Lili Haydn is an American rock violinist, vocalist, actress, and composer. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was 15, she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After graduating from Brown University with a BA in political science, Haydn started composing original songs and became one of the most requested session violinists around Los Angeles. By the time she signed with Atlantic in 1997, she had embraced a variety of genres, having played with Quwaali musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Porno for Pyros, Tracy Chapman, The Jayhawks, Brandy, Tony! Toni! Tone!, No Doubt, Tom Petty and more. In addition, she has played with, sung with, and opened for Sting, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Matchbox 20, Seal, and George Clinton, who calls her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin".

Filmography

• 2024Bad Faith — Music
• 2022Split at the Root — Original Music Composer
• 2021Strip Down, Rise Up — Music
• 2018DriverX — Original Music Composer
• 2018Feminists: What Were They Thinking? — Original Music Composer
• 2013Anita — Original Music Composer
• 2012Broken Kingdom — Original Music Composer
• 2012Somewhere Between — Original Music Composer
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Additional Soundtrack
• 2011Zeitgeist: Moving Forward — Music
• 2010The Town — Additional Soundtrack
• 1998Jack Frost — Lili
• 1987Not Quite Human — Jenny Beckerman
• The New Gidget — Gail Mitchell
• 1983Easy Money — Belinda Capuletti
• American Playhouse — Diana (segment 'Homesick')
• 1982Making Love — Little Sister
• St. Elsewhere — Marcy
• Hart to Hart — Marilee
• Mrs. Columbo — Jenny Columbo

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Californication — Herself
• Great Performances — Self