Chloë Sevigny
Highest Rated: 97% Love & Friendship (2016)
Lowest Rated: 7% The Snowman (2017)
Birthday: Nov 18, 1974
Birthplace: Darien, Connecticut, USA
Before she became an actress, Chloë Sevigny was Jay McInerney's "It" girl. After sighting the young Sevigny on the streets of New York, where she repeatedly drew notice for her distinct, idiosyncratic fashion sense, the yuppie author was moved to dedicate a seven-page New Yorker spread to her, in the course of which he anointed her with said title. Whether or not she was "It," Sevigny did enjoy a rudimentary helping of fame: at the time, she was an intern at Sassy magazine, where she had been employed after magazine writers spotted her and used her as a model for their publication. So, before her film career began, Sevigny was perhaps the country's other most famous intern.Born November 18th, 1974 and raised in the wealthy, conservative suburb of Darien, Connecticut in 1974, Sevigny began hanging out in New York as a teenager. After her initial recognition from Sassy and McInerney, she made her screen debut in Larry Clark's Kids. Sevigny played one of the few sympathetic characters in the controversial 1995 film, a teen infected with AIDS by the so-called "virgin surgeon" to whom she had lost her virginity. The following year, she appeared as a bored Long Island teen in Steve Buscemi's directorial debut, Trees Lounge, and then went on to collaborate with Kids screenwriter and then-boyfriend Harmony Korine on Gummo (1997). Her pairing with the iconoclastic Korine led one magazine to dub them as the new John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, but the film was savaged by some critics and virtually ignored by its intended arthouse audience.More substantial luck greeted Sevigny in her 1998 role in Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco; the film won a number of positive reviews, with praise for Sevigny's portrayal of a thoughtful Hampshire graduate trying to make it in the publishing world. The actress' other film that year, the little-seen Palmetto, cast her as a millionaire's stepdaughter. Sevigny was back the following year in A Map of the World, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival; Boys Don't Cry, in which she played the girlfriend of Brandon Teena, a real-life girl who passed as a boy; and Julien Donkey-Boy, her third collaboration with screenwriter-turned-director Korine. Sevigny's role in Boys Don't Cry courted particular notice and critical praise, earning Sevigny Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. Further notice greeted her part in American Psycho, Mary Harron's incredibly controversial 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. Continuing to appear in such features as Demonlover and Party Monster in 2003, Sevigny once again found herself involved in a controversial film with her role in Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny. Premiering to much critical derision at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival (film critic Roger Ebert was quoted as saying it may be the worst film in the history of the festival), Sevigny shocked audiences by performing fellatio on the director/star in the film's explicit coda.Undeterred by the controversy surrounding The Brown Bunny, Sevigny's star continued to rise with supporting roles in such well-received projects as Shattered Glass and Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. In 2006, she took her first shot at series television with a starring role on the HBO polygamy drama Big Love. Playing alongside Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin, Sevigny and the show both received high marks from critics and audiences.Along with the second season of Big Love, in 2007 audiences could find Sevigny in David Fincher's acclaimed serial-killer docudrama Zodiac.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82% | Queen & Slim | Mrs. Shepherd | — | 2019 |
| 40% | Love Is Blind | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 54% | The Dead Don't Die | Officer Mindy Morrison Mindy Morrison | — | 2019 |
| 89% | The True Adventures of Wolfboy | Jen | — | 2019 |
| 66% | Lizzie | Lizzie Borden Producer | — | 2018 |
| 90% | Lean on Pete | Bonnie | — | 2018 |
| 7% | The Snowman | Sylvia Ottersen | $6.7M | 2017 |
| 75% | Beatriz at Dinner | Actor | $7.2M | 2017 |
| 46% | The Dinner | Barbara Lohman | — | 2017 |
| 70% | Antibirth | Sadie | — | 2016 |
| 97% | Love & Friendship | Alicia Johnson | $14.1M | 2016 |
| 46% | #Horror | Alex Cox | — | 2015 |
| 14% | Electric Slide | Charlotte | — | 2015 |
| 54% | Little Accidents | Kendra | $5.5M | 2015 |
| 31% | The Wait | Emma | — | 2014 |
| 53% | Lovelace | Female Journalist | $0.4M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Black Dog, Red Dog | Actor | — | 2013 |
| 53% | Mr. Nice | Judy Marks | — | 2011 |
| 77% | Beautiful Darling | Candy Darling | $13.9K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Fight For Your Right Revisited | Metal Chick | — | 2011 |
| 47% | Barry Munday | Jennifer Farley | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | All Flowers In Time | Holly | — | 2010 |
| 49% | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Ingrid | — | 2010 |
| 71% | The Killing Room | Ms. Reilly | — | 2009 |
| 89% | Zodiac | Melanie | $33.1M | 2007 |
| 36% | 3 Needles | Clara | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Sisters | Grace Collier | — | 2006 |
| 50% | Manderlay | Philomena | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Lying | Megan | — | 2006 |
| 87% | Broken Flowers | Carmen's Assistant | $13.6M | 2005 |
| 52% | Melinda and Melinda | Laurel | $3.8M | 2005 |
| 43% | Mrs. Harris | Lynne Tryforos | — | 2005 |
| 46% | The Brown Bunny | Daisy | — | 2004 |
| 92% | Shattered Glass | Caitlin Avey | $2.2M | 2003 |
| 50% | Demonlover | Elise Lipsky | $39.8K | 2003 |
| 29% | Party Monster | Gitsie | $0.3M | 2003 |
| 47% | Death of a Dynasty | Sexy Woman No.1 | — | 2003 |
| 70% | Dogville | Liz Henson | $1.5M | 2003 |
| 86% | Ten Minutes Older | Actor | — | 2002 |
| 69% | American Psycho | Jean | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Amy | — | 2000 |
| 65% | A Map of the World | Carole Mackessy | — | 1999 |
| 28% | Julien Donkey-Boy | Pearl | — | 1999 |
| 88% | Boys Don't Cry | Lana | — | 1999 |
| 73% | Last Days of Disco | Alice | — | 1998 |
| 36% | Gummo | Dot | — | 1997 |
| 39% | Palmetto | Odette | — | 1997 |
| 81% | Trees Lounge | Debbie | — | 1996 |
| 46% | Kids | Jennie | — | 1995 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 85% |
We Are Who We Are 2020 |
Sarah Sarah Wilson |
2020 |
| No Score Yet |
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2012 |
Appearing |
2019 |
| 97% |
Russian Doll 2019 |
Lenora |
2019 |
| 89% |
The Act 2019 |
Mel |
2019 |
| 94% |
Portlandia 2011-2018 |
Alexandra |
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 |
| 85% |
Comrade Detective 2017 |
Voice |
2017 |
| 62% |
Bloodline 2015-2017 |
Chelsea O'Bannon |
2017 2016 2015 |
| 76% |
American Horror Story 2012 |
Shelley |
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
American Horror Story: Hotel 2015 |
Alex Lowe |
2015 2011 |
| 62% |
Doll & Em 2014-2015 |
Herself |
2014 |
| 77% |
The Cosmopolitans 2014 |
Vicky |
2014 |
| 28% |
Those Who Kill 2014 |
Catherine Jensen |
2014 |
| 86% |
The Mindy Project 2012-2017 |
Christine Christina |
2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Hit & Miss 2012 |
Mia |
2012 |
| 78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999 |
Christine |
2012 |
| 94% |
Louie 2010-2015 |
Jeanie |
2012 |
| 83% |
RuPaul's Drag Race 2009 |
Appearing |
2011 |
| 80% |
Big Love 2006-2011 |
Nicki Henrickson Nicki Grant |
2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Will & Grace 1998 |
Monet |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
Guest |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
The Mindy Project |
Christina |
QUOTES FROM Chloë Sevigny CHARACTERS
Alex Cox says: Enjoy yourselves while you're young. It won't last long.
Ms. Reilly says: Where do we draw the line?
Dr. Phillips says: When we have to fight fire with fire, there's no more line.
Alice says: Do you really think we know each other well enough to room together?
Charlotte says: Well maybe that’s good.
Charlotte says: Well maybe that's good.
Alice says: It’s not just that we don’t know each other well, I’m not really sure we even like each other.
Alice says: It's not just that we don't know each other well, I'm not really sure we even like each other.
Charlotte says: That’s okay.
Charlotte says: That's okay.
Liz Henson says: Honestly, Tom, you've done it again. Made us come here to listen to a lot of nonsense. Who do you think you are? Some kind of philosopher?
Tom Edison says: Observant, that's what I am.
Ma Ginger says: Lazy, I would say.
Stephen Glass says: Hey I threw a party where all we did was play Monopoly would guys come?
Caitlin says: Could I be the little shoe?
Stephen Glass says: Of Course
Stephen Glass says: Of Course.
Stephen Glass says: Catlin: "That's what this is of course, I mean what are you gonna do Chuck? Pick us all off one by one every one that was loyal to Mike, so you have staff that belongs to you? Is that the kinda magazine you wanna run?"
Caitlin says: That's what this is of course, I mean what are you gonna do Chuck? Pick us all off one by one every one that was loyal to Mike, so you have staff that belongs to you? Is that the kinda magazine you wanna run?
Stephen Glass says: Chuck:"Catlin when this thing blows there isn't gonna be a magazine anymore! If you wanna make it about Mike make it about Mike I don't give a shit. You can hate me you can resent me but come Monday morning we're all gonna have to answer for what we let happen here we're all gonna have apology to make! Jesus Christ do you have any idea how much shit we're about to eat? Every competitor that we took a shot there gonna pounce and they should. Because we blew it Caitlin. He handed us fiction after fiction and we printed them all as fact. All because we found him entertaining. It's indefensible don't you know that?"
Chuck Lane says: Catlin when this thing blows there isn't gonna be a magazine anymore! If you wanna make it about Mike make it about Mike I don't give a shit. You can hate me you can resent me but come Monday morning we're all gonna have to answer for what we let happen here we're all gonna have apology to make! Jesus Christ do you have any idea how much shit we're about to eat? Every competitor that we took a shot there gonna pounce and they should. Because we blew it Caitlin. He handed us fiction after fiction and we printed them all as fact. All because we found him entertaining. It's indefensible don't you know that?
Lana says: Look how beautiful is out there. It's us. We can just be ourselves out there.
Ellis says: We're going to this little bistro in downtown west. It's very quiet, very dark, very french.
Laurel says: I haven't been to a dark bistro since college.
Ellis says: Well come on, you're going to love it. I've fallen in love there a bunch of times.
Jean says: What's that?
Patrick Bateman says: Duct tape. I need it for .. taping something.
Jean says: Patrick, have you ever wanted to make someone happy? [sets dirty spoon on table]
Patrick Bateman says: No! Put it in the carton!
Jean says: Sorry!
Patrick Bateman says: [pause] Jean? .. What?
Jean says: Make someone happy .. have you ever wanted too?
Patrick Bateman says: [walks around behind her] looking for, uh .. [holds nail gun up to the back of her head] I guess you could say I just want to have a meaningful relationship with someone special.
Jean says: Hmm .. [phone rings]