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 ...
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Complete Filmography

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
as Mags Flanagan
Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games for the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter...

The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Emily Souder (voice)
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous ...

Fear Street: Prom Queen
2025
as VP Dolores Brekenridge
Who will be voted queen at Shadyside High's 1988 prom? For underdog Lori, competition is cutthroat even before someone starts killing off the candidat...

The Many Miracles of Household Saints
2024
as Self
In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many M...

There There
2022
A series of hilarious, romantic, fateful encounters holds a mirror up to life in a distinctly twisted, modern world.

The Winter House
2021
as Eileen
Eileen is grieving. She needs to get away. She rents a house in a remote corner of New Hampshire, in the dead of winter, where no one is likely to bot...

The Evening Hour
2021
as Ruby Freeman
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to...

Paper Spiders
2021
as Dawn
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait...

Eli
2019
as Dr. Isabella Horn
A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatur...

The Nun
2018
as Carolyn Perron
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romani...

Talking with the Vampires
2018
Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.

Leatherface
2017
as Verna Sawyer
A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equall...

To the Bone
2017
as Judy
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

The Memory of Fish
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Dick Goin and his family have been fed by the Elwha River's salmon since migrating to Washington's Olympic Peninsula during the Dust Bowl. Dick has ne...
After Adderall
2016
as Lili
In 2010 James Franco optioned the rights to Stephen Elliott’s memoir, The Adderall Diaries. In 2015 The Adderall Diaries starring James Franco and Ed ...

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015
as Mary Cooper
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. The...

A Woman Like Me
2015
as Anna Seashell
A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with...

Take Care
2014
Thanks
When a car crash leaves Frannie immobilized, she is brushed off by everyone she can count on. With nowhere else to turn and desperate for help, she tu...

Blood Ties
2013
as Marie
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

The Conjuring
2013
as Carolyn Perron
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful ...

Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

The Cold Lands
2013
as Nicole
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drif...

Future Weather
2012
as Ms. Markovi
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcohol...

The Courier
2012
as Mrs. Capo
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.

Being Flynn
2012
as Joy
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...

About Cherry
2012
as Phyllis
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addict...

Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both we...

The Pier
2011
as Grace Ross
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arr...

Brooklyn's Finest
2010
as Angela Procida
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty...

Public Enemies
2009
as Sheriff Lillian Holley
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side o...

The Promotion
2008
as Lori Wehlner
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.

Starting Out in the Evening
2007
as Ariel Schiller
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the poi...

The Secret
2007
as Hannah Marris
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horr...
9-11/9-11
2007
as Julia
In memory of both September 11 events, we present Mel Chin's animated short film in its entirety. SEPTEMBER 11, 1973 - SANTIAGO. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - ...

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006
as Self
An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles and Wallace Shawn -- lend their voic...

Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
2005
as Herself
A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.

The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as Paula Klaw
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph...

Factotum
2005
as Jan
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live ...

Casa de los Babys
2003
as Leslie
A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of e...

Penguins Behind Bars
2003
as Doris Fairfeather
Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th 200...

Live from Baghdad
2002
as Judy Parker
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...

The Weather Underground
2002
as Narrator (voice)
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Gaudi Afternoon
2001
as Ben
Barcelona hasn’t turned out to be the romantic dreamland fledgling translator Cassandra thought it would be. But just when she’s about to return to Am...

Julie Johnson
2001
as Julie Johnson
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Jul...

High Fidelity
2000
as Sarah Kendrew
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top...

The Haunting
1999
as Nell
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...

A Slipping Down Life
1999
as Evie Decker
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.

The Impostors
1998
as Lily 'Lil'
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.

Pecker
1998
as Rorey Wheeler
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful ch...

All Revved Up
1998
as Rachel
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager ...

Letters Not About Love
1998
as Lyn Hejinian (voice)
Two contemporary poets, one from America (Lyn Hejinian), the other from Russia (Arkadii Dragomoshchenko) are asked to begin a correspondence based on ...

Kicked in the Head
1997
as Happy
When Redmon finds himself out of home and job, his life becomes a series of unpredictable escapades - from dodging gunfire after his uncle makes him d...

Subway Stories
1997
as Belinda (segment "The Listeners")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Ransom
1996
as Maris
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
as Woman in Speakeasy
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for...

Girls Town
1996
as Patti
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.

Girls Town
1996
Writer
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.

Illtown
1996
as Micky
Two young lovers are torn between their part-time criminal activity and the enticement of family and home.

I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Valerie Jean Solanas
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...

Things I Never Told You
1996
as Ann
Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't ...

Four Rooms
1995
as Raven
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t...

The Addiction
1995
as Kathleen Conklin
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Cold Fever
1995
as Jill
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual wh...

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Fiona Ulrich
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Edna Ferber
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...
Touch Base
1994
as Darcy Winningham
A woman, concerned about her own job, and stuck in her office cubicle with little but a phone and a computer, and a presentation to do, gets increasin...

Short Cuts
1993
as Honey Bush
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Rudy
1993
as Sherry
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...

Household Saints
1993
as Teresa Santangelo
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

Watch It
1993
as Brenda
Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's...

Arizona Dream
1993
as Grace Stalker
An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags ...

Dogfight
1991
as Rose Fenny
In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in ...

Bright Angel
1990
as Lucy
In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pret...

Sensibility and Sense
1990
as Younger Marianne
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Jamie Wilson
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

Say Anything...
1989
as Corey Flood
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...

Mystic Pizza
1988
as JoJo
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

She's Having a Baby
1988
as Girl at Medical Lab
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

Night of Courage
1987
as Marina
A young man is beaten to death. Now it's believed that he sought out sanctuary in the house of a man (Hughes), and that the man threw him out. And it'...

Anima
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An impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip to preserve his failing consciousness via an experimen...