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Chloë Sevigny

Highest Rated: 96% Love & Friendship (2016)

Lowest Rated: 7% The Snowman (2017)

Birthday: Nov 18, 1974

Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

An icon of fashion and independent film, actress/designer/model Chloe Sevigny became an "It Girl" of the 1990s thanks both to her impeccable sense of style, and uncanny penchant for being in the right place at the right time. True, Jay McInerey's 1994 profile in the New Yorker aided in the cause by literally christening her as such, but it was her Academy Award-nominated performance in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999) that cemented her lasting success. Sevigny was the younger of two siblings (older brother Paul was a NYC DJ) living in Springfield, Massachusetts when their insurance-salesman father relocated the clan to the upper-crust suburb of Darien, Connecticut. A childhood bout with scoliosis went untreated, leaving the well-mannered girl with a permanently-tweaked posture, but Sevigny passed the time reworking thrift-store scores into outfits that were two-steps ahead of anything in Vogue. The suburbs left Sevigny bored, and one day during an excursion to The Village, the seventeen-year-old was spotted at a newsstand by Sassy fashion editor Andrea Lee Linett. The budding model quickly landed an internship at Sassy. People were beginning to take notice of Sevigny, who, feeling like a bohemian outcast in her parents' posh neighborhood, fled to Washington Square Park to hang out with skateboarders like Harmony Korine. At the time, photographer Larry Clark was there planning his feature debut. Together, Clark and Korine conceived "Kids" (1994), a cinema verite drama about a group of self destructive street kids in New York City. The story centers on Jennie (Sevigny), and her quest to find the boy who infected her with HIV. The film was a critical hit, and Sevigny was singled out by critics for the tenderness she brought to such a harrowing film. Subsequent roles in "Trees Lounge" (1996) and "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) led to a soulful turn as the girlfriend of transgendered Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999). The role displayed a depth of acting talent heretofore unseen, earning her an Oscar nomination and an Independent Spirit award. Sevigny's ability to effortlessly alternate between transgressive fare like Korine's "Gummo" (1997) and Julien Donkey Boy" (1999) and more prestigious films like Lars Von Trier's "Dogville" (2003) and Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda" (2004) made it easy to overlook missteps like Vincent Gallo's critically-derided "The Brown Bunny" (2003). Personal experience made it easy for Sevigny to essay the role of a club kids in the kinetic true-crime drama "Party Monster" (2003), and she scored a Golden Globe as a wife of a Salt Lake City polygamist on "Big Love" (HBO 2006-2011). Sevigny stayed busy on the small screen with roles in "Portlandia" (IFC 2011-18), "The Mindy Project" (Fox/Hulu 2012-17), and "American Horror Story" (FX 2011-) all while continuing to blaze her own unique trail on the catwalks and the glossy pages of fashion magazines worldwide.

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Highest rated movies

96% 59% Love & Friendship Watchlist
92% 79% Shattered Glass
Watchlist
91% 87% Boys Don't Cry Watchlist 90% 77% Zodiac Watchlist 90% 75% Lean on Pete Watchlist
87% 70% Broken Flowers
Watchlist
86% 77% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Watchlist
83% 60% Slow Machine Watchlist 82% 63% Bones and All Watchlist 82% 92% Queen & Slim Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
62% No Score Yet Bonjour Tristesse Unknown (Character) - 2024
82% 63% Bones and All Unknown (Character) $7.8M 2022
83% 60% Slow Machine Chloe (Character) - 2020
78% 65% The True Adventures of Wolfboy Jen (Character) - 2019
82% 92% Queen & Slim Mrs. Shepherd (Character) $43.8M 2019
54% 38% The Dead Don't Die Officer Mindy Morrison (Character) $6.5M 2019
40% 43% Look Away Carolyn (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Echo Director,
Screenwriter
- 2019
66% 49% Lizzie Lizzie Borden (Character),
Producer
$639.2K 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Todo en familia 2 Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cógete a mi esposa Unknown (Character) - 2018
90% 75% Lean on Pete Bonnie (Character) $1.2M 2017
67% 36% Golden Exits Alyssa (Character) $37.5K 2017
7% 19% The Snowman Sylvia/Ann Ottersen (Character) $6.7M 2017
75% 53% Beatriz at Dinner Shannon (Character) $7.1M 2017
46% 16% The Dinner Barbara Lohman (Character) $1.3M 2017
68% 33% Antibirth Sadie (Character) - 2016
96% 59% Love & Friendship Alicia Johnson (Character) $14.0M 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kitty Director - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jack Brett (Character) - 2016
46% 10% #Horror Alex Cox (Character) - 2015
14% 28% Electric Slide Charlotte (Character) - 2014
56% 29% Little Accidents Kendra (Character) $10.1K 2014
33% 23% The Wait Emma (Character) $2.1K 2013
53% 44% Mr. Nice Judy Marks (Character) - 2010
47% 37% Barry Munday Jennifer Farley (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet All Flowers in Time Holly (Character) - 2010
50% 44% My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Ingrid (Character) - 2009
67% 41% The Killing Room Ms. Reilly (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deathbowl to Downtown Narrator - 2008
90% 77% Zodiac Melanie (Character) $33.0M 2007
No Score Yet 32% Lying Megan (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 12% Sisters Grace Collier (Character) - 2006
36% 68% 3 Needles Clara the Novice (Character) - 2005
50% 75% Manderlay Philomena (Character) $74.2K 2005
87% 70% Broken Flowers Carmen's assistant (Character) $13.7M 2005
51% 47% Melinda and Melinda Laurel (Character) $3.8M 2004
50% 39% Death of a Dynasty Sexy Woman No. 1 (Character) $41.4K 2003
47% 45% The Brown Bunny Daisy (Character) $365.7K 2003
92% 79% Shattered Glass Caitlin Avey (Character) $2.2M 2003
29% 75% Party Monster Gitsie (Character) $668.1K 2003
52% 40% Demonlover Elise (Character) $231.8K 2002
86% 77% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet Unknown (Character) - 2002
68% 85% American Psycho Jean (Character) $15.0M 2000
60% 83% If These Walls Could Talk 2 Amy (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Psycho (Uncut Version) Unknown (Character) - 2000
67% 56% A Map of the World Carole Mackessy (Character) $593.6K 1999
29% 72% Julien Donkey-Boy Pearl (Character) $80.2K 1999
91% 87% Boys Don't Cry Lana Tisdel (Character) $11.5M 1999
73% 65% The Last Days of Disco Alice (Character) $3.0M 1998
39% 31% Palmetto Odette (Character) $5.8M 1998
39% 73% Gummo Dot (Character),
Costume Design
$87.4K 1997
81% 79% Trees Lounge Debbie (Character) $673.3K 1996
47% 77% Kids Jennie (Character) $5.4M 1995

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 28% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2024
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2022 2024
52% 69% Monsters Kitty Menendez (Character) 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2024
86% 78% Feud C.Z. Guest (Character) 2024
98% 81% Poker Face Ruby Ruin (Guest Star) 2023
91% 51% The Girl From Plainville Lynn Roy (Character) 2022
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2022
97% 76% Russian Doll Lenora Vulvokov (Character) 2022
90% 75% We Are Who We Are Sarah (Character) 2020
88% 92% The Act Mel (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Your Roots Guest 2019
85% 88% Comrade Detective Sonya Baciu (Guest Voice) 2017
77% 66% American Horror Story Dr. Alex Lowe (Character),
Shelley (Guest Star)
2012 2015-2016
28% 69% Those Who Kill Catherine Jensen (Character) 2014
86% 83% The Mindy Project Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
94% 81% Portlandia Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
93% 95% Louie Jeanie (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hit & Miss Unknown (Character) 2012
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Christine Hartwell (Guest Star) 2012
80% 82% Big Love Nicolette Grant (Character) 2006-2007 2009-2011
No Score Yet 88% Will & Grace Monet (Guest Star) 2004