Lili Taylor Biography
Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything, before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through starring roles in Bright Angles and Dogfight.
How old is Lili Taylor? – Age
Her age is 57 years old as of February 2024. The actress was born on February 20, 1967, in Glencoe, Illinois, United States.
Lili Taylor Height
Lili stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches tall.
Lili Taylor Early life
Lili is the fifth of six children born to Marie and 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 1985. Thereafter, she attended The Theatre School as DePaul University before being cut from the acting program for a policy violation and the Piven Theatre Workshop.
Is Lili Taylor married? – Husband
In 2009, the actress married writer Nick Flynn. They have a daughter Maeve, who was born sometime around 2008.
Lili Taylor Career
Taylor has appeared in dozens of films since 1988, including Dogfight, Mystic Pizza, and Rudy. Her work has mostly been in independent films and theater. She played Lisa Kimmel Fisher 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 under the pretense of a date.
In 1993, she re-teamed with Savoca for Household Saints. The same years, she co-starred in Girls Town with Bruklin Harris and Aunjanue Ellis, where three Inner-city friend’s dealt with a friend’s suicide, and later in Ransom, as caterer who helps corrupt policeman boyfriend kidnap a rich man’s son. In 1998, Lili appeared in the X-Files episode “Minds Eye”, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In 1999, Taylor starred in Jane de Bont’s remake of The Haunting. In 2001, she appeared in the independent feature Julie Johnson. The film, co-starring Courtney Love, centered on a Long Island mother and housewife who leaves her husband to pursue her dream of studying science.
She won the 2005 Best Actress award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival for her role in Factotum. In 2006, Taylor worked again with Mary Harron in The Notorious Bettie Page. She starred in the Lifetime cable network’s hour-long comedy-drama series State of Mind, as a New Haven therapist dealing with a divorce and a parade of quirky clients. In 2009, she played Sheriff Lillian Holley of Lake County, Indiana, who incarcerates John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies.
In 2014, Taylor starred alongside Chloe Grace Moretz in the off-Broadway play The Library directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Lili Taylor Net Worth
Her net worth is $4 million.
Lili Taylor Movie
1988 – She’s Having a Baby
1991 – Dogfight
1993 – Short Cuts
1993 – Rudy
1995 – Cold Fever
1996 – Ransom
1998 – Pecker
2000 – High Fidelity
2011 – The Pier
2013 – The Conjuring
2015 – A Woman Like Me
2017 – To the Bone
2019 – Eli
2020 – The Evening Hour
2021 – The Winter House
2023 – There There