Sheryl Lee
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
I Live Here Now as Martha
2025I Know Catherine, the Log Lady as Self
2021Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House as Self
2019A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee as Self
2018Black Baby as Laura Palmer (archive footage)
2018#SquadGoals as Emily Hodges
2017The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair as Self
2017I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun as Self
2017Behind the Red Curtain as Self
2017Dead Ink Archive as Alley
2016Café Society as Karen Stern
2016Rebirth as Air
2015Rosewood as Brenda Downs
2014The Makings of You as Judy
2014White Bird in a Blizzard as May
2014Jackie & Ryan as Miriam
2014Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories as Herself
2014Between Two Worlds as Self
2014Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces as Laura Palmer
2012Perception as Lacey Penderhalt
2011Texas Killing Fields as Lucie Sliger
2010Winter's Bone as April
2007Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007Dirty Sexy Money as Andrea Smithson
2007Manchild as Mary
2006The Secrets of Comfort House as Wendy Brown
2006Psych as Donna Gooden
2006Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
2005Paradise Texas as Betsy Kinney
2004Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004House as Stephanie Green
2004CSI: NY as Ellen Garner
2003One Tree Hill as Ellie Harp
2003Kingpin as Marlene McDillon Cadena
2002Without a Trace as Tina Hodges
2002Children on Their Birthdays as Elinore Murphy
2001An Introduction to David Lynch as Self
2001Postcards From The Cast as Self
2001Hitched as Eve
2001Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks as Self
1999Angel's Dance as Angelica Chaste
1998Dante's View as Sam Kingsley
1998Vampires as Katrina
1998Kiss the Sky as Andy
1998L.A. Doctors as Sarah Church
1997The Blood Oranges as Fiona
1997This World, Then the Fireworks as Lois Archer
1997Bliss as Maria
1997David as Bathsheba
1997David as Batseba
1997Davide as Betsabea
1996Mother Night as Helga Noth / Resi Noth
1995Notes from Underground as Liza
1995Fall Time as Patty / Carol
1995Homage as Lucy Samuel
1995Follow The River as Mary Ingles
1994Don't Do It as Michelle
1994Guinevere as Guinevere
1994Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica as Kate Lyons (archive footage)
1994Backbeat as Astrid Kirchherr
1993Mr. Jones as June (uncredited)
1993Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Catherine / Shivering Deer
1992Jersey Girl as Tara
1992Red Shoe Diaries as Kate Lyons
1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Laura Palmer
1991Love, Lies and Murder as Patti Bailey
1990Wild at Heart as The Good Witch
1990Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer / Maddy Ferguson
1990Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer (archive footage)
1990Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer / Carrie Page
1990Twin Peaks as Maddy Ferguson
1990Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer
1989Twin Peaks as Laura Palmer / Maddy Ferguson
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self