Sheryl Lee
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Sheryl Lee was born on April 22, 1967 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. She is a German born American actress.
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.
Then she moved to Seattle where she was able to find some roles in theater plays.This is also where she met director David Lynch who asked her to audition for Twin Peaks and chose her for the role of Laura Palmer, and for the role of Madeleine Ferguson, later on, after the pilot episode was shot.
After the success of Twin Peaks, which made her famous throughout the world, she got the leading role in Love, lies and murder, an NBC mini-series and the small part of The Good Witch in Lynch's Wild at Heart.
In 1992, she had the chance to work with Al Pacino in Salome, the Oscar Wilde theater play.
Sheryl Lee played in movies such as the Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me which remains her biggest performance to this day, Backbeat, Bliss, This world Then the Fireworks and John Carpenter's Vampires as Katrina, a beautiful prostitute who becomes a vampire.
She also briefly appeared in some TV shows (Red Shoe Diaries, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman) and played the part of Dr Sarah Church in L.A. Doctors. Her last credits include TV series "One Tree Hill" (2005-2006) and "Dirty Sexy Money" (2007).
Lee dated David Duchovny. She is divorced from Jesse Diamond, a photographer and son of singer and songwriter Neil Diamond.
Filmography
- "Dirty Sexy Money" (3 episodes, 2007)
- "State of Mind" (1 episode, 2007)
- "CSI: NY" (1 episode, 2006)
- The Secrets of Comfort House (2006) (TV)
- "House M.D." (1 episode, 2006)
- "One Tree Hill" (9 episodes, 2005-2006)
- Paradise, Texas (2005)
- "Desperate Housewives" (1 episode)
- "Without a Trace" (1 episode, 2003)
- "Kingpin" (2003) (mini) TV mini-series
- Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
- Hitched (2001) (TV)
- Kiss the Sky (1999)
- "L.A. Doctors" (22 episodes, 1998-1999)
- Angel's Dance (1999)
- Vampires (1998)
- Dante's View (1998)
- The Blood Oranges (1997)
- This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
- Bliss (1997)
- David (1997) (TV)
- Mother Night (1996)
- Notes from Underground (1995)
- Follow the River (1995) (TV)
- Fall Time (1995)
- Homage (1995)
- "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" (1 episode, 1994)
- Don't Do It (1994)
- The Can (1994)
- Guinevere (1994) (TV)
- Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica (1994) (V)
- Backbeat (1994)
- "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1 episode, 1994)
- Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (1993) (V)
- Jersey Girl (1992)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
- "Red Shoe Diaries" (1 episode, 1992)
- "Twin Peaks" (18 episodes, 1990-1991)
- Love, Lies and Murder (1991) (TV)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- I Love You to Death (1990)
- The Pink Chiquitas (1987)
