Sheryl Lee

Sheryl Lee

Birth : 1967-04-22, Augsburg, Germany

History

Sheryl Lee (born April 22, 1967) is an American actress. She came to international attention for her performances as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks and in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. She is also known for portraying photographer Astrid Kirchherr in Backbeat (1994) and for her roles in Vampires (1998) and Winter's Bone (2010), as well as for her television series roles in LA Doctors, Kingpin, One Tree Hill and Dirty Sexy Money.

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Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee

Movies

Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
An extensive interview with Palmer house owner and one-time Twin Peaks performer Mary Reber, with newly unearthed history and information about the home, and the behind the scenes surrounding the iconic location.
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Self
An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".
#SquadGoals
Emily Hodges
Ambitious high school senior Samantha Hodges is a serious journalist, both for the school paper and for the yearbook, but she's just as serious about her friends, Nate, Gillian, and Rudy, all of whom are vying with her for a full-ride local scholarship to college. Very close to her mother, Emily, who is the school's guidance counselor, Samantha finds her reporting taking an investigative turn when two of her classmates--and contenders for the scholarship--are murdered.
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Self
Behind the scenes of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, with a focus on the work of David Lynch directing the actors.
Behind the Red Curtain
Self
Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return. Focused on the set creation of the Black Lodge scenes.
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Self
Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.
Dead Ink Archive
Alley
A janitor has a secret he can't reveal until he collects all the scraps of paper from a theater floor. The story of an anonymous man who lives for one day a year. Starring Christopher Meehan and Sheryl Lee.
Café Society
Karen Stern
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Rebirth
Air
A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.
The Makings of You
Judy
Nothing happens until two people fall in love -- and then the whole world changes.
Jackie & Ryan
Miriam
A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
White Bird in a Blizzard
May
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Between Two Worlds
Self
"Between Two Worlds" is a featurette included in the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Twin Peaks: From Z to A Blu-ray releases. It features David Lynch interviewing Grace Zabriskie, Ray Wise and Sheryl Lee, first as their characters (Sarah Palmer, Leland Palmer, and Laura Palmer, respectively), then as themselves. The second portion of the featurette was later released in the Criterion Collection release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The Palmer family interview was written by Lynch.
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Laura Palmer
A feature-length compilation of deleted and extended scenes from the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
Herself
Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
Texas Killing Fields
Lucie Sliger
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
Winter's Bone
April
After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly popular show.
The Secrets of Comfort House
Wendy Brown
A multiple murder investigation in a small hunting town focuses on one suspect, Wendy Sinclair, who operates a battered women's shelter where each of the victims' wives have sought shelter.
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
Herself
Documentary by Frank H. Woodward.
Paradise Texas
Betsy Kinney
Stuck between work and family, Mack Cameron must choose between his acting career and saving his marriage. While on a film shoot in his hometown of Littleton, Texas, one young boy inspires Mack to pursue his lost dream. Paradise, Texas follows one man as he discovers it's never too late to be what you might have been.
Laura Palmer
Laura Palmer
Against the backdrop of a silky, bubblegum-pink curtain, the abused, traumatised, and emotionally broken teenage homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, the pivotal character of Twin Peaks (1990), and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), seems lost in thought. What does she see? What does she hear? As the ill-fated student struggles to harness lingering questions, the haunting theme of Angelo Badalamenti intensifies the elaborate mystery, and the tragedy of loss concludes with a climactic close-up of the once-happy Laura Palmer.
Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Self
"Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks" is a featurette originally released on the 2001 DVD release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It features various cast and crew reflecting on Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Children on Their Birthdays
Elinore Murphy
Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
An Introduction to David Lynch
Self
"An Introduction to David Lynch" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It features interviews with Catherine E. Coulson, Charles Ramirez-Borg, Lesli Linka Glatter, Miguel Ferrer, Michael J. Anderson, Kyle MacLachlan, Duwayne Dunham, Sheryl Lee, Peggy Lipton, and Richard Beymer, each discussing the filmmaking processes and methods of Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch.
Hitched
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
Angel's Dance
Angelica Chaste
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
Dante's View
Samantha Kingsley
Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very rare cards related to baseball. When her car breaks down in a remote corner of California, she meets June, a young woman who dreams of change.
Vampires
Katrina
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Kiss the Sky
Andy
Two professionals, Jeff and Marty, take a business trip to the Philippines. Their deep dissatisfaction with their lives leads them to forsake their friends and families for a return to the alcohol and drug-induced wanderings of their youth.
The Blood Oranges
Fiona
Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, they meet another couple, Catherine and Hugh, and their three children. Hugh is a one-armed photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. Soon, they decide to live together and an erotic atmosphere develops between them.
This World, Then the Fireworks
Lois Archer
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.
Bliss
Maria
A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific suppressed memory to emerge and she becomes more and more distant.
David
Batseba
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Mother Night
Helga Noth / Resi Noth
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Notes from Underground
Liza
Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.
Fall Time
Patty / Carol
Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.
Homage
Lucy Samuel
The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.
Follow The River
Mary Ingles
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
Don't Do It
Michelle
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.
Guinevere
Guinevere
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
Kate Lyons
A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's (Ally Sheedy, Scott Plank) secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect (David Duchovny) is lured by a mysterious beauty (Sheryl Lee) into a torrid game of temptation and seduction. And a hot-motored woman races a hard-driving man (Nick Chinlund) from the edge of passion to the depths of obsession in a detour to the back roads of destiny and desire in this Red Shoe Diaries collection from master sensualist Zalman King.
Backbeat
Astrid Kirchherr
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
Jersey Girl
Tara
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Laura Palmer
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Wild at Heart
The Good Witch
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
Twin Peaks
Laura Palmer
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)