Party Monster: Chloë Sevigny’s best and worst performances

As the star & producer of Lizzie Borden biopic Lizzie, Chloë Sevigny has spent a fair few years passionately working on the project. The movie was originally slated as a HBO miniseries before being scrapped when Lifetime scooped the idea in 2014 with Christina Ricci-led series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.

After receiving some unfavorable reviews following its Sundance premiere, Sevigny provided a candid interview with The Huffington Post outlining the movie’s troubled history.

“I wanted it to be this rousing, smash-the-patriarchy piece,” Sevigny explained before expressing how “heartbroken” she was when HBO dropped the miniseries. Cutting Bryce Kass’s script down to a feature was a problem apparently worsened by the initial director quitting Lizzie. He was eventually replaced by Craig William Macneill (The Boy), who brought his own vision to the piece.

“It was very hard. I was like, ‘If you have another scene with Kristen Stewart and you don’t put it in your movie, you’re stupid. What’s your problem?’ . . . There was more to the relationships that made them more complicated, and also then informed why Lizzie (who commits the murders). Now it’s a little more vague than what Bryce and I intended originally to do.”

Still, the movie maintained the now-notorious scene of a nude Borden massacring her parents with an axe which is a very Sevigny-esque sequence, so that’s something. Throughout her career, the iconically cool star has enjoyed a vast variety of weird, wonderful, stupefying, and sexy roles with mixed results. Here are twelve of her most memorable roles, ranked from worst to best.