Chloë Sevigny

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Chloë Sevigny
<tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>Chloe Stevens Sevigny</td></tr>
Born	November 18 1974 (age 35) Darien, Connecticut, USA
Height	5' 7" (1.70m)
Notable roles	Nicki Grant in Big Love Jenny in Kids Lana Tisdel in Boys Don't Cry

Chloë Stevens Sevigny<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001721/bio</ref> (born November 18, 1974) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Boys Don't Cry (1999), which gained Sevigny international attention and strong critical acclaim.

Sevigny is also famous for starring in a string of independent films and for being an It girl throughout the 1990s. Her first movie role was playing a teenager infected with HIV in the independent cult film Kids, as well as Gummo, The Brown Bunny and Party Monster.

1 Biography
2 Trivia
3 Personal Quotes
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Sevigny was born and raised in Darien, Connecticut, where she attended Darien High School. Her late father has distant French ancestry and her mother is Polish American.

Before she rose to fame as an actress, Sevigny was spotted on an East Village street by a fashion editor of Sassy Magazine, who was so impressed by Sevigny's style that she asked her to intern at the magazine.<ref>NetGilmse biography of Chloë Sevigny, accessed October 16, 2006</ref> This led to modeling in the magazine as well as for x-girl, the fashion label of Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. During that time, author Jay McInerney saw her around New York City, admired her fashion sense, and wrote a seven-page article about her for The New Yorker in which he dubbed her the new "it-girl."

[edit] Career

Sevigny made her film debut in Kids, which was written by independent filmmaker Harmony Korine, with whom she has been romantically involved off and on since they were both teenagers. She has also starred in two of his other films, Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy.

Sevigny is recognized from roles in American Psycho and The Last Days of Disco, but it was her 1999 Oscar nomination at age 25 for the role of Lana in Boys Don't Cry that brought her national and international attention from critics and audiences alike, many consider this to be Sevigny's breakout role.

Sevigny gained notoriety in 2003 for an unsimulated fellatio scene in The Brown Bunny with co-star and director Vincent Gallo. After the film's release, the William Morris Agency dropped her as a client, claiming the scene made her unmarketable. She quickly signed on with another agency and continues to be successful in both modeling and acting.

She played a colleague of New Republic writer Stephen Glass in the 2003 movie Shattered Glass.

In 2006, Sevigny co-stars in a new HBO television series Big Love, about a family of polygamists. She plays the conniving, shopaholic daughter of a cult leader. She also has many upcoming roles in films such as Sisters, which is set for release in late 2006, and in Catherine and Peter and Zodiac, both set for release sometime in 2007.

She is often seen as a hipster style icon for her offbeat fashion sense. She is a favorite of trendy magazines (she first graced the cover of Interview before Kids even came out), and she has modeled for a number of designers and brands, including Miu Miu, H&M, and MAC. But Sevigny is far from fond of her iconic status: “For some reason the public has embraced me as a fashion icon, and I feel like it has diminished me as an actress, or I don’t get as much recognition as an actress”, complained the star, “and that upsets me”.<ref>Chloe Sevigny – Style Icon, accessed October 16, 2006</ref>

[edit] Personal life

Sevigny currently lives in New York City, and is a spokesperson for the MAC Cosmetics Viva Glam campaign.

[edit] Trivia

Her brother is New York-based DJ Paul Sevigny.
Moved to Brooklyn at age 18, into her own apartment.
Her father passed away in 1995 or 1996.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001721/bio</ref>

[edit] Personal Quotes

"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
"I've always made films that are sort of avant-garde-y or whatever you call it."
"I knew people would not understand it. It's a shame people write so many things when they haven't seen it. When you see the film, it makes more sense. It's an art film. It should be playing in museums. It's like an Andy Warhol movie." On the oral sex scene in The Brown Bunny.
"I've questioned issues of gender and sexuality since I was a teenager, and I did some experimenting."[1]