Birth Name: Chloe Stevens Sevigny
Stage Name: Chloë Sevigny [pronounced "se-ven-ee" - not e.g. "se-ven-yee" or "se-ven-yay"]
Date of Birth: November 18 1974
Place of Birth: Darien, Connecticut, USA
Height: 5′ 8” (or 173 cm)
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Parents: Former accountant/interior designer David Sevigny (deceased), former elementary school teacher Janine Sevigny née Malinovski
Siblings: Older brother Paul Sevigny
Spouse: Chloë Sevigny is unmarried
Children: None
Current Residence: Chloë lives in New York City
Profession: Actress
Claim to Fame in Acting: Her Academy Award-nominated role in Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Claim to Fame in Fashion: The 1994 Jay McInerney-article in The New Yorker
Did you know…?
• Chloë’s older brother Paul Sevigny is a well-known New York DJ.
• Chloë originally auditioned for the role of Brandon Teena in Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry (1999).
• Chloë turned down a (reportedly $500,000) supporting role in the 2001 movie, Legally Blonde.
• Chloë used to babysit actor Topher Grace while in high school.
• Chloë never really aspired to build a career independent film, and has often sought work in mainstream productions, especially in later days.
• Chloë hates tracksuits.
• Having been labeled “the It Girl” in the ’90s, Chloë says she was initially confused by the title and resisted it, as she felt it was something people used to describe socialites or party-girls, people of leisure and few accomplishments.
• Chloë is a smoker, and has tried drugs in her teens.
• Despite her “fashion icon” status, Chloë did not properly foray into fashion design until early 2008, when she debuted her first collection for the NY-based label Opening Ceremony. For a time, however, she was also the “creative director” for Matt Damhave and Tara Subkoff’s fashion label Imitation of Christ, discontinued in 2001.
• Chloë has appeared in advertisement campaigns for Cesare Paciotti, Miu Miu, Uniqlo, Ellus, MAC Cosmetics, H&M and Chloé.
• Following her controversial oral sex scene in The Brown Bunny in 2003, Chloë was reportedly dropped as a client by the William Morris Agency. Although her publicist denied the rumor, Chloë nevertheless left the agency and signed up with Endeavor.
• Chloë has been romantically involved with controversial writer-director Harmony Korine, with whom she collaborated on Kids (1995), Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999).
• Chloë interned for the now defunct Sassy magazine in 1992.
• The umlaut in “Chloë” is actually not on her birth certificate. According to Chloë, she got the idea from the children’s book Chloë and Maude: “[…] There was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It’s a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.” (Esquire, January 2009)
• Chloë’s father David Sevigny has had a great influence on Chloë’s personal style. David sadly passed away of cancer in 1996.
