Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn at 2012 Chicago Wizard World
Born Sheryl Ann Fenn
(1965-02-01) February 1, 1965
Detroit, Michigan, US
Occupation Actress
Years active 1984–present
Spouse(s) Toulouse Holliday (1994–1997)
Partner(s) Johnny Depp (1985–1988)
Dylan Stewart (2006–present)
Children 2
Website www.sherilynshines.blogspot.com

Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn February 1, 1965) is an American actress. She came to attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks for which she was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. She is also known for her roles in Of Mice and Men, Ruby, Boxing Helena, Rude Awakening, and Two Moon Junction and for portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story.

Early life

Fenn was born Sheryl Ann Fenn[1] on February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. (She herself had not, as of late April of 2016, been known to have shown any musical talent of her own.) Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side, and of Irish and French descent on her father's. She was raised Catholic.[2]

Fenn frequently traveled with her mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was 17.[3] She did not want to start with a new school again, and soon enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.[3]

Acting career

Early career (1984–1989)

Fenn began her career with a number of B-movies, including The Wild Life (1984, opposite Chris Penn), the 1986 skater film Thrashin' (opposite Josh Brolin and Pamela Gidley), the 1986 teen fantasy movie The Wraith (alongside Charlie Sheen and versus Nick Cassavetes), the 1987 horror film Zombie High (alongside Virginia Madsen), and the Beauty and the Beast-inspired erotic movie Meridian. She had a part in the 1985 cult teen-comedy Just One of the Guys in which she tries to seduce a teenaged girl disguised as a boy, played by Joyce Hyser. Fenn starred alongside Johnny Depp in the 1985 short student film Dummies, directed by Laurie Frank for the American Film Institute. Fenn and Depp dated for three and a half years, subsequently getting engaged. In 1987, she joined Depp in a season-one episode of 21 Jump Street called "Blindsided."

Fenn has described many of these early films as sexploitation films "where directors tried to convince [her] to appear naked after the contract was signed."[4] In an interview she gave to Simon Banner in February of 1993 for the July 1993 British edition Premiere Magazine, published under the title "Five Feet of Heaven in a Ponytail," she explained, "Still, I did a lot of movies instead of waitressing or that kind of thing at the beginning, and it wasn't as if I even took acting very seriously when I started. I was in California for the first time. I was going to clubs, I was going here, I was going there, I was skipping acting classes when I could. Luckily, I had an agent who really believed in me and she just kept pushing me, thinking something would happen."[5]

Fenn landed her first starring role, as an engaged heiress to an old Southern family who falls for carnival worker Richard Tyson, in Zalman King's erotic drama film Two Moon Junction, after which she told Banner, when interviewed for Premiere UK, that she wanted to hide for a year.[6] "I was so embarrassed about how it turned out that I went into a cocoon for a year afterwards," Jessica Sully, writing for the Australian publication Movie Magazine, quoted her as saying in "Everybody's Mad about Sherilyn Fenn," which was published in its January 1993 edition.[7] Junction was meant to be Fenn’s big break, but the film turned into another sexploitation film. "A lot of people said some really bad things about me for doing such a sexy movie. But I decided to do it because I wasn't comfortable with the material.[8] I didn't want to make choices that would always put me in a place that was comfortable and secure. I thought interesting things would happen and I would grow. Interesting things did happen. I cried at the end of all my love scenes."[9]

After these film experiences, Fenn decided to take control of her career. "I decided to be more myself and not to be pushed into what other people wanted me to be. It’s scary how little imagination many people in this business have."[7]

Rise to fame – Twin Peaks (1990–1991)

Fenn won her most famous role and made an impression on the public when she was cast by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the tantalizing, reckless Audrey Horne, a high school femme fatale, in the critically acclaimed TV series Twin Peaks. The series ran from 1990 to 1991, and the character of Audrey was one of the most popular with fans, in particular for her unrequited love for FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and her style from the 1950s (with her saddle shoes, plaid skirts, and tight sweaters). Fenn reached cult status with a scene in which she danced to Angelo Badalamenti's music and a scene in which she knotted a cherry stem in her mouth. "With Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks came on and effortlessly destroyed every other show’s sexuality," said James Marshall, one of her cast-mates.[10] Speaking to Henry Edwards of Details Magazine, who quoted her in "Sherilyn Fenn: The Twin Peaks Temptress Is Back for Fall," which was published in September of 1990, Fenn pointed out: "Audrey is a woman-child who dresses like the girls in the '50s and shows her body. But she's daddy's little girl at the same time."[8] In the show's second season, when the idea of pairing Audrey with Cooper was abandoned, Audrey was paired with other characters like Bobby Briggs (played by Dana Ashbrook) and John Justice Wheeler (Billy Zane). About Audrey, Fenn said:

Audrey's been great for me. She has brought out a side of me that’s more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult. She has made it OK to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative at times, to be precocious. She goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it. I think that’s really admirable. I love that about her.[9]

Shortly after shooting the Twin Peaks' pilot episode, David Lynch gave her a small part in Wild at Heart, as a girl injured in a car wreck, obsessed by the contents of her purse, alongside Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. The film won the Golden Palm Award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. "David’s direction was, ‘Only think of this: bobby pins, lipstick, wallet, comb, that’s it.’ It’s very abstract."[11] "I just pictured her being able to do this," said Lynch of her scene, "she’s like a broken China doll."[12] David Lynch, who once described Sherilyn Fenn as "five feet of heaven in a ponytail" (quoting from a 1958 record by The Playmates), said to Banner, who used that description as the title of his article, "She's a mysterious girl and I think that actresses like her who have a mystery – where there's something hiding beneath the surface – are the really interesting ones."[13] "He's very creative and unafraid of taking chances," she said of the director. "I really respect him. He's wonderful."[14] Also during this period, Fenn appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in the December 1990 edition of Playboy magazine.

She soon portrayed John Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette in ABC's 1991 gangster TV movie Dillinger opposite Mark Harmon, and shot the neo-noir black comedy Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel in which she played a sultry, seductive femme fatale.
After Twin Peaks, Fenn chose to focus on widening her range of roles and was determined to avoid typecasting. She stated, "They’ve offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun."[15] She turned down the Audrey Horne spinoff series that was offered to her, and unlike most of the cast, chose not to return for the 1992 prequel movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, as she was then shooting Of Mice and Men.[16]

Post-Peaks roles (1992–1995)

After two nominations (Emmy and Golden Globe) for Twin Peaks, and the pictorial in Playboy mentioned above, for which she chose her then boyfriend, Barry Hollywood, to photograph her, Fenn was propelled to stardom and became a major sex symbol, with her Old Hollywood looks. In October 1990, while promoting Twin Peaks, Fenn made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine along with Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle. In 1990 Us Magazine chose her as one of the "10 Most Beautiful Women in the World" and in 1991 People magazine chose her as one of the "50 Most Beautiful Women in the World". She posed for photographer Steven Meisel for the autumn-winter 1991–1992 Dolce & Gabbana campaign, for which he photographed her as a classical Hollywood femme fatale. In 1992, photographer George Hurrell took a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts, and Sean Penn. In these portraits, he recreated his style of the 1930s, with Fenn posing in costumes, hairstyle, and makeup of the period.

In 1991, veteran Hollywood acting coach Roy London chose her to star in his directorial debut Diary of a Hitman, in which she plays a young mother determined to protect her child from hit man Forest Whitaker. According to Fenn, the turning point in her career was when she met London in 1990. She credits him with instilling confidence and newfound enthusiasm.

I was disillusioned with acting after the pilot of Twin Peaks. I'd been doing low-budget films. I didn't want to walk through movies being a pretty ornament. At 25 I didn't know if I had it. I questioned if there was depth, if there was integrity to me. I was longing to go inside, to do deeper work.[17]

She learned from her beloved teacher "to find the roles that you're passionate about, that speak to you on some level and which will help you grow on some level,"[18] which has then become her line of conduct. "A lot of the sentiment that acting should be about an art form rather than mass entertainment and celebrity is at the core of Fenn’s attitude to the business," wrote Jessica Sully in Australian magazine Movie.[19] "I try to keep myself centered," Fenn said. "I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart."[20] As Mike Bygrave wrote in Sky Magazine: "One of the keys to understanding Fenn is that when she talks about the characters she plays she's really talking about herself."[21] Fenn was eager to play varied parts that could eclipse her sex-symbol image. "People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex," she said.[17] After Twin Peaks, Fenn demanded a no-nudity clause in her contracts. She turned to independent films, choosing varied and unusual roles:

The world has certain rules – Hollywood has certain rules – but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.[21]

A highlight of Fenn's film career is Gary Sinise's film adaptation of Of Mice and Men, in which she played a sad and lonely country wife, desperately in need to talk to somebody, opposite Sinise and John Malkovich. "Sherilyn’s one of the reasons we got such a great ovation at Cannes", said Sinise.[22] "She’s like a terribly sad angel in this film. Sherilyn plays against just being a sexy and beautiful girl," he added.[23] "Gary Sinise was one of the first people who didn’t see me like a lot of other people did",[24] she said. "It was a wonderful experience. Horton Foote adapted the novel and he fleshed out my character, and he made her much, much more."[21] The same year, she starred alongside Danny Aiello and others in John Mackenzie's Ruby, about Jack Ruby. Fenn played the part of ambitious stripper Sheryl Ann DuJean, a fictitious character who is a composite of several real-life women including stripper Candy Barr, Marilyn Monroe, and Judith Campbell Exner. "She’s got a brain and all the right emotional instincts, and that’s a great combination," said Mackenzie of Fenn.[25]

In 1993, she starred in the romantic comedy Three of Hearts as Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin's love interest. During the shooting, the relationship between Fenn and director Yurek Bogayevicz became more and more strained as she refused to appear nude in the film.[26]

Another of her notable film roles was in the controversial Boxing Helena, directed by David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch. Fenn portrayed a narcissistic seductress amputated and imprisoned by Julian Sands, who makes her become his personal Venus de Milo in an effort to possess her. Fenn said of the film, "Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package."[27] Both Lynch and Fenn were proud of their work in it,[28] but the film was ultimately a critical and commercial failure. (Perhaps suspecting that possibility, Kim Basinger had rejected the role Fenn ultimately acted out, at the expense of nearly wiping out her available money and being forced to declare bankruptcy as a direct result.) However, both women enjoyed their collaboration. "Sherilyn is an amazing actress, a total bundle of energy and a real powerhouse and I think people will see a side of her that we have never seen of Sherilyn anywhere else before," said Lynch of the actress.[29] "Jennifer’s one of the brightest person I know,"[24] said Fenn. "Boxing Helena was... not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another."[24]

She then starred in Carl Reiner's neo-noir parody Fatal Instinct as Armand Assante's devoted secretary and Sean Young's and Kate Nelligan’s rival. She was asked to read for the femme fatale Lola (eventually played by Young), but opted for the secretary role.[30]

Fenn afterward portrayed Potiphar's wife Zulaikha in Showtime's 1995 Biblical TV movie Slave of Dreams opposite Adrian Pasdar and Edward James Olmos.

In 1995, she starred in an episode of Tales from the Crypt directed by Robert Zemeckis, alongside Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow, in which she played the lover of Humphrey Bogart, who appeared in the episode via CGI special effects.[14]

After a short break during which she married and gave birth to a son, Fenn was chosen out of more than 100 actresses to portray actress Elizabeth Taylor in NBC's 1995 telemovie Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story. Fenn called the role "probably the hardest job I’ve ever done."[24] "Director Kevin Connor and I arranged a lunch, not an audition," said executive producer Lester Persky. "We knew 10 minutes into our meeting that Sherilyn was it. She has the same striking beauty, and because of that she's experienced some of the things in life and in this business that make Elizabeth such a fascinating person."[31] When she accepted the part, Fenn was unaware that Taylor was embroiled in a lawsuit intended to stop both the broadcast of the film and the unauthorized biography that it was based on. Fenn stated about the controversy, "I am somebody who doesn't make choices lightly at this point of my life. I'm not somebody who wants to exploit another's woman story or life in any way."[32] Fenn felt a kinship with Taylor, stating, "There are stereotypes of what a beautiful woman is. She struggled with that. A certain part of her life she went on that calling card. I certainly know I've come into contact with that. ‘You are too pretty,’ I'm told."[17] During the shooting, Fenn supported the original screenwriter's effort to concentrate on Taylor the person, not the legend:[17]

I fought to keep the integrity of the story because the producer was bringing in a writer that was making it very soapy. They wanted many scenes of her when she was very overweight. I said, 'I'm not doing that. I'll do one. That's not this woman's life.' For me it was just: I didn't want to make an impression. I just tried to play the truth of the woman.[14]

Career slowdown (1996–1998)

In the late 1990s, Fenn's career took a downturn. In 1993, she had stated:

I don't get considered for a lot of those big fat movies. The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they’re right or wrong for a role doesn’t matter. It’s how much money their last movie made,"[33] she said. "Not that I necessarily want to do them anyway. Because there’s very few that are big budget that have any substance or any depth or any integrity."[14]

In 1997, she stated: "It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening necessarily then."[14][34] Also, she has attributed her failure to adapt to the Hollywood system to her frankness and her dislike for the "Hollywood game."

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when they said that was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it. I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with. In the next breath, this person said to me, ‘When you're passionate about a role, there's nobody that can touch you, but you have to learn to do this also...’ But I don't know how to sit there and pretend I love something when I don't![27]

She then began to alternate TV movies and independent films. In 1996, she joined the ensemble cast in the romantic comedy Lovelife as a waitress who attempts to become a writer and has to rebuild her life. Fenn also appeared in the 1997 romantic comedy Just Write, along with Jeremy Piven, as the dream actress of a Hollywood tour bus driver, who mistakes him for a famous screenwriter. Both films have been well-received on the festival circuit.

In a 1997 episode of Friends, "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner," which was Episode 14 of Season 3 of the show, Fenn guest-starred as Matthew Perry's girlfriend Ginger, who has a prosthetic right leg (a possible Boxing Helena in-joke). She stated, "I like the show. I was happy to be a part of it."[14]

The same year, she was cast as the female lead in ABC's show Prey (originally entitled Hungry for Survival) and starred in the unaired original pilot episode. However, the pilot was reshot and Fenn was replaced by Debra Messing.

Fenn starred in the 1998 British psychological drama and huis-clos Darkness Falls as a wealthy and neglected wife, who is sequestered with her husband (played by Tim Dutton) by a man (Ray Winstone) determined to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma. Fenn called the film "a wonderful character piece"[14] While shooting the film in the Isle of Man in late 1997, Fenn considered settling in London to start a European career, but eventually decided to stay in the U.S.[16][35]

She subsequently starred alongside Jon Tenney in the pilot for a remake of ABC's Love, American Style, for the 1998–1999 television season. The pilot, that also featured Melissa Joan Hart, Matt Letscher, and Mariska Hargitay, was not ordered into a series. Nevertheless, ABC aired it on February 20, 1999.

Return to television – Rude Awakening (1998–2001)

Fenn gained newfound enthusiasm with the lead role in Showtime's sitcom Rude Awakening as Billie Frank, an alcoholic ex-soap opera actress, who tries to go sober and become a writer, but continues to struggle with her self-destructive habits. The series ran from 1998 to 2001 and co-starred Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, and Mario Van Peebles. She said of it:

I liked the hard-core truth of Rude Awakening. But when I first read it, I was scared of it. Part of me was, like, it’s so unattractive! But I liked that it didn't glamorize alcohol. And what's admirable about Billie is that she's a straight shooter. She doesn't have a lot of pretense. It's like, ‘Take me as I am. You like me, fine! You don't, I don't give a damn!’ There's something quite empowering about somebody who doesn't care what other people think. Billie is learning about herself. She's recognized that she has a problem with drugs and alcohol, and she's trying to straighten it out.[27]

Fenn again joined Jeremy Piven in a 1998 episode of Cupid, as Piven's love interest.

In 1999, she reteamed with Chris Penn and Adrian Pasdar for Pasdar's art-house directorial debut, the neo-noir Cement, a contemporary retelling of Othello in which she played a tempting but imprudent wife of jealous corrupt cop Penn. "I play a character who's selfish and sloppy with her sexual energy. I saw the film and I was really happy with it. It's got a lot of soul."[24] The film, which won Best Picture awards on the festival circuit, was written by Farscape’s screenwriter, Justin Monjo and also starred Jeffrey Wright and Henry Czerny.
She also reteamed with actor/director Bruce Davison for his 2001 family comedy, Showtime's Off Season alongside Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn, and Adam Arkin.

2001–present

Following Rude Awakening, Fenn's work consisted of a number of episodic TV appearances. In the middle of the 2000s, she failed to find a role that could re-ignite her career as she got involved in many projects that went unrealized.

In 2001, she starred in the episode "Replica" of The Outer Limits, playing a scientist who volunteered to be cloned. She also starred in an episode of Night Visions, as a woman who buys a used car possessed by a vengeful spirit. She was cast as a kindergarten teacher for the pilot of the 2001 American version of the British TV show Blind Men, alongside French Stewart. However, the pilot was not ordered into a series.

In 2002, Fenn was one of several former Twin Peaks stars, such as Dana Ashbrook and Mädchen Amick, to have a recurring role on The WB's Dawson's Creek. She guest-starred in three episodes from the fifth season, as Alex Pearl, the seductive manager of the restaurant where Joshua Jackson works.
Fenn was afterwards cast as madcap villain Harley Quinn in The WB's Birds of Prey but was replaced by Mia Sara before the series began. Fenn starred in the original pilot episode, but dropped out, due to scheduling conflicts, as the show's creators realized that the character Harley Quinn would need to be a bigger part of the show.[36] She also played a manipulative woman in a season-four episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit versus both Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, and appeared in Watching Ellie.

Fenn played a crime boss in the 2002 film Swindle alongside Tom Sizemore. She had a small role in the film The United States of Leland alongside Ryan Gosling, in which she played a mother who captivates a troubled teenage boy.

In 2003, Fenn appeared on The WB's Gilmore Girls as Sasha, the girlfriend of Jess Mariano's estranged father (played by Rob Estes) in the season-three episode "Here Comes the Son", which was the back-door pilot for a California-set spin-off titled Windward Circle, that was to have starred Milo Ventimiglia, Estes, and Fenn.[37] But the network dropped the project, citing cost issues due to filming on location in Venice, California.

She then played the recurring part of Violet Montgomery on Fox's Boston Public (2003–2004),[38] and appeared in Showtime's Cavedweller (2004) opposite Kyra Sedgwick.
In 2004, Fenn joined former co-star Mark Harmon in an episode of NCIS, as an amnesiac woman. She was afterwards cast for the 2004 remake of Mister Ed, planned for the Fox network--but after the pilot was shot, the show's writer/producer, Drake Sather, committed suicide, and the pilot was not aired.

In 2004, Fenn co-starred opposite Traci Lords and Paul Johansson in Emily Skopov's Novel Romance, released in 2006, in which she played a pregnancy shop owner who herself cannot have children. She then appeared in the martial arts film Lesser of Three Evils alongside Ho Sung Pak, Peter Greene, and Roger Guenveur Smith, as the unbalanced and alcoholic wife of a corrupt detective. The film was released in 2009 under the title Fist of the Warrior.[39]

In 2005, Fenn made a notable appearance on The 4400, playing Jean DeLynn Baker, a 4400 who has the ability to grow toxin-emitting spores on her hands. She also guest-starred on the final episode of Judging Amy.

After finishing the Russia-set action film Treasure Raiders with David Carradine, Fenn starred in the Canadian psychological thriller Presumed Dead, alongside Duncan Regehr, as a detective working on a missing-person case who has to outwit a crime novelist.

In 2006, Fenn reteamed with Amy Sherman-Palladino and reappeared in the sixth and seventh seasons of Gilmore Girls as Anna Nardini, the ex-girlfriend of Luke Danes (played by Scott Patterson) and protective mother to his daughter April. Since the failure of the 2003 Gilmore Girls spin-off project, Sherman-Palladino had continued to want to work with Fenn again, and she wrote the character of Anna with her in mind.[40] When asked why she cast Fenn for two different roles on Gilmore Girls, Sherman-Palladino explained:

I love Sherilyn so much and I don't care. One thing about the show is I just want the best people. I've just been looking constantly for a time to work with Sherilyn, and I'm getting very old and I could just get hit by a truck at any minute. I just simply can't put it off that long, so I'd just rather get her in and have her part of my world.[41]

However, after Sherman-Palladino left the show, the direction for the character changed—the producers decided to make her character a villain in a custody battle.

Fenn was cast as the female lead in ABC's 2006 comedy series Three Moons Over Milford,[42][43] but she was ultimately replaced by Elizabeth McGovern.
Fenn was slated for a recurring role on CBS's 2006 crime drama Smith, but the show was quickly canceled.[44]

She appeared in the 2007 Dukes of Hazzard prequel, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning as Lulu Hogg. "It's just a fun silly role," Fenn said. But having already worked with director Robert Berlinger on Rude Awakening, she wanted to do so again.[45]

In July 2006, shortly after shooting The Dukes of Hazzard prequel, Fenn stepped behind the camera for the first time and directed in Pittsburgh a documentary film about child enrichment program CosmiKids and its founder, Judy Julin.[46] She subsequently joined its executive team in 2007 as executive director of the film and television division.[44]

In July 2008, Fenn filmed The Scenesters, a black comedy made by Los Angeles-based comedy group The Vacationeers, which premiered in October 2009.

In July 2009, Fenn made a guest appearance on In Plain Sight as a lesbian counterfeiter.

In December 2010, Fenn appeared on Psych with other Twin Peaks actors on the season-five episode "Dual Spires" as sultry librarian Maudette Hornsby. The episode paid homage to Twin Peaks and also made many in-joke references to the show. She is set to return to her role as Audrey Horne in 2017 for the limited third season of Twin Peaks.[47]

In February of 2016, she joined the cast of the American version of Shameless.

Personal life

Fenn dated pop singer Prince for a short time during 1985 and then Johnny Depp in 1986; their relationship lasted several years.

In 1994, Fenn married guitarist-songwriter Toulouse Holliday,[48] whom she met on the set of Three of Hearts; she had previously given birth to their son, Myles, in late 1993. Their marriage came to an end three years later in 1997.

Fenn is the mother of two boys, born in 1993 and 2007.[49]

In 2009, Fenn opened a blog she titled Postcards from the Ledge, which was still active as of late April of 2016.[50]

Awards and nominations

Other recognition

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1984 Wild Life, TheThe Wild Life Penny Harlin
1985 Out of Control Katie
1985 Just One of the Guys Sandy
1985 Dummies AFI short film
1986 Thrashin' Velvet
1986 Wraith, TheThe Wraith Keri Johnson
1987 Zombie High Suzi
1988 Two Moon Junction April Delongpre
1989 Crime Zone Helen
1989 True Blood Jennifer Scott
1990 Backstreet Dreams Lucy
1990 Wild at Heart Girl in accident
1990 Meridian Catherine Bomarzini
1991 Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel Bridget 'Bridey' DeSoto
1991 Diary of a Hitman Jain Zidzyck
1992 Ruby Sheryl Ann 'Candy Cane' DuJean also song performer
("It Had To Be You")
1992 Of Mice and Men Curley's wife
1993 Three of Hearts Ellen Armstrong
1993 Boxing Helena Helena
1993 Fatal Instinct Laura Lincolnberry
1997 Lovelife Molly
1997 Just Write Amanda Clark
1998 Shadow Men, TheThe Shadow Men Dez Wilson
1998 Outside Ozona Marcy Duggan Rice
1999 Darkness Falls Sally Driscoll
2000 Cement Lyndel Holt
2002 Swindle Sophie Zenn
2003 United States of Leland, TheThe United States of Leland Angela Calderon
2003 Dream Warrior Sterling
2006 Novel Romance Liza Normane Stewart
2007 Treasure Raiders Lena
2009 Fist of the Warrior Katie Barnes aka Lesser of Three Evils
2009 Scenesters, TheThe Scenesters A.D.A. Barbara Dietrichson
2013 Raze Elizabeth
2015 Something About Her Charlene in production
2015 Unnatural Dr. Hannah Lindval
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1984 Silence of the Heart Monica CBS TV movie
1985 Cheers Gabrielle episode 4.04 "The Groom Wore Clearasil"
1987 21 Jump Street Diane Nelson episode 1.09 "Blindsided"
1987 Tales from the Hollywood Hills Betty episode "A Table at Ciro's"
1988 Divided We Stand Lorraine ABC TV pilot – not ordered to series
1988 ABC Afterschool Special Beth episode 17.2 "A Family Again"
1989 TV 101 Robin Zimmer episodes 1.07, 1.08 "The Last Temptation of Checker" (part 1&2)
1990–1991 Twin Peaks Audrey Horne ABC TV series — series regular
Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
1991 Dillinger Billie Frechette ABC TV movie
1994 Spring Awakening Margie CBS TV movie
1995 Slave of Dreams Zulaikha Showtime TV movie
1995 Tales from the Crypt Erika episode 6.15 "You, Murderer"
1995 Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story Elizabeth Taylor NBC miniseries
1996 Season in Purgatory, AA Season in Purgatory Kit Bradley CBS miniseries
1997 Friends Ginger episode 3.14 "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner"
1997 Don's Analyst, TheThe Don's Analyst Isabella Leoni TMC TV movie
1997 Prey Dr. Sloan Larkin original pilot—also known as Hungry for Survival
1998 Nightmare Street Joanna Burke / Sarah Randolph ABC TV movie
1998–2001 Rude Awakening Billie Frank Showtime TV series — lead
1998 Cupid Helen Davis episode 1.07 "Pick-Up Schticks"
1999 Love, American Style Nancy segment "Love and the Jealous Lover"
2001 Outer Limits, TheThe Outer Limits Nora Griffiths / Nora's clone episode 7.07 "Replica"
2001 Night Visions Charlotte episode 1.08 "Used Car"
2001 Blind Men CBS TV pilot—not ordered to series
2001 Off Season Patty Winslow Showtime TV movie
2002 Watching Ellie Vanessa episodes 1.05 "Cheetos", 1.07 "Gift"
2002 Dawson's Creek Alexandra 'Alex' Pearl episodes 5.20 "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", 5.21 "After Hours", 5.22 "The Abby"
2002 Birds of Prey Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn original pilot
2002 Scent of Danger Brenna Shaw TV movie
2002 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Gloria Stanfield episode 4.02 "Deception"
2003 Nightwaves Shelby Naylor TV movie
2003 Gilmore Girls Sasha episode 3.21 "Here Comes the Son" — backdoor pilot for spin-off, not ordered to series
2003–2004 Boston Public Violet Montgomery recurring role (4 episodes)
2004 Cavedweller M.T. Showtime TV movie
2004 NCIS Jane Doe/Suzzanne McNeil episode 1.10 "Left for Dead"
2004 Century Cities Bree Clemens episode 1.07 "The Face Was Familiar"
2004 Mister Ed Carlotta Pope Fox TV pilot – not ordered to series
2004 Pop Rocks Allison Harden ABC TV movie
2005 Officer Down Kathryn Shaunessy TV movie
2005 Deadly Isolation Susan Mandaway TV movie
2005 Judging Amy Heather Reid episode 6.22 "My Name Is Amy Gray..."
2005 4400, TheThe 4400 Jean DeLynn Baker episode 2.7 "Carrier"
2006 Presumed Dead Det. Mary Anne 'Coop' Cooper TV movie
2006–2007 Gilmore Girls Anna Nardini The WB/The CW TV series — recurring role (8 episodes)
2006 CSI: Miami Gwen Creighton episode 4.22 "Open Water"
2006 Three Moons Over Milford Janet Davis original pilot
2006 Smith Debbie Turkenson episode 1.06 "Six"
2007 Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, TheThe Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning Lulu Hogg ABC TV movie
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2010 Psych Maudette Hornsby episode 5.12 "Dual Spires"
2012 Bigfoot Sheriff Becky Alvarez Syfy TV movie
2012 Project: Phoenix Ellena Hyland web series pilot
2013 Magic City Madame Renee recurring role (4 episodes)
2014 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Madame Suzanne episode 14.15 "Love For Sale"
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  8. 1 2 Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Sherilyn Fenn: The Twin Peaks Temptress Is Back for Fall" by Henry Edwards Details (US). September 1990. pp. 130–131.
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  16. 1 2 Dennis Hensley. "Fenn & Now". Movieline. June 1999. pp. 54–59.
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  29. ↑ Jennifer Lynch, quoted in the Boxing Helena press kit. 1993.
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  43. ↑ Picture of Sam Murphy, Sherilyn Fenn and Jill Schackner on the set of the Three Moons Over Milford unaired pilot episode
  44. 1 2 "Landlords: Actress Owes Thousands In Unpaid Rent, Trashed House". KNBC. September 19, 2007. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011.
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