An actress that has worked on American Horror Story also plays in Pawn Sacrifice.
Lily Rabe . Rabe is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology series American Horror Story , and her lead role as Claire Bennigan on the ABC science fiction series The Whispers . Pawn Sacrifice . The film stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer , Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky , Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer , and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy .