

2016
2015
A Woman Like Me

as Anna Seashell

2015
American Crime

as Nancy Straumberg

2015
American Crime

as Anne Blaine

2015
American Crime

as Clair Coates

2014
Gotham

as Patti

2013
Blood Ties

as Marie

2013
The Conjuring

as Carolyn Perron

2013
2013
The Cold Lands

as Nicole

2013
Almost Human

as Maldonado

2013
Hemlock Grove

as Lynda Rumancek

2012
Future Weather

as Ms. Markovi

2012
The Courier

as Mrs. Capo

2012
2012
About Cherry

as Phyllis

2011
The Pier

as Grace Ross

2010
Brooklyn's Finest

as Angela Procida

2009
Public Enemies

as Sheriff Lillian Holley

2009
The Good Wife

as Donna Seabrook

2008
The Promotion

as Lori Wehlner

2007
Starting Out in the Evening

as Ariel Schiller

2007
The Secret

as Hannah Marris

2007
9-11/9-11

as Julia

2007
State of Mind

as Ann Bellowes, MD

2005
2005
Factotum

as Jan

2003
2003
Penguins Behind Bars

as Doris Fairfeather

2002
Live from Baghdad

as Judy Parker

2002
The Weather Underground

as Narrator (voice)

2001
2001
Julie Johnson

as Julie Johnson

2001
Six Feet Under

as Lisa Kimmel Fisher

2000
High Fidelity

as Sarah Kendrew

2000
Deadline

as Hildy Baker

1999
The Haunting

as Nell

1999
A Slipping Down Life

as Evie Decker

1999
1998
The Impostors

as Lily 'Lil'

1998
Pecker

as Rorey Wheeler

1998
All Revved Up

as Rachel

1998
Letters Not About Love

as Lyn Hejinian (voice)

1997
1997
Subway Stories

as Belinda (segment "The Listeners")

1996
Ransom

as Maris

1996
Killer: A Journal of Murder

as Woman in Speakeasy

1996
Girls Town

as Patti

1996
Illtown

as Micky

1996
I Shot Andy Warhol

as Valerie Jean Solanas

1995
Four Rooms

as Raven

1995
The Addiction

as Kathleen Conklin

1995
Cold Fever

as Jill

1994
Prêt-à-Porter

as Fiona Ulrich

1994
Touch Base

as Darcy Winningham

1993
Short Cuts

as Honey Bush

1993
Rudy

as Sherry

1993
Household Saints

as Teresa Santangelo

1993
Watch It

as Brenda

1993
Arizona Dream

as Grace Stalker

1993
The X-Files

as Marty Glenn

1992
Mad About You

as Arley

1991
Dogfight

as Rose Fenny

1990
Bright Angel

as Lucy

1990
Sensibility and Sense

as Younger Marianne

1990
Family of Spies

as Laura Walker

1989
1989
Say Anything...

as Corey Flood

1988
Mystic Pizza

as JoJo Barboza

1988
She's Having a Baby

as Girl at Medical Lab

1987
1986
Crime Story

as Waitress

Writer

1999
Farscape

as Writer

1996
Girls Town

as Writer

Crew

2014
Take Care

as Thanks