64 Facts About Chloe Sevigny

Chloe Stevens Sevigny is an American actress, model, filmmaker and fashion designer.

Chloe Sevigny has a career in fashion design concurrent with her acting work.

Chloe Sevigny rose to prominence with her portrayal of Lana Tisdel in the drama film Boys Don't Cry, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress.

From 2006 to 2011, Chloe Sevigny portrayed Nicolette Grant on the HBO series Big Love, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2010.

Chloe Sevigny appeared in mainstream films such as David Fincher's Zodiac, and the biopic Mr Nice.

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Chloe Sevigny made her directorial debut in 2016 with the short film Kitty, followed by a second short film titled Carmen.

Chloe Sevigny had several supporting parts in 2017 before obtaining a lead role portraying Lizzie Borden in the independent thriller Lizzie, followed by another lead role in Jim Jarmusch's horror comedy The Dead Don't Die.

Chloe Stevens Sevigny was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on November 18,1974, the second child of Janine and Harold David Sevigny.

Chloe Sevigny's mother is Polish-American, and her father was of French-Canadian heritage.

Chloe Sevigny often spent summers attending theater camp, with leading roles in plays run by the YMCA.

Chloe Sevigny attended Darien High School, where she was a member of the Alternative Learning Program.

Chloe Sevigny described herself as a "loner" and a "depressed teenager" whose only extracurricular activities were occasionally skateboarding with her older brother and sewing her own clothes.

Chloe Sevigny has said that her father was aware of her experimentation, and even told her that it was okay, but that she had "to stop if she had bad trips".

In 1993, at age 19, Chloe Sevigny relocated from her Connecticut hometown to an apartment in Brooklyn, and worked as a seamstress.

Chloe Sevigny encountered screenwriter and aspiring director Harmony Korine in Washington Square Park during her senior year of high school in 1993.

Chloe Sevigny played a New York teenager who discovers she is HIV positive.

Just two days before production began, the leading role went to Chloe Sevigny, who was 19 at the time and had no professional acting experience.

Chloe Sevigny then gave her first audition ever, but ultimately decided to turn down the part; she would later work with Harron on American Psycho.

High, which tells the true story of the 1992 murder of Shanda Sharer; Chloe Sevigny played 17-year-old Laurie Tackett, one of four girls responsible for torturing and murdering 12-year-old Sharer.

Chloe Sevigny stated she was so emotionally disturbed after playing the role that she began attending Mass again.

Chloe Sevigny was cast in the independent drama Boys Don't Cry after director Kimberly Peirce saw her performance in The Last Days of Disco.

Chloe Sevigny played Lana Tisdel, a young woman who fell in love with Teena, initially unaware of the fact that he was a transgender man and continued the relationship after learning about his gender identity.

The role earned Chloe Sevigny supporting actress nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Chloe Sevigny won an Independent Spirit Award, a Satellite Award, and a Sierra Award for her performance.

Chloe Sevigny had a small part in the drama film A Map of the World, which starred Sigourney Weaver.

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In 2000, Chloe Sevigny played a supporting role in Mary Harron's American Psycho, based on the controversial 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Chloe Sevigny portrayed the office assistant of the main character Patrick Bateman, a 1980s Manhattan yuppie-turned-serial killer.

Chloe Sevigny appeared as a lesbian in the Emmy Award-winning television film If These Walls Could Talk 2, the sequel to the HBO television drama-film If These Walls Could Talk.

Chloe Sevigny described shooting the film as "strange", in the sense that Assayas hardly spoke to her during the filming, which she said was difficult because of the lack of "input".

Around 2002, Chloe Sevigny began collaborating with friend Tara Subkoff for the Imitation of Christ fashion label and conceptual art project, with their first collection being released in 2003.

Chloe Sevigny served as the creative director for the line, which was referred to as being "more about performance art and cultural theory than clothes".

In film, Chloe Sevigny had a role in Lars von Trier's parable Dogville, playing one of the various residents of a small mountain town, alongside Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, and Paul Bettany.

Chloe Sevigny re-united with former Boys Don't Cry star Peter Sarsgaard for the biographical film Shattered Glass, alongside Hayden Christensen, about the career of Stephen Glass, a journalist whose reputation is destroyed when his widespread journalistic fraud is exposed.

In 2003, Chloe Sevigny took on the lead female role in the art house film The Brown Bunny, which details a lonely traveling motorcycle racer reminiscing about his former lover.

The film achieved notoriety for a scene which involves Chloe Sevigny performing fellatio on star and director Vincent Gallo.

Chloe Sevigny had a major supporting role in Woody Allen's two-sided tragicomedy Melinda and Melinda.

Chloe Sevigny played one of the several lovers of New York doctor Herman Tarnower in the HBO television film Mrs Harris alongside Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley.

In 3 Needles, an anthology film about AIDS in various parts of the world, Chloe Sevigny had a major role as a Catholic nun visiting Africa.

Chloe Sevigny had a starring role in Douglas Buck's 2006 remake of the Brian De Palma horror film Sisters, playing a journalist who witnesses a murder.

In 2006, Chloe Sevigny began a five-season run in the HBO television series Big Love, about a family of fundamentalist Mormon polygamists.

Chloe Sevigny played Nicolette Grant, the conniving, shopaholic daughter of a cult leader and second wife to a polygamist husband, played by Bill Paxton.

Chloe Sevigny appeared in her first big-budget production, playing Robert Graysmith's wife Melanie in David Fincher's Zodiac, based on the Zodiac Killer criminal case.

In October 2007, the French fashion house Chloe announced that Sevigny would be one of the spokesmodels for its new fragrance.

Chloe Sevigny released a clothing collection for Opening Ceremony in the fall of 2009.

Chloe Sevigny returned to films in 2009, starring in the independent psychological thriller The Killing Room, and Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, a crime horror film based on murderer Mark Yavorsky, produced by David Lynch.

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Club, Chloe Sevigny was asked if she felt that the show's message was that polygamy was "wrong".

Chloe Sevigny had a voice part in the documentary film Beautiful Darling, narrating the life of Warhol superstar Candy Darling through Darling's diaries and personal letters.

Chloe Sevigny appeared in a supporting role as a journalist in Lovelace, a biographical film about pornographic film actress Linda Lovelace.

Chloe Sevigny had roles in television, appearing as a satellite character in the third season of the television sketch comedy show Portlandia, and having a 5-episode guest role on the comedy series The Mindy Project, in which she portrayed the ex-wife of the titular Mindy's love interest.

In March 2015, it was announced Chloe Sevigny would be returning to American Horror Story for its fifth season, Hotel, as a main cast member.

In early 2016, Chloe Sevigny appeared in the Canadian horror film Antibirth opposite Natasha Lyonne, which follows a small-town woman who becomes pregnant through unknown circumstances.

In 2016 and 2017, respectively, Chloe Sevigny reprised her role in Bloodline, becoming a main cast member in the third and final season.

Chloe Sevigny made her directorial debut in 2016 with the short film Kitty, which she adapted from Paul Bowles' 1980 short story.

In late 2016, Chloe Sevigny directed her second short film, Carmen, which was shot on location in Portland, Oregon.

Chloe Sevigny co-starred as a horse jockey in the drama Lean on Pete, based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, ; in the ensemble drama Golden Exits; the comedy-drama Beatriz at Dinner, about a Latina massage therapist who is invited to a dinner held by her wealthy employers; the drama The Dinner, concerning a dinner between two couples recounting their children's involvement in a murder; and The Snowman, where she played the twin sisters, one of whom was killed by a serial killer.

Chloe Sevigny starred as Lizzie Borden in Lizzie, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, co-starring with Kristen Stewart.

Chloe Sevigny had first expressed interest in developing and starring in a miniseries based on Borden in 2011.

In 2019, Chloe Sevigny appeared in the Netflix show Russian Doll, portraying the mother of the lead character.

In 2020, Chloe Sevigny starred in We Are Who We Are, a limited series directed by Luca Guadagnino, which premiered in September 2020 on HBO.

Chloe Sevigny has long been considered a fashion icon and regularly appears alternately on both best and worst-dressed lists.

Chloe Sevigny has since released several clothing lines designed by herself, both solo and in collaboration, and has earned a title as a modern fashion icon.

Chloe Sevigny has been outspoken in her favoritism of vintage clothing over designer pieces: "I still prefer to buy vintage over spending it all on one designer", she told The Times.

Chloe Sevigny endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 US presidential election and again in the 2020 election.

Chloe Sevigny began dating Croatian art gallery director Sinisa Mackovic in 2018.