Chloë Sevigny is an Academy Award®-nominated and Golden Globe®-winning actress and director who is known for her groundbreaking work across film, television and theater. Sevigny has spent her career working with innovative and revolutionary filmmakers and artists, including Lars von Trier, Jim Jarmusch, Mary Harron, David Fincher, Whit Stillman and Luca Guadagnino. She continues that work with several upcoming projects.
Sevigny can currently be seen in her second project with Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All, with Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as star-crossed young lovers surviving on the margins of society. Adapted by David Kajganich from the Camille DeAngelis novel, the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and also stars Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green and Francesca Scorsese.
Sevigny was last seen starring alongside Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan in The Girl from Plainville, for which she received rave reviews. The limited series, based on an Esquire article by Jesse Barron, is produced by Universal Studio Group’s UCP with Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus as co-showrunners.
Sevigny was also in the second season of the Natasha Lyonne hit Russian Doll for Netflix. In the first season, Sevigny made an appearance as “Leonora,” mother to Natasha’s character “Nadia” and continues with that role, albeit with a stronger presence.
Sevigny was recently seen starring in HBO’s critically acclaimed We Are Who We Are for HBO/Sky, which was created, written and directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name). The eight-episode drama was produced by Wildside and Apartment Pictures and distributed by Freemantle. Alice Braga, Jack Dylan Grazer and Kid Cudi also starred.
Opening the 2019 Cannes Film Festival was Jim Jarmusch’s third film for Focus Features and Universal Pictures International, The Dead Don’t Die. The zombie-comedy boasts a cast including Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Adam Driver, Steve Buscemi and Selena Gomez. Carter Logan and Animal Kingdom produced. Sevigny previously worked with Jarmusch on Broken Flowers and Ten Minutes Older.
Sevigny has now made the move into directing with three critically acclaimed short films. Her most recent, White Echo, premiered in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, at which Sevigny was the only American female director in competition. Sevigny’s directorial debut, Kitty, also debuted at Cannes in 2016, and her second short, Carmen, proved equally successful at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Recent past projects include Hulu’s The Act, Universal’s Queen and Slim and Lizzie, which premiered at Sundance in 2018 after being developed and produced by Sevigny. Sevigny also starred in A24’s Lean On Pete, Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits, Oren Moverman’s The Dinner and Miguel Arteta’s Beatriz at Dinner. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed series Bloodline on Netflix.
On stage, Sevigny was most recently seen in The New Group’s Downtown Race Riot written by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and directed by Scott Elliot. Sevigny was previously seen in The New Group’s productions of What the Butler Saw and Hazelwood Junior High.
Sevigny has also appeared in many celebrated indie and cult-favorite films including The Last Days of Disco, American Psycho, Gummo, Dogville, Party Monster, Broken Flowers and Love & Friendship, and has appeared in television hits such as American Horror Story, Portlandia and Big Love, for which she won a Golden Globe.
Sevigny made her film debut in the controversial Kids, directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine. For her performance in Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry, Sevigny received nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among many other critics’ awards. She makes her home in New York.
