Lily Rabe Net Worth

What Is Lily Rabe's Net Worth?

Lily Rabe is an American actress, producer, and director who has a net worth of $4 million. Lily Rabe is known for roles such as Nora Montgomery on "American Horror Story: Murder House" (2011), Sister Mary Eunice McKee on "American Horror Story: Asylum" (2012–2013), Misty Day on "American Horror Story: Coven" (2013–2014), Claire Bennigan on "The Whispers" (2015), Shelby Miller on "American Horror Story: Roanoke" (2016), and Emma Hall on "Tell Me Your Secrets" (2021). Rabe has more than 40 acting credits to her name, including the films "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003), "No Reservations" (2007), "All Good Things" (2010), "Miss Stevens" (2016), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2017), and "Vice" (2018), the miniseries "The Undoing" (2020) and "Love & Death" (2023), and the television series "The First Lady" (2022), "Shrinking" (2023–2024), and "Presumed Innocent" (2024). She has performed in Broadway productions of "Steel Magnolias" (2005), "Heartbreak House" (2006), "The American Plan" (2009), "The Merchant of Venice" (2010–2011), and "Seminar" (2011–2012), earning a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "The Merchant of Venice." Lily also co-directed and produced the 2023 film "Downtown Owl," and she served as an executive producer on the 2019 film "Sister Aimee."

Early Life

Lily Rabe was born on June 29, 1982, in New York City. Her mother was actress Jill Clayburgh, and her father is playwright David Rabe. Clayburgh passed away in 2010 after a two-decade battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Lily's younger brother, Michael, is a playwright and actor, and her older paternal half-brother, Jason, is a musician. Rabe's father is Roman Catholic, and her maternal grandmother and grandfather were Protestant and Jewish, respectively. Lily grew up in Bedford, New York, then she moved to Lakeville, Connecticut, as a seventh-grader. There, she attended Hotchkiss School. Rabe spent ten years studying dance, and when she was teaching ballet at a Connecticut summer arts program, the acting instructor asked her to perform a monologue in the program's final production. Lily chose a monologue from the Beth Henley play "Crimes of the Heart," and she later stated, "It was that moment, performing that monologue, that made me think, 'Maybe this is what I wanna do.'" Rabe studied acting at Northwestern University in Illinois, earning her degree in 2004.

Career

Rabe made her onscreen debut in the 2001 film "Never Again" alongside her mother, Jill Clayburgh. The two later co-starred in Lily's professional stage debut at Massachusetts' Gloucester Stage Company, where Rabe appeared in two one-act plays: Israel Horovitz's "Speaking Well of the Dead" and Frank Pugliese's "The Crazy Girl." Next, she co-starred with Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the 2003 drama "Mona Lisa Smile" and appeared in the films "A Crime" (2006), "No Reservations" (2007), "What Just Happened" (2008), and "The Toe Tactic" (2008). Lily also guest-starred on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2005), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2006), "Nip/Tuck" (2008), and "Medium" (2008). In 2005, she appeared in her first Broadway play, "Steel Magnolias," which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2010, Rabe co-starred with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in the film "All Good Things," and she followed it with "Letters from the Big Man" (2011), "Redemption Trail" (2012), "Aftermath" (2013), "Pawn Sacrifice" (2014), "The Veil" (2016), "Miss Stevens" (2016), "Golden Exits" (2017), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2017), "Sgt. Will Gardner" (2019), "Finding Steve McQueen" (2019), and "Fractured" (2019). She also portrayed Liz Cheney in the 2018 film "Vice," which received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

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Lily guest-starred on "Saving Grace" and "Law & Order" in 2010, and from 2011 to 2015, she had a recurring role as Petra Moritz on the CBS series "The Good Wife." In 2011, she played Nora Montgomery on Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series "American Horror Story: Murder House." She would go on to portray Sister Mary Eunice McKee on "American Horror Story: Asylum" (2012–2013) and "American Horror Story: Freak Show" (2014), Misty Day on "American Horror Story: Coven" (2013–2014) and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" (2018), Aileen Wuornos on "American Horror Story: Hotel" (2015–2016), Shelby Miller on "American Horror Story: Roanoke" (2016), Lavinia Richter on "American Horror Story: 1984" (2019), and Doris Gardner and Amelia Earhart on "American Horror Story: Double Feature" (2021). Rabe played Claire Bennigan on ABC's "The Whispers" (2015), Sylvia Steineitz on HBO's "The Undoing" (2020), Emma Hall on Amazon Prime Video's "Tell Me Your Secrets" (2021), Lorena Hickok on Showtime's "The First Lady" (2022), Meg on Apple TV+'s "Shrinking" (2023–2024), and Betty Gore on HBO Max's "Love & Death" (2023). She appeared in the 2017 HBO movie "The Wizard of Lies," and from 2017 to 2018, she voiced Honerva on the animated Netflix series "Voltron: Legendary Defender." Lily starred in the films "The Tender Bar" (2021), "Downtown Owl" (2023), and "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey" (2025) and the TV movie "The Great Lillian Hall" (2024), and she had recurring roles as Ethel Wells in the Amazon Prime Video miniseries "The Underground Railroad" (2021) and Dr. Liz Rush on the Apple TV+ legal drama "Presumed Innocent" (2024).

Personal Life

Since 2014, Lily has been in a relationship with actor/playwright Hamish Linklater, who is best known for starring as Matthew Kimble on "The New Adventures of Old Christine," Andrew Keanelly on the "The Crazy Ones," Clark Debussy on "Legion," and Father Paul Hill on "Midnight Mass." Lily and Hamish have welcomed two daughters and a son together. The couple co-directed the 2023 film "Downtown Owl."

Awards and Nominations

In 2016, Rabe won a Jury Award for Best Actress – Narrative Feature for "Miss Stevens" at the SXSW Film Festival. In 2013, she received a Critics Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries for "American Horror Story: Asylum." Lily has earned Gold Derby Award nominations for TV Movie/Mini Supporting Actress and Breakthrough Performer of the Year for "American Horror Story: Asylum" (2013) and Limited/Movie Supporting Actress for "Love & Death" (2023). She has also received Online Film & Television Association Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries for "American Horror Story: Asylum" (2013) and "American Horror Story: Coven" (2014) and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Limited or Anthology Series for "Love & Death" (2023).

Real Estate

In 2019, Rabe and Linklater sold their 3,402-square-foot home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $2.4 million. They paid $1.9 million for the four-bedroom home in 2016.

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