Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny was walking through the East Village in 1992 when a fashion editor stopped her to take some photos. She had no dramatic training and no plans to step onto a film set. But her face projected something that director Harmony Korine needed for his first screenplay.

In 1995, she debuted in Kids, directed by Larry Clark. The film caused a national scandal in the United States for its raw portrayal of New York youth. Sevigny played a girl who discovers she is HIV-positive after her first sexual experience.

She embodied that New York indifference that commercial cinema didn't know how to sell.

Her career took off in an unusual way because she turned down roles in big Hollywood productions. She preferred to work with directors such as Whit Stillman on The Last Days of Disco (1998). In 1999, she earned her first Oscar nomination for Boys Don't Cry, where she played Brandon Teena's girlfriend.

The Risk of Disappearing at Cannes

The premiere of The Brown Bunny in 2003 came close to destroying her commercial reputation. That real sex scene with Vincent Gallo led her agency to drop her immediately. Critics were merciless at the French festival, and many believed her career was over.

Because of that scandal, she lost nearly all of her advertising contracts for three years. But she never apologized for taking part in a work she considered artistic. She retreated to European cinema and low-budget projects, far from the spotlight in California.

The bet on risk paid off.

Television gave her a second life with the role of Nicolette Grant on Big Love (2006). For five seasons, she played a shopaholic Mormon in a polygamous household. This role earned her a Golden Globe in 2010 and changed how the industry viewed her ability to carry long-form storytelling.

Maturing on the Small Screen

In 2022, she appeared in Bones and All, directed by Luca Guadagnino, playing an absent mother consumed by madness. It was a brief but physically violent appearance that recalled her early years in independent cinema. Sevigny has always preferred the shadows to the spotlight of leading roles.

In 2024, she played C.Z. Guest in the series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Her performance was an exercise in absolute restraint in front of the camera. That same year, she shot the second installment of the anthology Monsters for Netflix, where she played Kitty Menendez.

She took on the challenge of filming scenes of intense emotion without relying on the usual tricks of TV drama.

In 2025, her schedule includes pre-production on a new feature film, after years focused on directing short films such as Kitty (2016) and Carmen (2017). Her contract for the series about the Menendez brothers was reportedly finalized for an amount that the specialized press estimated at two million dollars per season.

In 2024, filming for this production took up much of her work schedule at the studios in Los Angeles.