Sevigny has suffered from scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, since childhood.In her senior year of high school Chloe shaved her head. "I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism." Height: 5'7" Lindsay Lohan said that she was really interested into Chloe's designs. In Feb 2004, became a spokeperson for the MAC Cosmetics Viva Glam campaign. Worked as a model for H & M. Her brother Paul Sevigny is a well-known New York City DJ. Moved to Brooklyn when she was 18. Was an intern for Sassy magazine in 1993.
Of French and Polish descent, Chloe Sevigny was born on November 18, 1974, in Springfield, Massachusetts, but raised in Darien, Connecticut, by her accountant-turned-interior-painter father, and her mother Janine Sevigny. In addition to attending summer school in a boarding school near Glion, Switzerland, she was educated at the Thorp High School in Boston, Massachusetts.
During her high school years, Chloe spent a lot of her weekend time watching skateboarders in Washington Square Park, a hangout for many disobedient teenagers and creative types. It was there that she later met the young aspiring director Harmony Korine. Chloe finally moved to New York permanently at age 18, the same year she also began working as an intern at the teen magazine Sassy after being spotted by the magazine’s fashion editor. This led to several modeling jobs, including gigs with the chic design house Miu Miu, Sassy and the urban clothing line created by Sonic Youth front woman Kim Gordon, called X-Girl, as well as appearances in music videos for bands such as Sonic Youth and the Lemonheads.
18-year-old Chloe Sevigny made her way to New York City and joined the group of skater kids who flocked in Washington Square Park. While on the street, she was discovered by a fashion editor for Sassy magazine who soon landed the young girl a job as a magazine intern, which eventually led to a number of modeling gigs. It was also in Washington Square Park that Sevigny first encountered young screenwriter and aspiring director Harmony Korine. The couple’s friendship resulted in her being cast in the starring role Jennie in the Korine-scripted movie Kids (1995). Directed by Larry Clark, Sevigny’s onscreen debut as a virginal teen who contracts HIV from her first sexual encounter won the new performer praise. Sevigny also became a somewhat familiar face among the hip New York City subculture members which inspired novelist Jay McInerney to write a seven page feature article in The New Yorker where he hailed Sevigny the new “it girl.”
After her much-talked-about performance in Kids, Sevigney landed the supporting role of Debbie, the intelligent young assistant and love interest of Steve Buscemi’s ice cream man in Buscemi’s directorial debut Trees Lounge (1996). The following years, she was seen as an albino girl in Korine’s directorial debut Gummo, a drama film detailing the story about Midwestern youngsters who amuse themselves killing cats, before being featured as Odette in German director Volker Schlondorff’s big budget film Palmetto (1998), starring Woody Harrelson and Elisabeth Shue. Unfortunately, the movie was unsatisfactory for both the actress and audiences. Sevigny followed the disappointing projects with a notable performance as Alice Kinnon, a New Hampshire College graduate making her way in NYC in the early 1980s, in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco (1998). Also in 1998, Sevigney debuted on Off-Broadway with “Hazelwood Jr. High,” a real-life drama of a cruel teenage murder in Rob Urbinati’s uneven play.
By 1999, Sevigny had emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed young Hollywood actresses with a trio of big screen releases. She was first cast as Lana Tisdal, the love interest of Hillary Swank’s Brandon, in Kimberly Peirce’s significant feature Boys Don’t Cry (1999), an independent drama based on the true story of a young woman who lived as a man named Teena Brandon. Delivering an outstanding acting job, Sevigny took home several awards like a
Chicago Film Critics Association, a Golden Satellite, a Las Vegas Film Critics Society, an Independent Spirit, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association, a Boston Society of Film Critics and a National Society of Film Critics for Best Supporting Actress.
Additionally, her well-received performance earned Sevigny an Oscar, a Screen Actors Guild and a Golden Globe nomination.
The Academy Award nominee then perfectly played the lead role of Pearl, a pregnant teen who has a sexual relationship with her schizophrenic brother (Ewen Bremner) in Korine’s ruthless entry into the experimental Dogma ‘95 genre Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) before giving an impressive portrayal of a ill-prepared working mother, Carole Mackessy, in the touching drama A Map of the World (1999) for director Scott Elliott. The film starred Sigourney Weaver and Dara Perlmutter.
After appearing in the off-Broadway production of “What the Butler Saw” (2000), Sevigny was back on the wide-screen with the bit part of Jean in Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ controversially brutal crime novel American Psycho (2000, starring Christian Bale and Justin Theroux). That same year, she made her TV movie debut with the lesbian-themed HBO movie If These Walls Could Talk 2, starring opposite Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, Vanessa Redgrave and Michelle Williams. 2002 and 2003 saw roles in a short film Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002), the French techno thriller Demonlover (2002, with Connie Nielsen and Gina Gershon), the drama Party Monster (2003, alongside Macauley Culkin and Seth Green), Death of a Dynasty (2003), Lars Von Trier’s Dogville (2003, opposite Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Paul Bettany and Lauren Bacall), the Vincent Gallo’s controversial film The Brown Bunny (2003) and Shattered Glass (2003, with Hayden Christensen).
In addition to playing Laurel, the former college friend of a neurotic self-destructive woman (Radha Mitchell) in the tragic portion of writer-director Woody Allen’s dual-structured Melinda and Melinda (2004), Sevigney made a guest appearance as a lesbian real-estate speculator in an episode of the popular TV series “Will & Grace” in 2004. Sevigny was even busier in 2005 with four movie projects under her belt. Following Manderlay (2005), she appeared in the adventure film Broken Flowers (2005), which starred Bill Murray and Julie Delpy, played the young novice nun Clara in 3 Needles (2005) and was cast as a nurse opposite Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening, in director Lars von Trier’s Mrs. Harris (2005). Sevigny can also be seen on the little screen as part of the cast in the Tom Hanks’ HBO production of Big Love (2006),which is going into its 2nd season. In the next coming months, she appears opposite Jake Gyllenhall as his girlfriend in the thriller Zodiac (2006) and the lead in Sisters, a Brian DePalma remake and the films Lying and Catherine and Peter.
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