Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actor best known for her role in American Horror Story (2011–).
Paulson has had other notable performances in 12 Years Slave (2013), Run (2020), and M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass (2019). In 2016, she portrayed real-life prosecutor Marcia Clark in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), which earned her critical praise. Her impressive resume includes more than 70 acting credits on screen, as well as a number of roles in stage productions. Her work has earned a Golden Globe Award as well as four nominations, a Primetime Emmy along with seven nominations, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Critics’ Choice Television Awards.
In 2017, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people of the year.[1]
Although she avoids labels, Paulson has been very open about her romances with both men and women. When asked to talk about her sexuality in a 2015 interview, she said,
All I can say is, I’ve done both, and I don’t let either experience define me. I don’t let having been with a man make me think I am heterosexual, or make me want to call myself that, because I know I have been attracted to women — and have lived with women. [2]
She has been in a relationship with Holland Taylor since 2015, living together in Los Angeles.