Grace Zabriskie

At 83 years old, Grace Zabriskie has this physical status:

Grace Zabriskie (born Grace Caplinger, 1941) is an American actress.

Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990) and its film prequel Twin Peaks (1991), Lois Henrickson in Big Love (1992), as well as in cult films such as two of David Lynch's films: Juana Durango in Wild at Heart (1990) and Visitor #1 in Inland Empire (2006).

Nickel Mountain (1984), Child's Play 2 (1990), and The Grudge (2004) were among other film roles.

She is also known for her appearances in Seinfeld and Charmed.

Early life

Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the niece of Marion Grace (née Zabriskie), of Wyckoff, New Jersey, and Roger Thomas "Tom" Caplinger. Her mother had distant Polish and Dutch ancestry, and she was a niece of James Zabriskie, a 19th-century railroad industrialist and early pioneer of California. During her youth, Zabriskie said that Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote visited her family. Cafe Lafitte, Exile's most popular French quarter gay bar, was her father's.

Zabriskie was one of Kerry Thornley's New Orleans neighbors in the early 1960s. Thornley began working on a book about her called Can Grace Come Out and Play? Thornley's later reports that she had a "eight-year-long, off-again affair/ feud/ethnic unraveling" with her, although Zabriskie described it as "four and a half minutes in bed" after a discussion on the exclusion of sex from their friendship, which was shared with Zabriskie's then-husband Rob -- as being "irrational."

Lane Caplinger, her sister, served as a typist in New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's office. Caplinger is accused of secretly producing all five copies of the Principia Discordia's first edition in 1965.

Personal life

Zabriskie and her then-husband, Rob, "had an intense bond" in their early teens, which "turned into more of a family relationship between" Zabriskie and Kerry Thornley; this relationship was "based on an intense shared love for and admiration for Ayn Rand's philosophy.

Helen, who became an actress, and Marion Lane, a painter, Zabriskie is the mother of two children; Helen, who became an actress, and Marion Lane, a painter. Helen died of Hodgkin's disease in 1993. Marion died of cancer at the age of 56.

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Career

After making her major film debut in Norma Rae, Zabriskie continued to appear in scores of other films, including the 1981 edition of John Steinbeck's East of Eden. In An Officer and a Gentleman's mother in An Officer and a Gentleman, Heather Langenkamp's mother in Nickel Mountain, and Paul Le Mat's mother in The Burning Bed (starring Farrah Fawcett). She was involved in Knots Landing's fifth season finale, but she was a minor but important part.

She appeared in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy and as the ill-fated orphanage owner Grace Poole in Child's Play 2. The Passion of Darkly Noon and Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991 film adaptations.

Zabriskie is perhaps best known for her television appearances. Sarah Palmer, the eerily psychic mother of the deceased Laura Palmer, appeared on David Lynch's Twin Peaks and its spin-off film, Fire Walk with Me.

Zabriskie appeared in Lynch's Wild at Heart, most as the twin sister of a character played by Isabella Rossellini, an actress eleven years her junior. In the Inland Empire in 2006, David Lynch portrayed her as a sinister Polish neighbor.

Mrs. Ross, a recurring character on the sitcom Seinfeld, may best be remembered as Zabriskie. Susan Ross, George Costanza's fiancée, died after licking cheap envelope adhesive when mailing out her wedding invitations. On the series, Zabriskie's husband, who also appeared in a recurring role, was played by Warren Frost, her former Twin Peaks co-star.

Spence Olchin's emotionally troubled and alcoholic mother of Spence Olchin (played by Patton Oswalt) appeared in the CBS sitcom "S'ain't Valentine's" episode "S'ain't Valentine's). Although Veronica Olchin will appear in the series again, Zabriskie will not portray her again since Anne Meara took her place. Lois Henrickson appeared in Big Love, an HBO drama series that critically explored the topic of polygamy, and she appeared in Aaron Spelling's series "The Crone" twice.

She has worked in radio, and has collaborated with radio dramatist/monologist Joe Frank on several occasions. She speaks about her childhood in New Orleans, with a focus on her father in one episode of Frank's "Home (Original)."

Zabriskie appeared in the 2004 American version of The Grudge, in which she played a senile elderly woman alert to the strange happenings in her household.

In 2020, she appeared in the music video for Grouplove's "Youth" in the movie. Christopher Blauvelt's film is directed by Christopher Blauvelt.

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