Lily Rabe was born on June 29,1982 and is an American actress.
28 Facts About Lily Rabe
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Lily Rabe is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story.
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Lily Rabe has a younger brother, Michael, an actor and playwright; and an older paternal half-brother, Jason, a musician.
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Lily Rabe's father is Roman Catholic, her maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was Protestant.
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Lily Rabe was raised in Bedford, New York, but moved to Lakeville, Connecticut when she was in seventh grade, where she attended the Hotchkiss School.
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Lily Rabe was teaching ballet at a summer arts program in Connecticut when she was approached by the program's acting instructor, who asked her to perform a monologue in the final production.
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Lily Rabe read a monologue from the play Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley.
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In 2001, Lily Rabe made her screen debut opposite her mother Jill Clayburgh in the film Never Again.
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Lily Rabe made her professional stage debut, again opposite her mother, at the Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts.
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Lily Rabe starred in two one-act plays, Speaking Well of the Dead by Israel Horovitz and The Crazy Girl by Frank Pugliese, roles that enabled her to get an Equity Card.
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Lily Rabe made her Broadway debut as Annelle Dupuy-Desoto in the 2005 revival of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, directed by Jason Moore for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
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Lily Rabe had been cast in the play Sisters of the Garden, but had to drop out after being cast in Steel Magnolias.
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That year, Lily Rabe appeared in the films What Just Happened and The Toe Tactic, as well as two episodes of Medium.
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Lily Rabe next starred in The Merchant of Venice, opposite Al Pacino as Shylock, in a performance described as a "smashing break-out".
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Lily Rabe appeared again at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in a production of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, where she played Nora Helmer.
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Lily Rabe was later cast in the second season as the nun Sister Mary Eunice McKee.
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Lily Rabe was cast in the third season as a resurgent witch, Misty Day, a role written for her by co-creator Ryan Murphy.
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Lily Rabe is one of only three actors to appear in the show's first six seasons.
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In 2019, for the ninth installment of the show, titled 1984, Lily Rabe returned in the recurring role of Lavinia Richter, a distraught mother who haunts Camp Redwood, an idyllic summer retreat with a history of massacre.
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Lily Rabe appeared at the Golden Theatre in the Broadway play Seminar by Theresa Rebeck.
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Lily Rabe finished work in the Public Theater's production of As You Like It, part of the 50th Season of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theatre.
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Lily Rabe played Rosalind in the production that opened on June 11,2012 and closed on June 30,2012.
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In October 2012, it was announced that Lily Rabe would appear in We're Just Married, a film written by her father and directed by Rodrigo Garcia.
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Lily Rabe was later replaced in the films by Gwendoline Christie due to a scheduling conflict.
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On February 14, it was announced that Lily Rabe would appear in Much Ado About Nothing as part of the 2014 Shakespeare in the Park season.
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In May 2016, Lily Rabe was cast in Golden Exits directed by Alex Ross Perry.
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In December 2016, it was reported that Lily Rabe was expecting her first child with boyfriend Hamish Linklater.
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In September 2021, Lily Rabe announced her third pregnancy with Linklater.