Lily Rabe

Ancestry:

• German, Irish or Scottish (father)
• Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish (maternal grandfather)
• English, Welsh, Dutch (maternal grandmother)

(From Ethnicelebs.)

Lily Rabe (born June 29, 1982) is an American actress. She is well known for playing Portia in the Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Rabe is also known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology series American Horror Story, and her lead role as Claire Bennigan on the ABC science fiction series The Whispers.

Rabe was born in 1982 in New York City, New York on the Upper West Side. She is the daughter of playwright David Rabe and actress Jill Clayburgh. She has a younger brother, Michael Rabe, an actor and playwright, and an older half-brother, Jason Rabe, a musician, from her father's first marriage. Her father is Catholic, her maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was Protestant. Rabe was raised in Bedford, New York and moved to Lakeville, Connecticut when she was in the seventh grade.

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