Billie Lourd

Billie Lourd has spent most of her career playing people who are slightly out of step with the room: a sharp-tongued sorority girl, a cult member, a witch who inherits the top job in her coven. Her breakthrough was the Fox series Scream Queens, where she played Chanel #3, across 23 episodes in 2015 [1]. The same year she began a second track in the Star Wars films [1]. Born in Los Angeles on 17 July 1992, she is 34 as of November 2026 [1].

Family and early life

Lourd was born in Los Angeles [1]. Her mother was the actress Carrie Fisher, her father the talent agent Bryan Lourd, and her grandmother was the actress Debbie Reynolds [2]. That is the public family background, and it is the one thing most profiles open with. It is also the least useful part for understanding her work, because her career is built on her own credits: more than a decade of television and film roles listed by the film database TMDB [1].

She is American by birth and nationality [1] [8]. Her own Star Wars role, Lieutenant Connix, came in the sequel trilogy [1]. The sources used for this page do not give details of her schooling, so we leave that out.

Scream Queens and the first Star Wars film

The part that made her name was Chanel #3 in Scream Queens, a horror comedy for Fox. TMDB lists 23 episodes in 2015, and BroadwayWorld dates the show to 2015 and 2016 [1] [8]. In the same year she appeared as Lieutenant Connix in Star Wars: The Force Awakens [1]. The character returned in The Last Jedi in 2017 and The Rise of Skywalker in 2019 [1].

American Horror Story

From 2017 she became a regular in the anthology series American Horror Story. Her first season was Cult, where TMDB credits her in 11 episodes as Winter Anderson and Linda Kasabian [1]. In May 2018 Flickering Myth reported her return for the eighth season, alongside Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters and Joan Collins [5]. She played Mallory in that season, in 10 episodes [1].

She kept coming back. Montana Duke followed in 2019, across 9 episodes [1]. Two roles came in 2021, Leslie Lark Feldman and, in the spin-off American Horror Stories, Liv Whitley [1]. Hannah Wells (10 episodes) was her 2022 part, and Ashley (3 episodes) her 2023 one [1].

The 2026 season, American Horror Story: 13, brought her back to Mallory. In an interview published by TV Insider on 24 September 2026, she said: "I have a lot of empathy for Mallory now" [7]. She also joked that the show has never given Mallory a last name [7]. The same article says Mallory appeared in Apocalypse, where she became the Supreme and used a time-travel spell to stop Michael Langdon from bringing about the apocalypse [7]. TMDB lists the season with 13 episodes [1].

Booksmart and film work

Her best-known film part is Gigi in Booksmart, directed by Olivia Wilde. Flickering Myth reported in May 2018 that she had signed on, while the film was shooting in Los Angeles with Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein [5]. The film came out in 2019 [1]. In July 2019 the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society named her Best Supporting Actress for the role [4].

Other film roles followed. She played Rosanna Ricci in Billionaire Boys Club in 2018 and Wren Butler in Ticket to Paradise in 2022 [1]. TMDB lists her as Hannah in The Last Showgirl (2024) [1]. Her 2025 credits include a voice role as Worry Smurf in Smurfs, Cassidy in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and Grace Briscoe in Adulthood [1].

Television beyond horror

Not everything was horror. TMDB lists her in a 2020 episode of Will & Grace as Fiona, and in 2024 as Audrey in the series And Mrs. [1]. She also appears as herself in the documentary The Skywalker Legacy (2020) and as a guest on talk shows, including Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2016, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2019, and The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2022 [1]. TMDB also lists one 2025 episode of Mid-Century Modern [1]. Taken together, the list shows an actress who moves between ensemble comedy, horror and studio franchises rather than staying in one lane.

Career timeline and best-known work

Year	Title	Role
2015	Scream Queens	Chanel #3 [1]
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Lieutenant Connix [1]
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Lieutenant Connix [1]
2017	American Horror Story: Cult	Winter Anderson / Linda Kasabian [1]
2018	American Horror Story (season 8)	Mallory [1]
2018	Billionaire Boys Club	Rosanna Ricci [1]
2019	Booksmart	Gigi [1]
2019	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	Lieutenant Connix [1]
2019	American Horror Story (season 9)	Montana Duke [1]
2021	American Horror Stories	Liv Whitley [1]
2022	American Horror Story (season 11)	Hannah Wells [1]
2022	Ticket to Paradise	Wren Butler [1]
2024	The Last Showgirl	Hannah [1]
2025	Smurfs	Worry Smurf (voice) [1]
2026	American Horror Story: 13	Mallory [7]

Awards

The one award we could confirm from a reliable source is the Best Supporting Actress prize from the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society for Booksmart, reported in July 2019 [4]. We found no confirmed Emmy, Golden Globe or Oscar nomination for her, so we do not list one.

Relationships

Lourd is married to the actor Austen Rydell [2] [3]. TODAY reported that they got engaged in 2020, with Rydell giving her the ring in June of that year [3]. They married on a beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on Saturday 12 March 2022, and the news was reported on 15 March [3]. Gavin DeBecker and Bruce Wagner, two close friends of her mother, officiated the ceremony [3].

The couple have two children. Their son Kingston Fisher was born in September 2020, and their daughter Jackson Joanne in December 2022 [2]. TODAY gave the son's full name as Kingston Fisher Lourd Rydell [3]. We do not report earlier relationships, because no source we opened covers them on the record.

Net worth

We found no net worth estimate from a major outlet such as Forbes or Bloomberg. Websites that publish figures give numbers that disagree widely and do not name their method, so we do not print one.

What she is doing now

For 2026, TMDB lists a busy slate: Artificial, in which she plays Helen Toner, plus Love Language (Tilda), The Deputy (Doris), That Friend (Penny) and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (Emma Borden) [1]. Artificial is an AI-themed film directed by Luca Guadagnino for Amazon MGM Studios. When her casting was reported on 5 August 2025, the cast also included Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz [6]. TMDB also credits her as a producer on Wildflower (2023) and an executive producer of That Friend and Late Fame (2026) [1]. Release dates for several of these titles were not confirmed in the sources we opened.