Sherilyn Fenn

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Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn; February 1, 1965) is an American actress.

Audrey Horne, of Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017), for whom she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award, she came to fame for her appearance.

She is also known for her appearances in Wild at Heart (1990), Of Mice and Men (1992), Boxing Helena (1993), and Rude Awakening (1998–2001).

Early life

Sheryl Ann Fenn was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 1, 1965. She comes from a family of musicians: her mother, Arlene Quatro, is a keyboardist, Suzi Quatro, her grandfather is a jazz guitarist, and Leo Fenn, her uncle, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies. Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side, as well as an Irish and French descent on her father's side. She was raised Catholic.

Before the family settled in Los Angeles, where she was 17 years old, Fenn traveled frequently with her mother and two older brothers. Fenn dropped out after her junior year and decided to pursue acting rather than starting a new school again, enrolling at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Personal life

Fenn dated pop singer Prince for a short time in 1985 and then Johnny Depp the following year; their friendship lasted many years.

Fenn married guitarist-songwriter Toulouse Holliday, whom she met on the set of Three of Hearts in 1994.

Fenn, a 1993 and Christian girl, was the mother of two boys: Myles, born in 1993 and Christian in 2007.

In 2014, Fenn began practicing Transcendental Meditation.

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Acting career

Fenn began her work with a variety of B-movies, including The Wild Life (1984, opposite Chris Penn), the 1986 horror film Thrashin' (opposite Josh Brolin and Pamela Gidley), and the 1987 horror film Meridian, inspired by the Beast and the Beast. She appeared in the 1985 cult teen-comedy Just One of the Guys, in which she attempts to seduce a teen girl disguised as a boy, played by Joyce Hyser. In the 1985 short student film Dummies, directed by Laurie Frank for the American Film Institute, Fenn appeared alongside Johnny Depp. Fenn and Depp were together for three and a half years before getting engaged. "Blindsided," Depp's season-one episode of 21 Jump Street in 1987.

Many of these early films have been sexploitation films, according to Fenn, "where producers attempted to coerce [her] to appear naked after the contract was signed." She explained: In a February 1993 interview, she outlined: i'm a student at the University of On a February 1993 interview she said, '"It's a pleasure to speak.

In Zalman King's ess dramatic thriller Two Moon Junction, Fenn landed her first starring role as an engaged heiress to an old Southern family, Richard Tyson's falls for carnival worker Richard Tyson, who was a victim of carnival worker Richard Tyson, who died for him for a year after. "I was so embarrassed about how it turned out that I went into a cocoon for a year." Junction was supposed to be Fenn's biggest break, but it became another exploitation film.

Fenn decided to take control of her destiny after these film experiences. "I decided to be more myself rather than being coerced into what other people wanted me to be." It's frightening how little imagination some people in this industry have."

When Fenn was portrayed by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the fiery, impulsive Audrey Horne, a high school femme fatale, in the TV series Twin Peaks, she made her most well-known appearance and left an impression on the world. Audrey's character developed from 1990 to 1991, and she was one of the most popular with followers, particularly for her unrequited admiration for FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and her 1950s style (with her saddle shoes, plaid skirts, and tight sweaters). 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, Fenn earned cult status. "With Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks soared and effortlessly destroyed every other show's sexuality," said James Marshall, one of her cast members. "Audrey is a girl-child who dresses like the teenagers in the 1950s and shows her body," Fenn said in September 1990. But she's still daddy's little girl at the same time. Audrey Briggs (played by Dana Ashbrook) and John Justice Wheeler were paired in the show's second season, when the idea of combining Audrey and Cooper was scrapped.

About Audrey, Fenn said:

David Lynch, a twin Peaks' pilot episode, gave her a small role in Wild at Heart as a teen injured in a car wreck, obsessed by the contents of her purse, alongside Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. At the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, the film received the Golden Palm Award. "Only think of this: bobby pins, lipstick, wallet, comb, and that's it"'s headed." It's very abstract." "I just imagined her being able to do this," Lynch of her scene said, "she's like a broken China doll." "Sherilyn Fenn's ponytail is the most interesting one," Lynch, who used that term in his essay, wrote, "She's a mysterious girl, and I suspect actresses like hers, where there's something hiding underneath the surface." "He's very inventive and unafraid of taking risks," she said of the director. "I really admire him." He's wonderful." In the December 1990 edition of Playboy magazine, Fenn appeared on the front page and in a nude pictorial.

Billie Frechette, John Dillinger's girlfriend, appeared in ABC's 1991 gangster TV film Dillinger opposite Mark Harmon, and she directed the neo-noir black comedy Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel, in which she played a sultry, seductive femme fatale.

After Twin Peaks, Fenn continued to concentrate on broadening her range of roles and was determined not to avoid typecasting. "They've given me every variation of Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as amusing," she said. She turned down the Audrey Horne spinoff series that was on sale to her, but unlike most of the cast members, she did not return to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" in 1992, although she was still shooting Of Mice and Men.

With her Old Hollywood looks and two nominations (Emmy and Golden Globe) for Twin Peaks, as well as the pictorial in Playboy, Fenn was promoted to stardom and became a major sex symbol. When promoting Twin Peaks in October 1990, Fenn was featured on Rolling Stone magazine, as well as Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle. In 1990, Us Magazine named her one of the "10 Most Beautiful Women in the World," and 1991 People magazine named her as one of the world's "50 Most Beautiful Women." She photographed herself as a classic Hollywood femme fatale for photographer Steven Meisel's 1991-1992 Dolce & Gabbana campaign, in which he shot her as a classical Hollywood femme fatale. Photographer George Hurrell created a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts, and Sean Penn in 1992. He recreated his 1930s style in these portraits, with Fenn posing in costumes, hairstyle, and make-up of the period.

In 1991, Hollywood acting coach Roy London selected her to star in his first directorial debut, Diary of a Hitman, in which she portrays a young mother determined to shield her child from hit man Forest Whitaker. According to Fenn, the turning point in her career came when she first visited London in 1990. She attributes her to his instilling hope and a new sense of excitement.

"You're passionate about finding the careers that interest you on some level, and that can help you grow on some level," she said. "A lot of the belief that acting should be about an art form rather than mass entertainment and celebrity is at the root of Fenn's business attitude," Jessica Sully wrote in Australian magazine Movie. "I try to keep myself focused," Fenn said. "I don't go to parties and all that stuff." I don't believe being seen or being in the right place will make me a better actor. I am concerned about my work and try to do what's right in my heart." "One of the keys to understanding Fenn is to understand that she's actually talking about herself," Mike Bygrave wrote in Sky Magazine. Fenn was keen to perform roles that might have ruined her sex-symbol image. "People who think they know me will be shocked to learn that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex," she said. Fenn requested a no-nudity clause in her employment after her twin Peaks. She returned to independent films, choosing a variety of and bizarre roles.

Gary Sinise's film version of Of Mice and Men, in which she played a sad and lonely country wife, and she desperately wanted to talk to someone, opposite Sinise and John Malkovich. "Sherilyn's one of the reasons we received such ovation at Cannes," Sinise explained. "In this film, she's like a terribly sad angel." Sherilyn says he opposed to her simply being a sexy and pretty girl." "Gary Sinise was one of the first people who didn't see me like a lot of other people," she said. "It was a wonderful trip." "I adapted the novel and fleshed out my character, and Horton Foote added to it." In John Mackenzie's Ruby, she appeared alongside Danny Aiello and others. Fenn played Sheryl Ann DuJean, a fictitious woman whose composite of many 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 fantastic pair," Mackenzie of Fenn said.

Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin's love interest appeared in Three of Hearts in 1993. The friendship between Fenn and director Yuk Bogayevicz became strained during the shooting as she refused to appear nude in the film.

In Boxing Helena, directed by David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch, another one of her finest film roles was performed. By Julian Sands, who makes her into his personal Venus de Milo in an attempt to capture her, Fenn depicted a narcissistic seductress who is incarcerated and imprisoned. "Society, Hollywood, some guys... they want to wrap women up in a tidy little box," Fenn said of the film. Both Lynch and Fenn were proud of their participation in it, but the film was ultimately a critical and commercial failure. Both women, on the other hand, loved their collaboration. "Sherilyn is an amazing actress, a slew of minerals, and a real powerhouse, and I think people will see a side of her that we've never seen of Sherilyn anywhere else." Lynch of the actress said, "I believe people will see a face of her that we've never seen before." "Jennifer is one of the most thoughtful people I know," Fenn said. "Boxing Helena was... not perfect, but I think for the tale we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good." It was so fascinating to me that society holds us in boxes one way or another."

Armand Assante's devoted secretary and Sean Young's and Kate Nelligan's adversary appeared in Carl Reiner's neo-noir parody Fatal Instinct. She was asked to read for the femme fatale Lola (eventually played by Young), but she chose for the secretary role.

In Showtime's 1995 Biblical television film film Slave of Dreams opposite Adrian Pasdar and Edward James Olmos, Fenn portrayed Potiphar's wife Zulaikha.

She appeared in an episode of Tales from the Crypt directed by Robert Zemeckis, alongside Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow, in which she played Humphrey Bogart, who appeared in the episode via CGI special effects.

Fenn was chosen from a field of more than 100 actors to portray actress Elizabeth Taylor in NBC's 1995 telemovie Elizabeth Taylor. "This is definitely the hardest work I've ever done," Fenn said. "Director Kevin Connor and I arranged a lunch, not an audition," executive producer Lester Persky said. We knew Sherilyn was it ten minutes before our meeting." She has the same striking beauty, and because of that, she's lived some of the things in life and in this industry that make Elizabeth such a fascinating individual." When Fenn accepted the role, she was unaware that Taylor was embroiled in a lawsuit that was designed to prevent both the film's broadcasting and the production of an illegal biography that was based on it. "I am someone who doesn't make decisions lightly at this time in my life," Fenn said of the scandal. I'm not someone who wants to exploit another woman's story or life in any way." "There are stereotypes of what a beautiful woman is," Fenn described. She had a field day with that. She called off a certain period of her life to go on the calling card. I'm sure I've been in touch with it. "You are too pretty," I'm told. Fenn argued for the original screenwriter's attempt to concentrate on Taylor, not the hero: During the shooting, he praised the individual, not the hero:

Fenn suffered from a career stagnation in the late 1990s.

In 1993, she had stated:

"It was crazy, I was really picky," she recalled in 1997. I didn't take advantage of what was normal then, in other words. In addition, she has attributed her inability to adapt to the Hollywood system to her frankness and her aversion to the "Hollywood game."

She then began to alternate TV shows and independent films. In 1996, she appeared in the romantic comedy Lovelife as a waitress aspiring to be a writer and having to rewrite her life. Fenn appeared in the 1997 romantic comedy Just Write, alongside Jeremy Piven, as the aspiration actress of a Hollywood tour bus driver who mistook him for a well-known screenwriter. Both films have been well-received on the festival circuit.

Fenn appeared in "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner," a 1997 episode of Friends, "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner" in Episode 14 of Season 3 of the show, Matt LeBlanc's ex-girlfriend Ginger, who has a prosthetic right leg. "I like the show," she said. I was excited to be a part of it.

She appeared as the female lead in ABC's Prey (originally named Hungry for Life) and appeared in the unaired original pilot episode the previous year. However, after the filming was complete and post-production work was almost finished, the studio's heads abruptly changed direction, replacing Fenn with Debra Messing and reshooting the entire pilot. Prey went on for a season before being cancelled.

Fenn appeared in the 1998 British psychological thriller 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 discover the events that caused his wife's husband to be in coma. Fenn wrote "a touching character piece" while filming in the Isle of Man in late 1997, but he ultimately chose to remain in the United States.

Billie Frank, an alcoholic ex-soap opera actress who tries to go sober and become a writer, gained a renewed sense of excitement when she was showntime's Rude Awakening as Billie Frank, an alcoholic ex-soap opera actress who tries to go sober and become a writer, but she continues to have trouble with her self-destructive habits. Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, and Mario Van Peebles appeared in the series from 1998 to 2001.

She said of it:

In a 1998 episode of Cupid, Fenn met Jeremy Piven as a love affair.

She reteamed with Chris Penn and Adrian Pasdar for Pasdar's first art-house directorial debut, the neo-noir Cement, a contemporary interpretation of Othello in which she played a charming but imprudent wife of a cynical cop Penn. "I play a character that is selfish and sloppy with her sexual energy." I loved the movie and was so excited about it. It has a lot of soul." Farscape's screenwriter, Justin Monjo, wrote the film, which also starred Jeffrey Wright and Henry Czerny, and also starred Jeffrey Wright and Henry Czerny. In addition, she reunited with actor/director Bruce Davison on his 2001 family film, Showtime's Off Season, with Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn, and Adam Arkin.

Fenn appeared in the pilot for ABC's Love, American Style's 1998-1999 television series. Despite the fact that the program wasn't picked up, it did air as a TV special on February 20, 1999. Mariska Hargitay, Steven Eckholdt, Fenn, Jon Tenney, Jon Tenney, Melissa Joan Hart, John Donn, Matt Letscher, Tom Verica, Tom Verica, and writer/producer Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life) include guest stars.

Fenn's has appeared on several episodic television shows since Rude Awakening. She was involved in several initiatives that went unrealized in the middle of the 2000s.

She appeared in The Outer Limits episode "Replica" in 2001, portraying a scientist who had requested to be cloned. In addition, she appeared on Night Visions as a woman who buys a used car possessed by a vengeful spirit. Along with French Stewart, she was cast as a kindergarten tutor for the pilot of the American version of Blind Men's in 2001. However, the pilot was not ordered into a series.

Fenn was one of several former Twin Peaks actors, including Dana Ashbrook and Mädchen Amick, to appear on Dawson's Creek on The WB in 2002. Alex Pearl, the seductive chef of the restaurant where Joshua Jackson works, appeared in three episodes from the fifth season. When Fenn appeared in The WB's Birds of Prey, he was later cast as Harley Quinn, but Mia Sara took over the role soon after. Fenn appeared in the initial pilot episode but had to cancel due to scheduling conflicts, as the show's designers realized that the character Harley Quinn would be a larger part of the film. In a season-four episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit versus both Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, she appeared in Watching Ellie as a manipulative woman.

In the 2002 film Swindle, Fenn played a cop alongside Tom Sizemore. She appeared in the film The United States of Leland, starring Ryan Gosling, in which she played a mother captivated a troubled teenage boy.

In 2003, Fenn appeared on The WB's Gilmore Girls as Sasha, 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 film "Wind a Ticket" that would have starred Milo Ventimiglia, Estes, and Fenn. The network cancelled the project, citing cost issues as a result of filming in Venice, California.

She appeared in showtime's Cavedweller (2004) opposite Kyra Sedgwick and appeared on Fox's Boston Public (2003–2004). Fenn appeared as an amnesiac woman in an episode of NCIS in 2004. She was later cast in Mister Ed's 2004, which Fox network was planned, but Drake Sather, the show's writer/producer, died before the pilot was fired, and the pilot was not broadcasted.

In 2004, Fenn co-starred opposite Traci Lords and Paul Johansson in Emily Skopov's Novel Romance, in which she played a pregnant shop owner who herself cannot have children. She 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 name Fist of the Warrior.

Fenn made a memorable appearance on The 4400 in 2005, as Jean DeLynn Baker, a 4400 who has the ability to produce toxin-emitting spores on her hands. On the final episode of Judging Amy, she appeared as a guest star.

Fenn starred in the Canadian psychological thriller Preumed Dead alongside Duncan Regehr as a detective fighting a missing person case in which you must outwit a crime novelist after finishing the Russia-set action film Treasure Raiders with David Carradine.

In 2006, Fenn reteamed with Amy Sherman-Palladino and reappeared as Anna Nardini, Luke Danes' ex-girlfriend (played by Scott Patterson) and protective father to his daughter's April. Sherman-Palladino had aspired to work with Fenn again, and she created the character of Anna with her in mind, despite the fact that the 2003 Gilmore Girls spin-off project went wrong. Sherman-Palladino explained why she cast Fenn in two separate roles on Gilmore Girls:

However, after Sherman-Palladino left the show, the script was changed—the actresses decided to make her character a villain in a custody battle.

In ABC's 2006 comedy film Three Moons Over Milford, Fenn was cast as the female lead, but she was eventually replaced by Elizabeth McGovern. Fenn had been intended to appear on CBS's 2006 crime drama Smith, but the show was quickly cancelled.

She appeared in The Dukes of Hazzard prequel, Lulu Hogg, in 2007. "It's just a fun silly job," Fenn said. However, she wanted to do so again after working with director Robert Berlinger on Rude Awakening.

Fenn stepped behind the camera for the first time and directed in Pittsburgh a documentary film about child enrichment initiative CosmiKids and its creator, Judy Julin, shortly after shooting The Dukes of Hazzard prequel. She rejoined the company's executive staff in 2007 as executive director of the film and television division. Fenn filmed The Scenesters, a black comedy produced by Los Angeles-based comedy group The Vacationers, which premiered in October 2009. Fenn appeared on In Plain Sight as a lesbian counterfeiter in July 2009.

Fenn appeared on Psych with other Twin Peaks performers on the season 5 episode "Dual Spires" as sultry librarian Maudette Hornsby. Many references to the show were included in this episode, in honor of Twin Peaks. In 2017, she reprised her role as Audrey Horne in the third season of Twin Peaks. She appeared in the American version of Shameless in February 2016.

Fenn wrote and published No Man's Land, a children's book about a boy with autism. Since her second son, Christian, was diagnosed with autism, she was inspired to write the book.

Fenn appeared in S.W.A.T. in 2017. Karen Street, Jim Street's estranged mother, is her name.

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Awards and nominations

• 1990: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Twin Peaks
• 1991: Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV – Twin Peaks