Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn , born Sheryl Ann Fenn the 1965 with Détroit is an American of origin irlando-free-italo-Hungarian woman, known actress to have interpreted the role of Audrey Horne in the series worship Twin Peaks , like for its roles in the films Of the Mice and the Men and Boxing Helena , and the series Rude Awakening .

Biography

After having travelled much with his/her mother Arlene Quatro (keyboard for rock groups and sister of the rock'n'roll-star Suzi Quatro), they settle in Los Angeles whereas Sherilyn is 17 years old. It then decides to stop the college and rather quickly begins a career from actress before taking courses of dramatic art to the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute .

Sherilyn Fenn begins its career as of the medium from the Années 1980 with many B films like The Wild Life (1984) with Chris Penn, Just One off the Guys (1985) with Joyce Hyser, or Phanthom ( The Wraith , 1986) with Charlie Sheen. She obtains its first main role in erotic film In Fleur de Peau ( Two Moon Junction , 1988) of Zalman King, at the sides of Richard Tyson.

It is the role of sensual and bold Audrey Horne, the femme fatale of the series worship Twin Peaks which tries to allure the agent of the FBI Paves Cooper (interpreted by Kyle MacLachlan), which offers the celebrity to him and who is worth to him a nomination with the Emmy Award S like with the Golden Globes. Twin Peaks , created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, lasted of 1990 to 1991 and the character of Audrey was one of most outstanding of the series, in particular for a scene in which it succeeds in making a node with a cherry tail in her mouth as well as a scene where it starts to only dance on the music of Angelo Badalamenti. To have turned shortly after the pilot episode of Twin Peaks , David Lynch offers to him a small role in Sailor and Lula ( Wild At Heart , 1990) at the sides of Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, in which she plays an young girl victim of an car accident living the last minutes of her life and obnibulée by the contents of her handbag.

After Twin Peaks and a series of photographs for the number of Playboy of December 1990, Sherilyn becomes one of new the Sex symbol S (it is in particular selected in 1991 by the magazine People like one of the 50 more beautiful people of the world) and can extriquer of the roles of series B which were proposed to him until there. Wanting to prevent that the role of Audrey does not mark too her career, she refuses to take again her role in the Spin-off based on the character of Audrey which is proposed to him, like in the film Twin Peaks, the Last seven Days of Laura Palmer ( Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me , 1992) (it then made the film Of the Mice and the Men ). Seeing itself proposing roles too similar to that of Audrey by the large studios, Sherilyn turns to the independent cinema and chooses many against-employment in order to avoid being categorized and to widen the extent of its roles. It then incarnates roles varied in films such as Meurtre with the Hotel Sunset ( Desire and Hell At Sunset Motel , 1992) or Hit Man, a Killer ( Diary off has Hitman , 1991, carried out by its professor of dramatic art Roy London) in the role of an young mother ready with very to convince the hired killer Forest Whitaker to save its baby. In 1992, she interprets the character of Sheryl Ann DuJean, inspired by several of the women of the entourage of John Kennedy, in particular Marilyn Monroe, in Ruby of John Mackenzie, which recalls the end of the lifetime of Jack Ruby) at the sides of Danny Aiello and Arliss Howard. The same year Gary Sinise chooses it to play in its film Of the Mice and the Men , enabling him to play sides of John Malkovich. In 1993 it turns Boxing Helena , under the direction of Jennifer Chambers Lynch. She interprets the role of Helena there, a narcissistic seductresses, that Julian Sands cuts down by its legs and its arms in order to be able to have it. One could see it the same year in the romantic comedy Three of Heart ( Three off Hearts ) in the role of a young professor bisexual who hesitates between Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin and in the comedy Fatal Instinct (which parodies the thrillers the Eighties and Nineties), of Carl Reiner in the role of the devoted secretary of Armand Assante, at the sides of Sean Young and Kate Nelligan. She interprets then the role of Elizabeth Taylor in the telefilm Liz, The Elizabeth Taylor Story , followed by two romantic comedies: Lovelife in 1996 with Matt Letscher, Jon Tenney, Bruce Davison, Saffron Burrows and Carla Gugino, in the role of a waitress not very trustful in itself which must rebuild its life after being misled, and Tendre Imposture ( Just Write , also known under the name of Love at first sight in Hollywood ) in 1997 in the role of the preferred actress of Jeremy Piven, which confuses it with a scenario writer.

Sherilyn starts to be wearied of Hollywood and the roles that one proposes to him and leaves to the United Kingdom to turn the psychological thriller Darkness Falls (1998) in which it is made sequester by a desperate Ray Winstone. It goes back to the United States to interpret the role of Billie Frank, a former alcoholic actress of sitcom in prey with its interior demons in the sitcom Rude Awakening (1998-2001) created by Claudia Lonow. One could also see it in 1999 in the film néo-black Cement , first realization of the actor Adrian Pasdar, in the role of a femme fatale temptress but inconsistent, in whom it finds Chris Penn (also with Jeffrey Wright and Henry Czerny), like in the telefilm Off Season (2001), realized by Bruce Davison, with Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn and Adam Arkin or in The United States off Leland (2003), in the role of a woman who incarnates it happiness and love of life for Ryan Gosling.

Sherilyn Fenn is appeared also in many television series like 21 Jump Street (1987, near Johnny Depp, which its was then promised in marriage), Tales of Crypt (1995, in an episode carried out by Robert Zemeckis, with Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow), Friends (1997, in the role of Ginger, the boyfriend of Chandler which has a wooden leg), Love Therapy ( Cupid , 1998, in which it finds Jeremy Piven), Beyondreality: the Adventure Continues (2001, in which it is made duplicate), Nights of Strange the ( Night Visions , 2001), New York Special unit (2002), NCIS: Special investigations (2004), the 4400 (2005, in the role of Jean DeLynn Baker, one 4400 which with the capacity to emit spores mortals by the palm of its hands) or Experts: Miami (2006). It had recurring roles in Boston Public and Dawson and played two different parts in Gilmore Girls , appearing for the first time in 2003, then returning to interpret the role of Anna Nardini in 2006.

Selective catalog of films

1985 : Just One off the Guys , of LISA Gottlieb
1986: Phanthom ( The Wraith ), of Mike Marvin
1988: In Fleur de Peau ( Two Moon Junction ), of Zalman King
1990 - 1991: Twin Peaks , created by David Lynch and Mark Frost
1990: Sailor and Lula ( Wild At Heart ), of David Lynch
1991: Hit Man, a Killer ( Diary off has Hitman ), of Roy London
1992: Murder with the Hotel Sunset ( Desired and Hell At Sunset Motel ), of Alien Castle
1992: Ruby , of John Mackenzie
1992: Of the Mice and the Men ( Off Mice and Men ), of Gary Sinicizes
1993: Three of Heart ( Three off Hearts ), of Yurek Bogayevicz
1993: Boxing Helena , of Jennifer Chambers Lynch
1993: Fatal Instinct , of Carl Reiner
1995: Liz, The Eizabeth Taylor Story (TV), of Kevin Connor
1995: Tales of the Crypt (episode 6.15 You, Murderer , realized by Robert Zemeckis)
1996: Lovelife , of Jon Harmon Feldman
1997: Tender Imposture ( Love at first sight in Hollywood ) ( Just Write ), of Andrew Gallerani
1997: Friends (episode 3.14 That the prostheses did not obstruct , carried out by Robby Benson)
1998: Darkness Falls , of Gerry Lively
1998 - 2001: Hard Awakening , created by Claudia Lonow
1999: Cement , of Adrian Pasdar
2002: Dawson ( Dawson' S Creek ), created by Kevin Williamson
2002: New York special unit ( Law & Order: Special Victims Links ) (episode 4.2 scandalous Liaison , realized by Constantine Makris)
2003: The United States off Leland , of Matthew Ryan Hoge
2003 - 2005: Boston Public , created by David E. Kelley
2005: the 4400 ( The 4400 ) (episode 2.7 the Riding one of the Apocalypse , realized by Leslie Libman)
2006: Gilmore Girls , created by Amy Sherman-Palladino

Rewards and nominations

1990 : Emmy Award: Better actress in a supporting role in a serial or drama series ( Twin Peaks ) - nomination
1991 : Award Golden Globe: Better actress in a supporting role in a series, a minisery or a telefilm ( Twin Peaks ) - nomination

Anecdotes

David Lynch described Sherilyn Fenn as being " 1m50 of paradise in one tail-of-cheval" ( " 5 feet off heaven in has ponytail" ). He also said that Sherilyn Fenn always made him think of a headstock porcelain. It is of this impression that the idea came to him from the scene of the car accident in Sailor and Lula . He filmed the character interprets by Sherilyn Fenn like a broken porcelain headstock.

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