Love Lies Bleeding
By Rose Glass
2024 | 104 min | Horror
LOVE LIES BLEEDING turns queer romance into a tense thriller about desire, violence and escape from a toxic small-town world, with body-horror edge.
Anna Baryshnikov
ActorThe actor Anna Baryshnikov has established herself through versatile roles in film and television. She completed her studies at Northwestern University in 2014 and shortly thereafter gained wider recognition for her role in the Oscar-winning drama "Manchester by the Sea" (2016). The performer also became known to a broader audience through her series regular role as Lavinia Dickinson in the show "Dickinson" (2019–2021). Her recent work includes the thriller "Love Lies Bleeding" (2024), in which she portrays the character Daisy.
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