Twin Peaks
ABC (ended 1991)
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Kyle MacLachlan
Special Agent Dale Cooper
Kyle MacLachlan was born on February 22, 1959, in Yakima, Washington, and attended Eisenhower High School in Yakima. In 1982, he was graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts.
Although this talented actor claims to be a descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach on his mother's side, more easily provable is the fact MacLachlan developed his love of drama when reading the Hardy Boys adventures as a child, acting
out all the parts as he went along. After theatre experience, Kyle was discovered for films by director David Lynch, who cast the actor as the ingenuous
male leads in Dune (1984) and Blue Velvet (1986), with whom he has remained friends.
In 1990, Kyle won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of FBI agent Dale Cooper in the Lynch-created TV series Twin Peaks." Reportedly, he turned down the Charlie Sheen role in Oliver Stone's Platoon. He made his directorial debut with an episode of the made-for-cable anthology Tales from the Crypt.
He and Desiree Gruber were married on April 20, 2002, at Plymouth Congregational Church in Miami, Florida.
His most current role is Orson Hodge, in ABC's Desperate Housewives.
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Michael Ontkean
Sherriff Harry S. Truman
The son of actor parents, Michael Ontkean took the stage for the first time when he was four years old. He continued acting, including roles in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and the Canadian TV series, Hudson's Bay. Ontkean attended the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before heading to Hollywood where he landed a leading role in the series The Rookies. He continued to act into the 2000s in both television and movies.moreless -
Mädchen Amick
Shelly Johnson
Mdchen Amick was born in Sparks, Nevada on December 12, 1970 and raised in Reno. She is the daughter of Bill and Judy Amick. Her parents always encouraged her creativity. As a child she learned to play piano, bass, violin, and guitar, and studied tap, ballet, jazz and modern dancing. In 1987, at the age of 16, she traveled to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Amick got started with a small part in the episode "The Dauphin" of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation and she has been working steadily in the industry ever since.
She is probably best known for her role as Shelly, the RR Diner waitress on the series Twin Peaks.moreless -
Dana Ashbrook
Bobby Briggs
Dana Ashbrook came into acting naturally; he grew up in a theatrical household in San Diego. His father is head of Palomar College's drama department, and his mother is a teacher who still acts in local theater. His two older sisters, Daphne and Taylor, are both actresses working in the film industry. It was through Daphne that Dana got his first professional break. She urged her agent to come to San Diego to see her brother in a high school production. The agent signed Dana up, and at 18 the young actor made his television debut on an episode of "Cagney & Lacey." Soon after that, he made a guest appearance on "21 Jump Street," on an episode that explored the abortion issue. Within a year, he appeared on the "ABC Afterschool Specials" presentation, "Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story," playing a high school class president with a vicious temperament. His film credits include appearances in "Waxwork"; "She's Out of Control," in which he played the boyfriend of Tony Danza's daughter; and "Ghost Dad," as the would-be boyfriend of Bill Cosby's daughter. In "Twin Peaks," Dana is something else again. He describes his character, Bobby Briggs, as "the football hero in a town where high school football is the big thing, and because of that, he gets away with whatever he wants. He can't stand hypocrisy. You want to stay on his good side." In his free time, Dana is a nonstop basketball and tennis player. He travels as much as he can and goes off-road biking. He also likes to jam on the harmonica with friends and to sing. Ashbrook makes his home in Los Angeles.moreless -
Richard Beymer
Benjamin Horne
Richard Beymer was born in Avoca, Iowa and moved with his parents to Hollywood, California in the late 1940s. He acted in various films and television programs while attending North Hollywood High School, and continued making a name for himself in cinema until 1961 when he got his big break playing Tony in the film version of West Side Story. His career now spans more than 50 years, and he is perhaps best known for his role in West Side Story and his portrayal of the morally questionable landowner Benjamin Horne in the TV series Twin Peaks.moreless -
Lara Flynn Boyle
Donna Marie Hayward
Boyle's first film role was a bit part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which earned her a SAG card, though her scene was eliminated from the final cut of the film. She then appeared in Amerika (1987), Poltergeist III (1988) and Dead Poets Society (1989), before landing her first major part, and the role which made her well known, playing Donna Hayward in the critically acclaimed series Twin Peaks. When the series ended in 1991, creator David Lynch produced a movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, but - largely due to her rise in fame, and increased film offers - Boyle chose not to return. Moira Kelly took over the role of Donna for the film.
Boyle spent much of the nineties making a name for herself in films with varying degrees of success. Some of her most notable roles were that of the obsessive and accident-prone Stacy in Wayne's World (1992) , the fragile, homeless teen Heather in Where The Day Takes You (1992) , psycho secretary-from-hell Kris Bolin in what was geared to be her breakout success, but ultimately became a box-office bust, The Temp (1993) , the sultry and manipulative Suzanne of Red Rock West (1993) which solidified her status as a premier femme fatale, Alex, the sexually assured drama queen in the cult c Generation X comedy Threesome (1994) and flighty, manically repressed housewife Marianne Byron in Afterglow (1997).
Finally, in 1997, Boyle auditioned for the title role in David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal. Although she lost out to Calista Flockhart, Boyle impressed him enough to create the role of Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in his other 1997 series, The Practice specifically for her. She starred on the show until 2003, when - in a dramatic attempt to revamp the show and cut costs - she was unceremoniously dismissed along with most of the other main cast. The role of Helen earned her an Emmy nomination, as well as household fame and several Screen Actors Guild ensemble cast nominations. She also made a crossover appearance in the role of Helen in an episode of Ally McBeal.
In 2002, Boyle played a lead role in the blockbuster film Men in Black II as the villainous alien Serleena. She also guest starred on one of the last episodes of Ally McBeal once again, only this time as Tally Cupp, a completely different role from that which she played before.
Recently, she had a recurring role on several episodes of Huff, playing Melody Coatar, an unstable bipolar manic-depressive .
In 2005, Boyle joined the cast of Las Vegas for a seven episode stint as Monica, a new hotel owner.moreless -
Sherilyn Fenn
Audrey Horne
An underused actress with a mixed resume of modern classics and disastrous flops. Best known for her vulnerable vamp Audrey Horne, a supporting role in the David Lynch/Mark Frost television series "Twin Peaks" from 1990-1991. Fenn became unreasonably notorious as the replacement for Kim Basinger in Jennifer Lynch's film "Boxing Helena," when Basinger quit the film amid a much-publicized lawsuit. Recent casting of Sherilyn Fenn can best be described as 'relagated' to tv movie roles of little or no quality. Despite her talents, and her early work on an exceptional television program, Fenn's latest projects have typified the sort of low-budget absurdity which makes 'made for tv' a euphemism for schlock. The Animal Planet movie "Scent of Danger," where she portrays an FBI agent teamed with a rescue dog to hunt serial killers, is downright insulting. Its extensive inaccuracies are worth emphasizing only because of the context in which the movie was broadcast. It was meant to be a serious 'message picture,' entertaining and informing the public about the value of working dogs. Fenn is miscast in the extreme. The story's depiction of a lovable stray dog rapidly converted into an FBI sleuth grossly misrepresents the extensive training any working dog requires before working in search and rescue. Fenn looks physically uncomfortable in the role. Her performance is (though not as much a culprit as the substandard script) a terrible representation of canine law enforcement personnel. An internet search for "Scent of Danger" rapidly demonstrates that hundreds of people who actually work with dogs despised the movie, making it much worse than merely forgettable. Fenn's involvement is unfortunate. The project was deeply flawed in every way. So consistently miscast, her career now appears either random or desparate. Most of her recent work has been yeoman class and pedestrain. Not to criticize Fenn unduly, but the best that can be said for many of her roles in the past five years, is that the entire movie was deeply flawed on a level of basic incompetance.moreless -
Warren Frost
Dr. William Hayward
Born and raised in upstate Vermont, Warren Frost left his home at the age of 17 to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After finishing his service, he started working in the theater. He has a doctorate in theater arts from the University of Minnesota and a published playwright with four plays to his credit and has writen a novel.moreless -
Peggy Lipton
Norma Jennings
CAREER IN THE '60s: At eighteen Peggy was a successful NY model. Moving to L.A. in the mid-'60s, she made early TV appearances as a young teen in "The Virginian" and in episode twenty of the new "Bewitched" in '64. Then she was a regular on the short-lived "The John Forsythe Show" in '65, she also did "The Invaders" in '67. That year she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures for $250 a week, but Aaron Spelling managed to "borrow" her from Paramount for his new cop show. The Mod Squad was actually Peggy Lipton's second regular TV series, after debuting on The John Forsythe Show in 1965. Peggy took a few years off from acting after the show was canceled, re-emerging in 1979 for the TV movie The Return of the Mod Squad. She had supporting roles in several movies in the 80s and in 1990 she returned to series television for the hit show Twin Peaks, playing Norma Jennings. She has worked steadily since, mostly in TV movies like 1994's Deadly Vows, and with small roles in feature films like 1997's The Postman. Last year she took on the role of Gloria Steinem in the miniseries The 70s, as well as roles in The , Skipped Parts & Jackpot. She was Brooke McQueen's mother on the WB show Popular. Peggy was married to Quincy Jones from 1974 to 1989 and they have two daughters, Kidada, an actress/model and Rashida an actress.moreless -
James Marshall
James Hurley
Born James David Greenblatt on January 2, 1967 in Queens, New York, James grew up in Bergen County New Jersey. At the age of fifteen he moved with his family to the Los Angeles area where he attended Santa Monica High School. Once high school was over, James attended acting classes and struggled to break into Hollywood. His father (producer, William Greenblatt) offered to help James, but he didn't want to take the nepotism route. Coming from a family of entertainers (his mother a former radio city music hall Rockette and his sister a musician) he had Hollywood in site. Accepting small acting parts, working as a messenger, as well as at a pizzeria, James felt the pressures of the business. James made a big splash when director David Lynch cast Marshall for his new series entitled Twin Peaks. Playing the moody, biker boyfriend of Laura Palmer thrust James Marshall into the living rooms of millions and introduced the new actor to a captivated audience. By early 1990 his career took a turn onto the silver screen with an appearance in the movie Cadence, starring Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen. This lead to his first starring role with a major movie studio. The movie was the 1992 boxing drama, Gladiator. Three months of rigorous training was put into the role before even getting to the set. The buzz on Marshall was so great that director Rob Reiner cast James and co-star Cuba Gooding Jr. in his upcoming film A Few Good Men. The movie was an excellent springboard towards a busy acting career. James has continued working steadily in television movies and features. In May of 1998 James married actress Renee Allman. They have appeared together in the features Criminal Affairs and Doomsday Man. Together they have one child, James David, who was born in January of 2002. The happy family live together in the Los Angeles area. James continues to work on a host a television movies and film projects. Visit his official website at www.james-marshall.netmoreless -
Everett McGill
Ed Hurley
Presskit biography from the film "The People Under the Stairs" 1991 : Everett McGill, born in Florida and raised in a rural community outside Kansas City, never expected to become an actor. A self-described kid who tended to get into trouble, his acceptance of a role in a school production as a favour to a teacher turned his life around. After performing on guitar and keyboard in a hard-driving rhythm-and-blues band for several years, McGill returned to acting, studying at the University of Missouri, then the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he attended "every attic and cellar production I could see." Returning to New York, McGill performed in numerous off-Broadway shows before winning the coveted role of the "Equus," a part he played for more than 500 performances. He also appeared in leading roles on Broadway in "A Texas Trilogy" and Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" McGill made his motion picture debut in "Union City," then received his big film break when he was cast as the starring lead in Jean-Jacques Annaud's pre-historic classic "Quest For Fire." His major films since include "Dune," "Field of Honor," "Licence to Kill," "Iguana," and "Jezebel, It Was You." On television, McGill is well known to audiences as the quietly compelling, sympathetic gas station operator on "Twin Peaks." Additionally, he has appeared prominently in "Tour of Duty," "Werewolf," "Three on a Match," and "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story." An Avid outdoorsman and backpacker, McGill lives with his wife in northern Arizona where he maintains a home recording studio and collects Indian pottery. ------------------------------------------------------ Tall, muscular American actor. First gained attention from his memorable portrayal of Noah, the leader of the Caveman tribe in Guerre du feu, La (1981). With his rugged physique, cold, sinister stare and husky, whispering voice, Everett became usually memorable and well cast in villainous roles, such as the double-crossing FBI Agent Killifer in Licence to Kill (1989) and as Penn, the terrorist leader in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). Height: 6'5moreless -
Jack Nance
Pete Martell
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Kimmy Robertson
Lucy Moran
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Ray Wise
Leland Palmer
Ray Wise began his career with a series of supporting roles. Wise played Jamie Rollins on the CBS soap opera Love of Life. Shortly after, he made his TV-movie debut on PBS in 1978 in the movie "Tartuffe". Wise's big-screen debut came in 1982 when he played a scientist in Wes Craven's Swamp Thing. Wise's next big move was securing a recurring role on the TV series, Twin Peaks as the father of murder victim Laura Palmer. After his time on Twin Peaks, Wise moved between television series making numerous guest appearances on top shows. He also made an appearance in the video game series Command & Conquer. In 2007, Wise finally landed a starring role when he was tapped to play the Devil on the CW comedy Reaper.moreless -
Joan Chen
Jocelyn (Josie) Packard
Joan Chen, actress, director, producer and screenwriter, was born Chn Chng on April 26, 1961 in Shanghai, China. She was discovered at the age 14 by Jiang Qing, wife of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, because of her marksmanship on the school's rifle range. In 1975, she entered the Actor's Training Program at the Shanghai Film Studio. In 1977, Joan was discovered by film director Xie Jin who chose her for a starring role in his film Youth. At age 17, she was approved for early acceptance into the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages where she studied English. Chen moved to the USA at age 20. She attended college at the State University of New York at New Paltz and later enrolled at California State University, Northridge near Los Angeles, California to study filmmaking.moreless -
Piper Laurie
Catherine Martell
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Eric Da Re
Leo Johnson
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Harry Goaz
Deputy Andy Brennan
Harry Goaz went to the University of Texas, and after graduating, he became interested in acting and moved to Los Angeles, where he studied acting. He got a job as a limo driver, and he met David Lynch while driving him to a memorial tribute to Roy Orbison. Lynch subsequently cast Goaz as Deputy Andy Brennan on the TV series Twin Peaks.moreless -
Michael Horse
Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill
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Sheryl Lee
Laura Palmer/Madeleine Ferguson
Born in in Germany and raised in Colorado, this blond beauty began acting in school plays while attending Fairview High School. At the end of her studies, Sheryl attended many dramatic arts schools such as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, summer programs at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the National Conservatory Theater in Denver. Afterwards, Lee pursued stage work in Seattle, where she met director David Lynch, who cast her as Laura Palmer, one of the most popular character in television history, in the cult TV series Twin Peaks (1990). She later worked with Lynch again in Wild at Heart (1990) and resurrected Laura Palmer in Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992). Since then, Lee has made a decent but discrete career in film and television, starring in John Carpenter's Vampires and television show L.A. Doctors. In 2005, Sheryl made a major comeback on television as she portrayed the role of Peyton Sawyer's estranged and cancer-stricken mother on One Tree Hill. After her stint with the CW drama, she again played a dying mother on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.moreless -
Kenneth Welsh
Windom Earle
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Russ Tamblyn
Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
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Dan O'Herlihy
Andrew Packard
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Grace Zabriskie
Sarah Palmer
"Amazing Grace" Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1938. Grace wrote her own original poetry, and then performed at coffee shops and various artist-hangouts in Atlanta. Grace was also a wonderful silk-screen printmaker. She moved to Hollywood and made her acting debut in Norma Rae (1979). Grace was so successful in her acting profession, she went on to appear in over 80 movies. She gave a wonderful performance as Mrs. Ames in "East of Eden" (1981), the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. Grace appeared in the highly acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) and in Big Easy, The (1987) set in her beloved New Orleans. She worked with producer and director David Lynch, and was a series regular in the cult favorite "Twin Peaks" (1990) portraying Sarah Palmer, the part with which she is most often identified, and appeared in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) the same year. She has played a wide variety of roles, and gave a terrific performance in the Oscar-nominated Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); and showed great character depth as the lonely and despondent widow in Passion of Darkly Noon, The (1995). Grace's more recent roles were in the zany film Sparkler (1998) and in the big-name star feature House on Turk Street, The (2002), which is based on a short story by the famous writer Dashiell Hammett. She is a woman of many talents; currently creating her own original paintings, unique sculptures and woodwork art which can be viewed in Los Angeles galleries. Her visual arts, which include creating lamps or "sculptures with light" as she calls them, are available from the L.A.-based ArtHaus.moreless -
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Mary Jo Deschanel
Eileen Hayward
Mary Jo Deschanel was born Mary Jo Weir in 1945. In July of 1972 she married cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and together they have two children. Emily and Zooey are both actresses like their mother. -
Don S. Davis
Major Briggs
Don S. Davis was a character actor, painter, designer, woodcarver, former theater professor, and was a Captain in the United States Army during the sixties. Don was born and raised in a small town in the Missouri Ozarks. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree with double major in theater and art from Southwest Missouri State College in 1965. He then served three years on active duty in the United States Army.
Upon his release from active duty in the military Don entered the University of Southern Illinois, in Carbondale, Illinois, to work toward a Masters Degree in theater. Don received his Masters Degree in 1970. He then taught for a number of years before returning to Southern Illinois University to complete the coursework for a PhD in Theater. Don received his PhD in 1982. Don's first love throughout his life has been the visual arts.
He grew up drawing, painting, and creating sculptural constructions. When Don was a small boy his father, M.T. Davis, owned a lumberyard and supported Don's interests by setting up a functional woodworking shop for his son's use in the basement of the family home. He also took the time to teach Don to whittle and carve wood. The constant positive encouragement of Don's creative endeavours by his family made it a natural progression for Don to continue to be vitally interested in creating paintings, drawings, carvings and design projects as he grew into adulthood. As a result Don spent nearly twenty years applying and developing all those interests while earning his living as a collegiate scene designer and augmenting his income with art sales and various design commissions.
Don began working in the film industry while teaching at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in the early 1980s. He left teaching to pursue acting full time in 1987. Don has appeared in numerous feature films including Alaska, A League of Their Own, Needful Things, Look Who's Talking, Con Air and Best of Show. He has had feature roles in over thirty made for television movies including In Cold Blood, The Ranger, The Cook and The Hole in the Sky, Columbo: A Bird in Hand, and the mini-series Atomic Train.
Davis died on June 29, 2008. The cause of death was reported to be a massive heart attack
Don's television credits also include his series regular role as General George Hammond in Stargate SG-1, and recurring roles in The X-Files where he played father to Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully, Twin Peaks where he played Major Briggs. Don has guest starred in dozen of television series including Northern Exposure, L.A. Law, Knots Landing, Twenty-One Jump Street, Wiseguy and MacGyver.moreless -
Chris Mulkey
Hank Jennings
Chris is an actor, writer, producer and musician, born in Viroqua, Wisconsin in 1948. Chris attended college and went on to work at the Children's Theater Company in Minnesota. Whilst working there Chris wrote, produced and starred in two films. His acting career took off and he has been working hard ever since on both television (Twin Peaks, Any Day Now, Cold Case, amongst others) and on the big screen in movies such as Dreamscape and Behind Enemy Lines. Chris is a talented singer and musician and has released several music albums including It's About the Heart and Out Among 'Em.moreless -
Kimmy Robertson
Lucy Moran
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Harold Smith
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Campy, Demonic Resurrection, Family Tragedy, Girl Next Door, Good Vs. Evil
