Lily Rabe, an accomplished American actress, has received praise for her remarkable performance in the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story, which she participated in from 2011 to 2021.
She was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying Portia in the Broadway version of The Merchant of Venice.
Rabe’s filmography includes appearances in What Just Happened, All Good Things, Pawn Sacrifice, Miss Stevens, Golden Exits, Vice, Fractured, and The Tender Bar. She has also appeared in TV shows such as The Whispers, The Undoing, The Underground Railroad, and The First Lady.
Rabe began acting in 2001 when she co-starred in the film Never Again with her mother, Jill Clayburgh. She later featured in Israel Horovitz’s Speaking Well of the Dead and Frank Pugliese’s The Crazy Girl, two one-act plays that helped her obtain an Equity Card.
She was in the cast of Proof by David Auburn in 2003 and appeared in the film Mona Lisa Smile.
Rabe traveled to New York after graduating and featured in Deirdre O’Connor’s one-act play White Jesus, as part of the Naked Angels Theater Company’s The Democracy Project series of plays.
Lily Rabe Parents: Meet David Rabe
American playwright and screenwriter David William Rabe is best known for his highly praised plays In the Boom Boom Room, Streamers, and Hurlyburly in addition to his Tony Award-winning play Sticks and Bones.
Rabe was born in 1940 to an Irish and German-speaking household in Dubuque, Iowa. He was raised in a Catholic family and later served in a medical unit during the Vietnam War. Following his service, Rabe enrolled at Villanova University and graduated with an M.A. in writing.
He started composing Sticks and Bones, a play that portrays the evil side of the seemingly flawless Nelson family, whose names are based on characters in the hit TV series Ozzie and Harriet, while in school. David, the son left blind and resentful by his wartime experiences, returns to the play’s center.
Lily Rabe Parents: Meet Jill Clayburgh
American actress Jill Clayburgh was successful in theater, television, and movies. She rose to fame for her performance in the comedy-drama An Unmarried Woman (1978), which earned her the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival and a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar.
For her roles in various movies, she garnered four Golden Globe nominations and another Oscar nomination for Starting Over (1979).
Having a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Clayburgh was born in New York City. Her father was a manufacturing executive, while her mother was an actress and a production secretary.
Her brother is a scenic designer, and her grandmother was a well-known opera and concert vocalist. As a student, Clayburgh started her acting career in summer stock, and she eventually joined Boston’s Charles Street Repertory Theater.
She resided in New York City with fellow aspiring actor Al Pacino for five years after meeting him while working on the play America, Hurrah.