Biography
Lily Rabe (born June 29, 1982) is an American actress. She is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story (2011–2021). For her performance as Portia in the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film credits include What Just Happened (2008), All Good Things (2010), Pawn Sacrifice(2014), Miss Stevens (2016), Golden Exits (2017), Vice (2018), Fractured (2019), and Th...
Known For
Complete Filmography
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
2025
An imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them.
The Great Lillian Hall
2024
as Margaret Tanner
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in the rehearsals her confidence is chal...
Downtown Owl
2023
as Julia Rabia
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitc...
Downtown Owl
2023
Producer, Director
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitc...
The Tender Bar
2021
as Dorothy Maguire
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of q...
Fractured
2019
as Joanne Monroe
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to ...
Finding Steve McQueen
2019
as Sharon Price
In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the bigg...
SGT. Will Gardner
2019
as Mary-Anne Mackey
A troubled Iraq War veteran struggling to reintegrate into society sets out on a cross-country journey with the hope of reuniting with his young son.
Vice
2018
as Liz Cheney
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to poli...
Golden Exits
2018
as Sam
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2017
as Helena
A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy...
The Wizard of Lies
2017
as Catherine Hooper
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wak...
A Bad Feeling
2017
as Karen
The day after suffering a miscarriage, a young couple attend their local comic con.
Miss Stevens
2016
as Rachel Stevens
Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on high school English teacher Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students — Billy, Margot an...
You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2016
A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.
The Veil
2016
as Sarah Hope
30 years ago, when members of a religious cult known as Heaven's Veil take their own lives. The truth behind what really happened remains buried deep ...
Pawn Sacrifice
2015
as Joan Fischer
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Aftermath
2013
as Samantha
A dark comedy about one man's overreaction! Roma's (Anthony Michael Hall) perfect life unravels when his foreman goes missing and he chooses to fire t...
Redemption Trail
2013
as Anna
Two powerful, yet deeply troubled women -- refugees from political and personal trauma -- flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Bla...
Letters from the Big Man
2011
as Sarah
Sarah Smith, an artist and government hydrologist, sets out on a post-fire stream survey in a remote part of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southwestern...
All Good Things
2010
as Deborah Lehrman
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...
Weakness
2010
as Katharine Browne
About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
The Toe Tactic
2009
as Mona Peek
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office ass...
What Just Happened
2008
as Dwan
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete...
No Reservations
2007
as Bernadette
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she beco...
A Crime
2006
as Sophie
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit,...
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as Art History Student
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...
Never Again
2001
as Tess
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
We're Just Married
N/A
A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.
Capsized
N/A
Nicole's discovery of an eviction notice shatters her family's houseboat vacation, forcing them to confront their patriarch's troubles, lost homes, an...
We're Just Married
N/A
Producer
A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.