Lili Taylor

At 57 years old, Lili Taylor has this physical status:

Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American actress best known for her appearances in such award-winning independent films as Mystic Pizza (1988), Say Anything (1991), and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), as well as many big-budget films including Ransom (1999), The Conjuring (1999), and Maze Runner (2015). She has appeared in Six Feet Under, Hemlock Grove, Almost Human, and all three seasons of the anthology film American Crime; for the latter, she was given a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nomination.

Early life

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 manager. She grew up in a "warm family environment" and has described herself as "a bit of a hunter" during her childhood. In 1985, she graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. She continued attending The Theatre School at DePaul University until being dropped from the acting program and the Piven Theatre Workshop.

Personal life

Taylor married writer Nick Flynn in 2009. Maeve, the couple's daughter.

Michael Rapaport, Taylor's ex boyfriend, was arrested in May 1997 for bullying Taylor and charged with two counts of aggravated harassment. He pleaded guilty to the charges. Justice Arlene Goldberg of New York ordered him not to contact Taylor and force him to attend therapy.

Taylor is a campaigner against wildlife conservation, especially those involving birds, and he serves on the board of the American Birding Association and National Audubon Society. In the early 1990s, Louise Post and Nina Gordon, founding members of the 1990s alternative band Veruca Salt, met in the early 1990s.

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Career

Since 1988, Taylor has appeared in scores of films, including Dogfight, Mystic Pizza, and Rudy. Her main interests have been in independent films and theater. Lisa Kimmel Fisher was primarily in the second and third seasons of HBO's Six Feet Under for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. Taylor appeared in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything (1989). She appeared in Dogfight (1991), directed by Nancy Savoca, in which she played an unattractive young woman who is subjected to a brutal fight by a Marine (played by River Phoenix) under the pretense of a date. Grace, Faye Dunaway's witty and romantic step-daughter, was directed by Emir Kusturica in 1991, co-starring Johnny Depp, Vincent Gallo, and Jerry Lewis. She re-teamed with Savoca for Household Saints in 1993. Taylor was hired by director Robert Altman in 1993 for his epic Los Angeles drama Short Cuts, in which Taylor performed scenes with Lily Tomlin. In Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Taylor portrayed Valerie Solanas. She appeared in Girls Town with Bruklin Harris and Aunjanue Ellis in the first year, and later in Ransom as the caterer who assists her corrupt policeman boyfriend in kidnapping a wealthy man's son.

She appeared in the X-Files episode "Mind's Eye" in 1998 and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Pecker, John Waters' film, starred Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, and Mary Kay Place the same year. Taylor appeared in Jan de Bont's The Haunting remake in 1999. Taylor appeared in Julie Johnson's independent film in 2001. Courtney Love, a co-starring actress, portrayed a Long Island mother and housewife who had left her husband to pursue her science aspirations. Taylor made her New York City debut in the role of Lemon in Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon in early 2004.

Taylor was named the 2005 Best Actress at the Copenhagen International Film Festival for her role in Factotum. Taylor worked with Mary Harron in The Notorious Bettie Page in 2006. She appeared in the Lifetime cable network's hour-long comedy drama State of Mind as a New Haven therapist struggling with a divorce and a slew of eccentric clients. In Andrew Wagner's 2007 film Starting Out in the Evening, she played the daughter of Frank Langella's character. Lori Wehlner, the wife of John C. Reilly's character, appeared in the 2008 film The Promotion. In Michael Mann's Public Enemies, Taylor played Sheriff Lillian Holley of Lake County, Indiana, who incarcerates John Dillinger. Fence Books published poet Ariana Reines' Save The World in 2011. Taylor appeared in The Conjuring, a horror film from 2013.

Taylor appeared alongside Chlo Grace Moretz in Steven Soderbergh's off-Broadway play The Library. Dr. Mary Cooper, "a doctor who supports Thomas and his fellow Gladers," the following year, co-starred in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. The film began in October and was released on September 18, 2015. Taylor appeared in Paper Spiders in 2020 opposite Stefania Lavington Owen.

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