Born on February 20, 1967 in Glencoe, Illinois, Lili Taylor is an actress best known for her role in The Haunting, State of Mind, and Six Feet Under. The daughter of a professional baby sitter and a folk artist and hardware store operator, she grew up in a Chicago suburb and graduated from New Trier High School in Witnnetka, Illinois in 1985. She then attended the Theater School of Drama at the DePaul University and the Piven Theater Workshop. She is married to author Nick Flynn since 2004, and the couple has a daughter in 2008. Previously, she had been linked to John Cusack, Matthew Broderick, and Michael Rapaport.
Taylor’s career spans years in the dustry with dozens of films since 1988 under her belt, including Dogfight, Mystic Pizza, and Rudy. Mostly, her work had been in independent films and stage, however. In the second and third seasons, she played the role of Lisa Kimmel Fisher in the HBO series Six Feet Under.
Taylor received critical acclaim for her role in 1988’s Mystic Pizza and 1989’s Say Anything. For Dogfight, meanwhile, she played an unattractive young woman. Two years later in 1993, she was in Household Saints, a film that made it to over 20 national critics’ list of best films. This was followed by the epic Los Angeles drama Short Cuts in the same year, where she shared the spotlight with Robert Downey Jr., Julianne Moore, and Tom Waits. In 1996, however, she took on a very memorable role in I Shot Andy Warhol, a very critically acclaimed performance. In 1999, she moved to mainstream with the remake of The Haunting, followed by her New York City stage debut in Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon in 2004. She plays brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Ann Bellowes in the Lifetime series State of Mind.