
Lili Taylor
Biography
Lili Anne Taylor (born February 20, 1967) is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything... (1989), before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema through starring roles in Bright Angel (1990), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints, Short Cuts (both 1993), The Addiction (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), and Pecker (1998). Taylor is the recipient of four Independent Spirit nominations, winning once in the category of Best Supporting Female.
Alongside her work on smaller-scale projects, Taylor has encountered mainstream success with parts in films such as Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Rudy (1993), Ransom (1996), High Fidelity (2000), Public Enemies (2009), The Conjuring (2013), and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Other credits include The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), To the Bone (2017), and Paper Spiders (2020).
Outside of film, Taylor has appeared in an array of television series. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress award for portraying Anne Blaine on American Crime (2015–2017). She received two more Emmy nominations for her guest role as Marty Glenn on The X-Files (1998) episode "Mind's Eye" and for her recurring role as Lisa Kimmel on Six Feet Under (2002–2005). Taylor's stage credits include Broadway productions of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room (2017).
Acting (76 movies)

Four Rooms
1995

High Fidelity
2000

Say Anything...
1989

Short Cuts
1993

Born on the Fourth of July
1989

Prêt-à-Porter
1994

Ransom
1996

Factotum
2005

The Winter House
2021

Arizona Dream
1993

Mystic Pizza
1988

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994

The Haunting
1999

Pecker
1998

I Shot Andy Warhol
1996

Brooklyn's Finest
2010

The Promotion
2008

The Impostors
1998

The Addiction
1995

Live from Baghdad
2002

The Secret
2007

Rudy
1993

Dogfight
1991

The Notorious Bettie Page
2005

Casa de los Babys
2003

A Slipping Down Life
1999

Cold Fever
1995

Kicked in the Head
1997

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996

About Cherry
2012

Being Flynn
2012

Bright Angel
1990

The Courier
2012

Illtown
1996

Love, Marilyn
2013

Julie Johnson
2001

Girls Town
1996

Things I Never Told You
1996

Watch It
1993

Household Saints
1993

The Conjuring
2013

Blood Ties
2013

There There
2022

The Cold Lands
2013

The Pier
2011

Gaudi Afternoon
2001

Sensibility and Sense
1990

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015

The Many Miracles of Household Saints
2024

A Woman Like Me
2015

All Revved Up
1998

Fear Street: Prom Queen
2025

Leatherface
2017

Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011

Public Enemies
2009

To the Bone
2017

The Weather Underground
2002

She's Having a Baby
1988

The Memory of Fish
2016

Letters Not About Love
1998

Penguins Behind Bars
2003

Talking with the Vampires
2018

Starting Out in the Evening
2007

Night of Courage
1987

Eli
2019

The Nun
2018

The Gettysburg Address
2025

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020

The Evening Hour
2021

Subway Stories
1997

Paper Spiders
2021

Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
2005

Future Weather
2012

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026

The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Girls Town | 1996 | Writer |