Chloë Sevigny used to say she wanted to start a family before she turned 30. At the time the actress was busy playing characters that would worry most parents: Jennie, an HIV-positive teenager in her debut Kids; a schoolgirl going home with Steve Buscemi (five years before Ghost World) in 1996’s Trees Lounge; the true-life ex-girlfriend of a slain stealth trans man in her Academy Award nominated turn in Boys Don’t Cry. At 25, she played her first mother on film—a troubled young woman whose son accuses the school nurse of child abuse—in 1999’s A Map of the World opposite Sigourney Weaver. It wasn’t until Sevigny was 45 that she had her first child, son Vanja, with art director husband Siniša Mačković. “It’s funny that she has a baby now,” her longtime best friend, Natasha Lyonne, told The New York Times’ T Magazine last year, “because she’s so maternal. People probably don’t realize it, but that’s what she does for a lot of our friends.” The two actresses became close back when Sevigny was filming A Map of the World. On the second season of Russian Doll, the series Lyonne cocreated and stars in, Sevigny appears by way of flashbacks as Lyonne’s mother.

Chloë Sevigny used to say she wanted to start a family before she turned 30. At the time the actress was busy playing characters that would worry most parents: Jennie, an HIV-positive teenager in her debut Kids; a schoolgirl going home with Steve Buscemi (five years before Ghost World) in 1996’s Trees Lounge; the true-life ex-girlfriend of a slain stealth trans man in her Academy Award nominated turn in Boys Don’t Cry. At 25, she played her first mother on film—a troubled young woman whose son accuses the school nurse of child abuse—in 1999’s A Map of the World opposite Sigourney Weaver. It wasn’t until Sevigny was 45 that she had her first child, son Vanja, with art director husband Siniša Mačković. “It’s funny that she has a baby now,” her longtime best friend, Natasha Lyonne, told The New York Times’ T Magazine last year, “because she’s so maternal. People probably don’t realize it, but that’s what she does for a lot of our friends.” The two actresses became close back when Sevigny was filming A Map of the World. On the second season of Russian Doll, the series Lyonne cocreated and stars in, Sevigny appears by way of flashbacks as Lyonne’s mother.