Lily Rabe

At 41 years old, Lily Rabe has this physical status:

Lily Rabe (born June 29, 1982) is an American actress.

She received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

Rabe is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story, and her lead role as Claire Bennigan on the ABC science fiction series The Whispers.

Early life

Rabe was born on New York City's Upper West Side, the daughter of playwright David Rabe and actress Jill Clayburgh. She has a younger brother, Michael, an actor and playwright; and an older paternal half-brother, Jason, a musician. Her father is Roman Catholic, her maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was Protestant. Rabe was raised in Bedford, and moved to Lakeville, Connecticut when she was in seventh grade, where she attended the Hotchkiss School.

Rabe studied dance for ten years. She was teaching ballet at a summer arts program in Connecticut when she was approached by the program's acting instructor, who asked her to perform a monologue in the final production. She read a monologue from the play Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. She said, "It was that moment, performing that monologue, that made me think, 'Maybe this is what I wanna do'." She then went on to study acting at Northwestern University, graduating in 2004.

Personal life

In December 2016, it was reported that Rabe was expecting her first child with boyfriend Hamish Linklater. She gave birth to a girl in March 2017. In June 2020, they had their second daughter. In September 2021, Rabe announced her third pregnancy with Linklater.

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Career

In 2001, Rabe made her screen debut opposite her mother Jill Clayburgh in the film Never Again. At the Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts, she made her professional debut opposite her mother again. She appeared in two one-act plays, Speaking Well of the Dead by Israel Horovitz and The Crazy Girl by Frank Pugliese, which earned her an Equity Card. She returned to the Gloucester Stage Company in July 2003 to appear in Proof by David Auburn. She appeared in Mona Lisa Smile in 2005 and then appeared in the film Mona Lisa Smile. She returned to New York after graduating. She appeared in White Jesus by Deirdre O'Connor, one of a series of one-act plays produced by the Naked Angels Theatre Company from September 29 to October 2, 2004.

She appeared in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, directed by Joe Mantello, on January 21, 2005. Annelle Dupuy-Desoto performed in Robert Harling's 2005 revival of Steel Magnolias directed by Jason Moore for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She had been cast in the play Sisters of the Garden but she had to leave after being cast in Steel Magnolias. She appeared in the American premiere of Colder Than Here by English playwright Laura Wade at the MCC Theater, prompting New York Magazine's Jeremy McCarter to name her performance "one of the finest breakthroughs" of 2005. She appeared in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw from September to December 2006. In 2007, she appeared in the film No Reservations.

In August 2007, Rabe appeared in Crimes of the Heart at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the actor's debut. The performance went Off-Broadway to the Laura Pels Theatre, where it was staged by the Roundabout Theatre Company and ran from February 14 to April 13. A piece of the set fell on Rabe, leaving her with a fractured rib and prompting her to miss a week of preview performances; the opening night was changed from February 7 to February 14.

In the pilot of HBO's Last of the Ninth, written by David Milch and directed by Carl Franklin in August 2008, Rabe was depicted as a plainclothes cop. HBO had apparently decided not to pick it up as a series in December 2008. Rabe appeared in the films What Just Happened and The Toe Tactic, as well as two episodes of Medium this year. She appeared in Richard Greenberg's 1990 play The American Plan from January to March 2009 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. She made her debut appearance at Shakespeare in the Park in 2010, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, and ran from June 30 to August 1. Rabe was portrayed as Portia, which she described as "one of the finest female roles" in the film. All Good Things co-starred in the 2010 film All Good Things.

In a role described as a "smashing break-out," Rabe appeared in The Merchant of Venice, opposite Al Pacino as Shylock. The show was staged at the Broadhurst Theater in New York City, where it ran from October 19 to February 20, 2011. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in a Play. She was cast in the FOX drama pilot Exit Strategy in March 2011. FOX had passed on the pilot in July, according to the company. Rabe appeared in a Henrik Ibsen production at A Doll's House, where she appeared as Nora Helmer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival once more.

Nora Montgomery of FX's American Horror Story made her first regular appearance on a television show in August 2011. Sister Mary Eunice McKee, who appeared in the second season, was reprised in the fourth season. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries award for the second season. Misty Day, a resurgent witch created for her by co-creator Ryan Murphy, was also seen in the third season as a resurgent witch. She appeared in the "Devil's Night" episode as a special guest star, as Aileen Wuornos. Shelby Miller played a key role in the sixth season. Rabe is one of only three actors to appear in the first six seasons of the show. Rabe returned to Camp Redwood, a traumatic summer retreat with a history of massacres, in 2019.

In Theresa Rebeck's Broadway play Seminar, Rabe appeared at the Golden Theatre. Alan Rickman, Jerry O'Connell, Hamish Linklater, and Hettienne Park were among the cast members, directed by Sam Gold. It opened on November 20, 2011 and concluded on May 6, 2012. Rabe would play actress Mary Pickford in The First, a film based on Eileen Whitfield's book Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. She completed her role in As You Like It, the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare in the Park for the 50th season of Shakespeare in the Park. Rosalind was a member of the Rosalind Company, which opened on June 11, 2012 and concluded on June 30, 2012. Rabe will appear in We're Just Married, a film written by her father and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, in October 2012. Rabe was also a film producer. Miss Julie by August Strindberg, adapted and directed by Neil LaBute, made her Los Angeles stage debut in May 2013. In September 2013, she was cast as Commander Lyme in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, the final two installments of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games film series, based on Suzanne Collins' novels. She was later added to the films by Gwendoline Christie due to a scheduling conflict.

Rabe would appear in Much Ado About Nothing as part of the 2014 Shakespeare in the Park season, according to the park's director on February 14. On June 3, the production began on June 3 and ran until July 6. In 2014, she appeared in Pawn Sacrifice, a film biopic about chess player Bobby Fischer, played Fischer's sister Joan Targ. Rabe will appear in Thomas Jane and Jessica Alba's horror film The Veil on February 24, it was announced. It was announced on January 19, 2016 via video on demand, well before its home-media debut on February 2, 2016. Rabe will be seen in The Visitors, ABC's drama pilot, on the day. The pilot was later named The Whispers and was officially picked up by ABC in May 2014. The series premiered on June 1, 2015 and was then cancelled on October 19, 2015 after one season. In May 2016, Rabe was cast in Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits film.

Rabe appeared in the tenth season of American Horror Story in August 2021, as Doris Gardner in the first half and Amelia Earhart in the second. It was her first appearance as part of Roanoke's main cast since Roanoke.

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