Lili Taylor

Lili Anne Taylor, born February 20, 1967, is an American actress. She rose to prominence through supporting roles in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything... (1989), before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through leading roles in Bright Angel (1990), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints, Short Cuts (1993), The Addiction (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and Pecker (1998). Taylor received four Independent Spirit Award nominations, winning once for Best Supporting Female.

Alongside her smaller-scale projects, Taylor achieved mainstream success with films such as Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Rudy (1993), Ransom (1996), The Haunting (1999), High Fidelity (2000), Public Enemies (2009), The Conjuring (2013) and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Her other films include Factotum, The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), To the Bone (2017) and Paper Spiders (2020).

Outside of film, Taylor has appeared in several television series. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role as Anne Blaine in the ABC drama series American Crime (2015–2017). She received two other Emmy nominations, for her guest role as Marty Glenn in the X-Files episode “Mind's Eye” (1998), and for her recurring role as Lisa Kimmel in Six Feet Under (2002–2005), on HBO. On stage, Taylor performed on Broadway in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room (2017).