Lili Taylor - Host

Lili Taylor has achieved remarkable success, recognition and praise for her wide range and talent on film, stage, and television. Known for her work in films like MYSTIC PIZZA and I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, the hit HBO series SIX FEET UNDER and from her Obie winning performance in AUNT DAN & LEMON, she is an accomplished actress in all mediums.

Taylor can be seen starring in the television series STATE OF MIND, on Lifetime. She plays a psychologist who is faced with her own problems. The show is from the creators of NIP/TUCK and THE CLOSER and marks a new step for Lifetime Television.

In film, Taylor can next be seen in Dimension’s QUEBEC with John C. Reilly, Seann William Scott, Jenna Fischer and Gil Bellows. Also in STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING with Frank Langella and her SIX FEET UNDER co-star, Lauren Ambrose. She plays Langella’s daughter, who longs to become pregnant and who’s relationship with her father is challenged by the entrance of an ambitious grad student into their lives and then in Vincent Perez’s film THE SECRET in which she stars with David Duchovny.

Last year, she starred in IFC’s FACTOTUM opposite Matt Dillon, for which she was awarded the Best Actress award at the Copenhagen Film Festival. The film, based on the acerbic novel by Charles Bukowski, explored the difficulties of a couple sharing a tumultuous relationship. Taylor also appeared in Picturehouse’s THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE directed by Mary Harron.

Other credits include A SLIPPING DOWN LIFE with Guy Pearce, John Sayles’ CASA DE LOS BABYS, HBO Films’ LIVE FROM BAGHDAD for director Mick Jackson opposite Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter, THE HAUNTING with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta–Jones, and Owen Wilson, HIGH FIDELITY with John Cusack, and PECKER, directed by John Waters and co-starring Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci.

Taylor’s other films include two Robert Altman films, SHORT CUTS and READY TO WEAR, MYSTIC PIZZA, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, DOGFIGHT, MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, SAY ANYTHING, ARIZONA DREAM, and Abel Ferrara’s THE ADDICTION, opposite Annabella Sciorra and Christopher Walken.

Other recent television appearances include ANNE FRANK on ABC, the Dick Wolf/NBC series DEADLINE, and special guest appearances on MAD ABOUT YOU.

Taylor received an Emmy nomination and a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for her role as “Lisa” in SIX FEET UNDER. She also received an Emmy nomination for her guest-starring role on Fox’s THE X-FILES. She received a Blockbuster award for Best Supporting Actress in RANSOM with Mel Gibson. Other awards and nominations include the first ever “Special Grand Jury Prize for Acting” at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. This award recognized her amazing work in GIRLS TOWN, COLD FEVER and Mary Harron’s seminal film I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, in which she gave an explosive performance as Valerie Solanas. Taylor also received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in HOUSEHOLD SAINTS. She was honored with a retrospective of her work at the prestigious Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis in February 2006 and the following summer, she was presented with the first-ever Achievement in Acting at the Provincetown Film Festival.

Lili Taylor made her Broadway debut in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS. She was a member of the Naked Angels before forming her own theatre company, Machine Full, where she made her directorial debut with HALCYON DAYS. She earned rave reviews and a Drama Desk Award nomination for her incendiary performance Off-Broadway in THE DEAD EYE BOY and also starred in LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Taylor made her way back to the stage for the Signature Theater’s production of LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY, directed by Michael Greif, where she again played Betty, a woman in 1970’s Greenwich Village who is accused of her son’s murder. The New York Times called Betty “portrayed by the peerless Taylor…Taylor’s Betty is the ideal incarnation of this feisty, lonely spirit.” Other theatrical appearances include her starring role in AVEN’U BOYS at the American Place Theatre. She recently starred Off-Broadway in Scott Elliot’s critically acclaimed production of Wallace Shawn’s AUNT DAN & LEMON, for which she was awarded both an Obie Award and a Drama League Award.