Lily Rabe
Lily Rabe
Lily Rabeis an American actress. She is well known for playing Portia in the Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Rabe is also known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology series American Horror Story, and her lead role as Claire Bennigan on the ABC science fiction series The Whispers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 June 1982
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.
I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.
Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.
All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.
I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.