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Chicago native Lili Taylor recently starred in The Haunting, opposite Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson and Catherine Zeta-Jones, for which she was nominated for a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is currently in production on Gaudi Afternoon starring opposite Juliette Lewis, and will soon star in The Shooting Gallery's Julie Johnson, directed by Bob Gosse (Niagra, Niagra). Taylor also starred in John Waters' Pecker and in Stanley Tucci's The Impostors. In addition to the big screen, Taylor appeared as a recurring character on Mad About You, and was nominated for a 1998 Emmy for her guest starring role on The X-Files. Talylor also starred in A Slipping Down Life which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

Taylor was honored with a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress in Ron Howard's Ransom, opposite Mel Gibson, Rene Russo and Gary Sinise. In 1995, the Sundance Film Festival awarded Lili Taylor the first ever Special Grand Jury Prize for Acting for her work in Girls Town, Cold Fever and I Shot Andy Warhol. Taylor was also honored with an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress in Household Saints and co-starred in Short Cuts, which received a Golden Globe for Best Ensemble Acting.

Taylor made her film debut in the sleeper hit Mystic Pizza. The following year she appeared in Say Anything with John Cusack. Her other films include Kicked in the Head, Illtown, Bright Angel, Born on the Fourth of July, Dogfight, and Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle.

Taylor made her Broadway debut at The Roundabout Theater in Chekov's Three Sisters. She was a member of the Naked Angels before forming her own theater company, Machine Full, where she made her directorial debut in the Machine Full production of Tom Gilroy's Halcion Days. Taylor has been involved in every facet of theater from her participation in the Cultural Exchange Program which took her to Czechoslovakia, to the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, to her starring role in the critically acclaimed Aven U Boys at the American Place Theater.