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Date of Birth

20 February 1967, Glencoe, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Lili Anne Taylor

Height

5' 2" (1.57 m)

Trivia

Michael Rapaport pleaded guilty to the aggravated harassment of her. He was ordered to stay away from her and undergo counseling for one year. [1998]

Graduated, with Liz Phair, from New Trier High School, same school from which Rock Hudson and Ann-Margret graduated.

Was engaged to actor Michael Imperioli

Dated actor Matthew Broderick [1994].

Owns a black pug dog named Gulliver, which she found on the side of the road in upstate New York.

Her brother-in-law is famed New York casting director Daniel Swee.

Studied acting at the famed Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois with the likes of John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Jeremy Piven, and Lara Flynn Boyle.

Grew up in suburban Illinois.

Her parents are Marie and Park Taylor, ran a hardware store.

Expecting her first child, a girl, in January 2008.

Has been in a relationship with writer Nick Flynn since 2004.

She's the fifth of six children.

Personal Quotes

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting. I would rather play someone who's fucked-up and deep than someone who's one-dimensional and invisible. I would rather drive something and be crazy than be forgotten and nothing.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Being in an ensemble is a good experience, but I don't feel like I need any more of those experiences. I love the principle, but I also feel like I want to take up more space. It's hard because it can, when you're not there every day or in every scene, be tricky to anchor down a character.

After I'm finished playing a part, it's almost like a ritual kind of thing. I've brought them to life, they've had their time. And now it's time for them to go back in...in whatever way they do. Then I go on with my life.

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

Where Are They Now

(July 2003) Will be appearing in John Guare's dark comedy, "Landscape of the Body", July 9th -20th at the Williamtown Theater Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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