Lili Anne Taylor (born February , ) is an American actress notable for
her appearances in such indie films as Mystic Pizza (), Say
Anything... (), Dogfight (), Short Cuts (), The Addiction () and I
Shot Andy Warhol (), as well as big-budget films including Ransom (),
The Haunting (), Public Enemies (), The Conjuring (), and Maze Runner:
The Scorch Trials ().In television, she has starred in Six Feet Under,
Hemlock Grove, Almost Human, and all three seasons of the anthology
series American Crime. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
nomination.Taylor, the fifth of six children, was born in Glencoe,
Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago, to Marie (née Lecour) and George
Park Taylor, an artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a
"warm family environment", and has described herself as being "a bit
of a searcher" during her childhood. She graduated from New Trier High
School in Winnetka, Illinois in . Thereafter, she attended The Theatre
School at DePaul University before being cut from the acting program,
and the Piven Theatre Workshop.Taylor has appeared in dozens of films
since , including Dogfight, Mystic Pizza, and Rudy. Her work has
mostly been in independent films and theater. She played Lisa Kimmel
Fisher (mostly in the second and third seasons) in the HBO drama Six
Feet Under for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. Taylor
played supporting roles in Mystic Pizza () and Say Anything... (). She
starred in Dogfight () directed by Nancy Savoca, in which she played
an unattractive young woman who is taken to a cruel contest by a
Marine (played by River Phoenix) under the pretense of a date. In ,
she played Grace, the witty and romantic step-daughter of Faye
Dunaway, in the very poetic Arizona Dream (released ), directed by
Emir Kusturica, co-starring Johnny Depp, Vincent Gallo and Jerry
Lewis. In too, she re-teamed with Savoca for Household Saints.
Director Robert Altman hired Taylor in for his epic Los Angeles drama
Short Cuts, in which Taylor shared scenes with Lily Tomlin. Taylor
portrayed Valerie Solanas in Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol (). The
same year, she co-starred in Girls Town with Bruklin Harris and
Aunjanue Ellis, where three inner-city friends dealt with a friend's
suicide, and later in Ransom, as caterer who helps her corrupt
policeman boyfriend kidnap a rich man's son.
her appearances in such indie films as Mystic Pizza (), Say
Anything... (), Dogfight (), Short Cuts (), The Addiction () and I
Shot Andy Warhol (), as well as big-budget films including Ransom (),
The Haunting (), Public Enemies (), The Conjuring (), and Maze Runner:
The Scorch Trials ().In television, she has starred in Six Feet Under,
Hemlock Grove, Almost Human, and all three seasons of the anthology
series American Crime. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
nomination.Taylor, the fifth of six children, was born in Glencoe,
Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago, to Marie (née Lecour) and George
Park Taylor, an artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a
"warm family environment", and has described herself as being "a bit
of a searcher" during her childhood. She graduated from New Trier High
School in Winnetka, Illinois in . Thereafter, she attended The Theatre
School at DePaul University before being cut from the acting program,
and the Piven Theatre Workshop.Taylor has appeared in dozens of films
since , including Dogfight, Mystic Pizza, and Rudy. Her work has
mostly been in independent films and theater. She played Lisa Kimmel
Fisher (mostly in the second and third seasons) in the HBO drama Six
Feet Under for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. Taylor
played supporting roles in Mystic Pizza () and Say Anything... (). She
starred in Dogfight () directed by Nancy Savoca, in which she played
an unattractive young woman who is taken to a cruel contest by a
Marine (played by River Phoenix) under the pretense of a date. In ,
she played Grace, the witty and romantic step-daughter of Faye
Dunaway, in the very poetic Arizona Dream (released ), directed by
Emir Kusturica, co-starring Johnny Depp, Vincent Gallo and Jerry
Lewis. In too, she re-teamed with Savoca for Household Saints.
Director Robert Altman hired Taylor in for his epic Los Angeles drama
Short Cuts, in which Taylor shared scenes with Lily Tomlin. Taylor
portrayed Valerie Solanas in Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol (). The
same year, she co-starred in Girls Town with Bruklin Harris and
Aunjanue Ellis, where three inner-city friends dealt with a friend's
suicide, and later in Ransom, as caterer who helps her corrupt
policeman boyfriend kidnap a rich man's son.
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