Sheryl Lee

Sheryl Lee

Born: April 22, 1967
in Augsburg, Germany
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.

Movies for Sheryl Lee...

Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Title: Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Released: March 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
Title: A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
Character: Self
Released: December 10, 2019
Type: Movie
A rare joint interview running approximately 90 minutes with the actors behind the iconic characters of Laura Palmer and Special Agent Dale Cooper. Moderated by longtime Lynch collaborator Kristine McKenna, the two stars offer a fascinating and unique perspective of the original series and its pilot, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks: The Return, and their special experiences working with David Lynch.
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#SquadGoals
Title: #SquadGoals
Character: Emily Hodges
Released: January 16, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Title: I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.
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The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Title: The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, with a focus on the work of David Lynch directing the actors.
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Behind the Red Curtain
Title: Behind the Red Curtain
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Dead Ink Archive
Title: Dead Ink Archive
Character: Alley
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Café Society
Title: Café Society
Character: Karen Stern
Released: May 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Rebirth
Title: Rebirth
Character: Air
Released: April 17, 2016
Type: Movie
A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.
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Title: Rosewood
Character: Brenda Downs
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: TV
Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology and his drive to live life to the fullest to help a tough-as-nails detective and the Miami PD uncover clues no one else can see.
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The Makings of You
Title: The Makings of You
Character: Judy
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Nothing happens until two people fall in love -- and then the whole world changes.
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Jackie & Ryan
Title: Jackie & Ryan
Character: Miriam
Released: September 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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White Bird in a Blizzard
Title: White Bird in a Blizzard
Character: May
Released: August 14, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
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Between Two Worlds
Title: Between Two Worlds
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 2014
Type: Movie
"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.
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Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
Title: Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
Character: Herself
Released: July 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Title: Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Character: Laura Palmer
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
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Title: Perception
Character: Lacey Penderhalt
Released: July 9, 2012
Type: TV
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
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Texas Killing Fields
Title: Texas Killing Fields
Character: Lucie Sliger
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
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Winter's Bone
Title: Winter's Bone
Character: April
Released: June 11, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Title: Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Dirty Sexy Money
Character: Andrea Smithson
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying eyes of the world. As the Darlings' reluctant personal lawyer, Nick George has barely begun to discover the legal - and illegal - needs of the family. Blackmail threats. Questionable deals. Illegitimate children. Illicit affairs. It will take every trick he can think of to keep them out of the tabloids - and out of jail. But if he can solve his father's mysterious death, it might be worth the hassle. Enter a seductive world of glamorous people, exclusive parties and delicious intrigue.
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The Secrets of Comfort House
Title: The Secrets of Comfort House
Character: Wendy Brown
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Psych
Character: Donna Gooden
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Working with a Master: John Carpenter
Title: Working with a Master: John Carpenter
Character: Self
Released: March 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary by Frank H. Woodward.
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Paradise Texas
Title: Paradise Texas
Character: Betsy Kinney
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: House
Character: Stephanie Green
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Ellen Garner
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Title: One Tree Hill
Character: Ellie Harp
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.
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Title: Kingpin
Character: Marlene McDillon Cadena
Released: February 2, 2003
Type: TV
Kingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named Miguel Cadena and his family life. It was to be followed by a television series, but low ratings canceled those plans. Commercials for the mini-series on NBC featured the song "Más" by the Mexican band Kinky.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Tina Hodges
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Title: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Character: Self
Released: February 26, 2002
Type: Movie
"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.
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Children on Their Birthdays
Title: Children on Their Birthdays
Character: Elinore Murphy
Released: February 16, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Laura Palmer
Title: Laura Palmer
Character: Laura Palmer
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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 once-happy Laura Palmer.—Nick Riganas
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An Introduction to David Lynch
Title: An Introduction to David Lynch
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
"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.
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Postcards From The Cast
Title: Postcards From The Cast
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
"Postcards From The Cast" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It was later re-released in the Blu-ray sets, Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Twin Peaks: From Z to A. It features interview snippets of various subjects with cast members of Twin Peaks.
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Hitched
Title: Hitched
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
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Angel's Dance
Title: Angel's Dance
Character: Angelica Chaste
Released: February 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
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Dante's View
Title: Dante's View
Character: Sam Kingsley
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Vampires
Title: Vampires
Character: Katrina
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Kiss the Sky
Title: Kiss the Sky
Character: Andy
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: L.A. Doctors
Character: Dr. Sarah Church
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
L.A. Doctors is an American medical drama television series set in a Los Angeles practice. It ran on CBS during the 1998-99 season.
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The Blood Oranges
Title: The Blood Oranges
Character: Fiona
Released: September 7, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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This World, Then the Fireworks
Title: This World, Then the Fireworks
Character: Lois Archer
Released: July 11, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder.
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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Character: Maria
Released: April 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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David
Title: David
Character: Batseba
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Mother Night
Title: Mother Night
Character: Helga Noth / Resi Noth
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Notes from Underground
Title: Notes from Underground
Character: Liza
Released: September 12, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Fall Time
Title: Fall Time
Character: Patty / Carol
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Homage
Title: Homage
Character: Lucy Samuel
Released: May 3, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Follow The River
Title: Follow The River
Character: Mary Ingles
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Don't Do It
Title: Don't Do It
Character: Michelle
Released: November 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.
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Guinevere
Title: Guinevere
Character: Guinevere
Released: May 7, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
Title: Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
Character: Kate Lyons (archive footage)
Released: April 20, 1994
Type: Movie
A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect is lured by a mysterious beauty into a torrid game of temptation and seduction. And a hot-motored woman races a hard-driving man 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.
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Backbeat
Title: Backbeat
Character: Astrid Kirchherr
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.
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Jersey Girl
Title: Jersey Girl
Character: Tara
Released: August 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
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Title: Red Shoe Diaries
Character: Kate Lyons
Released: June 27, 1992
Type: TV
Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Title: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Character: Laura Palmer
Released: June 3, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Love, Lies and Murder
Character: Patti Bailey
Released: February 17, 1991
Type: TV
Love, Lies, and Murder is a 1991 American miniseries starring Clancy Brown, Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, Tom Bower, John Ashton, and Cynthia Nixon. It is based on the 1985 murder of Linda Bailey Brown. The names were not changed for the film. The miniseries is four hours long and aired on NBC in two parts, the first on February 16, 1991 and the second on February 18, 1991. Lifetime airs the miniseries.
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Wild at Heart
Title: Wild at Heart
Character: The Good Witch
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Laura Palmer
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Laura Palmer / Carrie Page
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Maddy Ferguson / Laura Palmer
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Laura Palmer (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Laura Palmer / Maddy Ferguson
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Twin Peaks
Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Laura Palmer
Released: September 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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.)
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I Live Here Now
Title: I Live Here Now
Character: Martha
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.
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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Title: I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".