| Actress and screenwriter. Born February 20, 1967
Lili Taylor is not a "pretty" actress, in the traditional Hollywood sense of the word. You will never see her cast in a big budget film as a romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck or Matt Damon. What Taylor is is an amazingly talented actress that deserves more recognition in Tinseltown. She is one of the most gifted character actors around, having performed in over a dozen films playing everything from a grad student vampire to a religious fanatic with aplomb.
Her screen debut came in 1988s sleeper hit "Mystic Pizza" with Julia Roberts. Since then she's continued to seek out complex characters to which she brings an inner poise and vunerability. She will be playing Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic about the performer.
In her spare time she is actively involved in the arts and formed a theater company called "Machine Full".
She once dated actor Michael Rappaport (Beautiful Girls, Mighty Aphrodite, True Romance, Zebrahead, Higher Learning). It is rumored that after their break-up, Taylor had to put a restraining order on Rappaport because he was stalking her. Yikes!
Credits:
High Fidelity -- 2000
The Haunting -- 1999
Illtown -- 1998
Pecker -- 1998
Kicked in the Head -- 1997
Girls Town -- 1996 (also wrote screenplay)
I Shot Andy Warhol -- 1996
Ransom -- 1996
The Addiction -- 1995
Four Rooms -- 1995
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle -- 1994
Rudy -- 1993
Short Cuts -- 1993
Household Saints -- 1993
Bright Angel -- 1991
Dogfight -- 1991
Born on the Fourth of July -- 1989
Mystic Pizza -- 1988
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