Chloë Stevens Sevigny (born November 18, 1974 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actress, best known as Nicolette on Big Love and Mia on Hit & Miss. Her last name is pronounced "Sevenny."
Patrial filmography:
- Kids (1995) as Jennie
- Trees Lounge (1996) as Debbie
- Gummo (1997) as Dot
- The Last Days of Disco (1998) as Alice Kinnon
- Boys Don't Cry (1999) as Lana Tisdel (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress)
- Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) as Pearl
- American Psycho (2000) as Jean
- Party Monster (2003) as Gitsie
- Dogville (2003) as Liz Henson
- The Brown Bunny (2003) as Daisy
- Shattered Glass (2003) as Caitlin Avey
- Broken Flowers (2005) as Carmen's assistant
- Zodiac (2007) as Melanie
- The Killing Room (2009) as Emily Reilly
- American Horror Story (2012-13, 2015-16)
- American Horror Story: Asylum as Shelley
- American Horror Story: Hotel as Alex Lowe
- Lovelace (2013) as Rebecca
- Lean on Pete (2017) as Bonnie
- The Snowman (2017) as Sylvia Ottersen / Ane Pedersen
- Comrade Detective (2017) (English dub) as Sonya Baciu
- Lizzie (2018) as Lizzie Borden
- The Dead Don't Die (2019) as Minerva Morrison
- The Act (2019) as Mel Hutches
- Queen & Slim (2019) as Mrs. Shepherd
- Russian Doll (2019-22) as Lanora Vulvokov
- We Are Who We Are (2020) as Sarah Wilson
- Bones & All (2022) as Janelle Yearly
- The Girl From Plainville (2022) as Lynn Roy
- Poker Face (2023) as Ruby Ruin
- Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (2024) as C.Z. Guest
Related Tropes
- Bifauxnen: She often plays this kind of role.
- Dawson Casting: One of few actresses to frequently be cast in romantic roles opposite actors younger than her.
- Doing It for the Art: Sevigny said that the only film she did for the money was If These Walls Could Talk 2. She declined a $500,000 offer to play a supporting role in Legally Blonde.
- Money, Dear Boy: On her motivation for playing a cross-dressing Butch Lesbian in If These Walls Could Talk 2: "... Yeah, I did that job. For money. I was paying my mom's mortgage. I've still never seen that movie. People say it's really good. We all gotta make a living."
- Older Than They Look: In Kids, she was able to convincingly play a character who was 13 years old at most, while she herself was 20.
- Statuesque Stunner: She is 5'8" and a style icon.