The grief of losing a mentor, a best friend, or a family member is crushing for anyone, but it must have been especially devastating for Lily Rabe to lose somebody who represented all three things to her. In 2011, upon becoming one of the recipients of USA Network's annual Character Approved Awards, she donated the $10,000 prize money to a fund in her "mother's name at Columbia for research for chronic leukemia, which she died of" (via Theater Mania).
Somehow, Rabe found a way to power through her grief, and the year following her mother's death would be one of her strongest. Her love connection with actor Hamish Linklater continued when she starred opposite him in a production of "Seminar," with the "Midnight Mass" star casually boasting to Broadway.com that their chemistry was pretty hot. "Lily and I match up really well together," he said, in the world's biggest understatement.
Riding her moment, Rabe started dressing more playfully with cool-girl, rock 'n roll ensembles that gave her the swagger she'd earned. Shades and a jumpsuit on the red carpet? Rabe can rock it. As well as enjoying more prestigious TV roles such as a memorable one-episode arc on "The Good Wife," she was added by Ryan Murphy to the first season of his new project, "American Horror Story," where, as he told Collider, he was basically assembling his dream cast — which meant he "wrote a really big guest star part" for Rabe.
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