Chloe Sevigny

Born: November 18 1974
Where: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

The former model and wannabe writer is probably best known for Lana Tisdel in Boys Don't Cry - a part that earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.

However, she is set to court controversy for an oral sex scene in Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny - said to be the "worst film" in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.

First discovered by Sassy in 1993, she worked as an intern for the magazine and soon became an American It Girl with a seven page spread in the New Yorker.

She moved to Brooklyn at 18 and appeared in music videos for Sonic Youth's Sugar Cane and the Lemonheads' Big Gay Heart.

Her big screen break came with her gentle portrayal of Jennie, a young teenager who learns she is HIV positive in Larry Clark's movie Kids.

Sevigny's next critically applauded role was that of Alice Kinnon in Whit Stillman's urbane Manhattan comedy The Last Days of Disco.

After Boys Don't Cry, she starred in the schizophrenia study Julien Donkey-Boy with Ewen Bremner and Scott Elliot's Map of the World with Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore.

Next up was the controversial adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis's misogynist American Psycho and 1992's erotic thriller Demonlover.

Recent work has included the role of Macaulay Culkin's girlfriend in the biopic of New York disco king Michael Alig Party Monster.

Chloe recently starred in Lars Von Triers' controversial and minimalist Dogville, opposite Nicole Kidman, as well as Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen.

Chloe played a more straight-laced role in the Woody Allen tragi-comedy Melinda & Melinda, as a yuppie who attempts to help out an old friend.

Future projects include 3 Needles, with Olympia Dukakis.