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Sheryl Lee

Birthday:

22 April 1967

Birth Name:

Sheryl Lynn Lee

Height:

166 cm

Biography

[on Homage (1995)] It went to Sundance [Robert Redford's influential film festival], it did great at Sundance, and we heard it was going to get released. Nothing ever happened, and the next thing I know, someone said they saw it in the video store - (New York Daily News, 1997).

[on Mother Night (1996)] It's very heartbreaking [the way the film quickly vanished last year], because that was another creative experience for me that was so fulfilling and so rewarding. I did believe in that film. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[on David (1997)] I had always wanted to do a Bible story my whole life, ever since I was little. That was a huge dream for me. So I went in and had a meeting [with TNT] and said, 'I want to do a Bible story. I don't care what type of role, or whether it's big or small, or what story. I just want to be involved. Two years later, there I was, playing Bathsheb...

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[on her role in Backbeat (1994)] One of my all-time favorites. I was so honored to play her [Astrid, girlfriend of original Beatle Stu Sutcliffe], and to explore that world. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[recalling her work on Salome] That is the only experience I have had this far in my life that I wish to God I could go back and do again. I feel that I was, for me, too young and too inexperienced and never really got over being intimidated by the whole thing Broadway, Pacino, the whole bigness of it. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[recalling filming with David Lynch on Halloween] Spooky things happen around David Lynch. It's not like they're intentional. They just happen. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)

[on David Lynch] If you surrender to wherever it is he's taking you, than by the time he says action, you realize that he has taken you somewhere. He's taken you exactly where he wants to take you and he starts the scene from that place. It's like a brushstroke that he's just painted across you. (Rue Morgue, 2014)

[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] One reason I wanted to do this film is sometimes I feel defensive about my characters. At fifteen everyone loved Laura - she was the homecoming queen and sweet - and then people started hearing that she had done coke and had a lot of sex and walked on the wild side. But people don't take that path unless they're in p...

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[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] We're not censored: Laura did walk on the wild side, and it's a lot wilder in the film. And I'm alive; that's a huge advantage right there. (Time International, 1992)

[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I had a very difficult time feeling finished when the show went off the air and allowing it to just go, and this helped me. It was a wonderful exploration to be able to go back in there and do all the things that people had talked about that Laura had done for so long.

[on how Laura Palmer's complexity subverts expectations] Women and actress, in general, they tend to want to put us in a box and say we are this and we are only that one thing. And if we go outside of that box or outside of the comfort zone of others, then you know that's not okay. And what I love about David and several other directors that I've had the good fortune to work with, is that they don't want to put the woman in the box and they don't want to put the character in a box. So you have room to be multi layered and multidimensional, like we are as humans, as women. (Meet the Lady, 2012)

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[on the creative process] For me, logically and with my mind, I can sort of develop certain aspects of a character, but when it comes to playing that character, there's a surrendering that has to happen, a letting go. I have to get out of the way so that the energy of that character can express itself through me, and that is not a logical mind process. (Rue ...

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[on Laura Palmer] I have a deep place inside me that is Laura's place. I felt close to Laura very quickly after I started thinking about who she was. Even though she's dead, my feelings for her have continued to grow. I know it sounds weird, but as Laura's secrets become known and people start saying bad things about her, I get very defensive. She had her re...

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I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one. (People, 1991)

[on directors] Some directors work from a very intuitive place, some are more technical, some really communicate with the actors, some trust the actors to do what they know, so, some directors are very funny, some are shy, some are more visual, some are more emotional, so, we got to work with all kinds of, and again, just all great, I think you can always le...

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[on music] I could just hear five notes of Laura's Theme and I was connected to Laura. Anywhere, anytime that I needed to be connected to that character I would have that music with me during filming and everything. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on singing] anytime you get to do something as an artist that is in the medium that you're not usually working in, it can be really delightful to be able to express yourself in a different way. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

I mean for me because of playing Laura, I always felt the darker tone. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on dying hair for a role] This is such a trivial thing, but changing your hair color, I could write a whole paper about how the world treats you differently as a woman with different hair color! It's really true, and I've had my hair almost every single color now for different roles and you are treated so differently by society depending on your hair color. It's fascinating, It's so trivial you think we can't possible be so shallow as a culture, unfortunately, it's pretty shallow! (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

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[on David Lynch] He's been one of my greatest teachers. Creative teacher, life teacher, acting teacher, he's an incredible man. To able to work with him and his team and his group of writers and actors and directors, you know, everybody, set designers, everybody who he surrounds himself with are so inspiring creatively. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on the iconic image of Laura Palmer] Well, it's not that I'm not fond of it, I can appreciate the image that is created, but because it's me and I'm dead, it's bizarre! (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on meeting Patti Bailey to prepare for her role in Love, Lies and Murder (1991) ] I have so much respect for her courage. I have no idea what it must feel like to have your life portrayed on national television this way, the most personal parts of your life. I certainly wouldn't do it. (Los Angeles Times, 1991)

[on meeting Patti Bailey to prepare for her role in Love, Lies and Murder (1991) ] I wanted to meet her. Before I met her I made sure that it was OK with her, because if it wasn't I wouldn't have pushed it. But I just thought, you know, I would want to know who was playing me, and meet them and talk to them. (Los Angeles Times, 1991)

[on having dreams as a character] I always think of it as a green light when that happens. A sign that subconsciously, I'm opening up to the character. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)

[on her wish to star in a comedy] when you look at my body of work, there's not a lot of comedy in there. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[on turning 30] It's a marker for me. Now I get to look back at a whole decade. (New York Daily News, 1997)

I can't imagine doing something that I wouldn't believe in. Everything inside of me locks up when I think of that. (Daily News, 1997)

[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] For Laura to go through all the things that you only heard about on TV was very interesting. People don't take the path Laura took unless they're in great pain. So for me, the film wasn't necessarily about defending her - it was about showing that every one of us has the potential to walk on the wild side. (Entertain...

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I'm on my eighth year of making these types of choices, and I'm kind of trying to reassess everything and figure out if I've been working in my own best interests. Maybe I need to be a little more open-minded. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I was able to do things I never thought I could. It gave me an incredible sense of freedom. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)

I love the films that I've worked on and the characters that I've played; I've learned so much from all of them. At the same time, I've done a lot of work that has never been seen. (New York Daily News, 1997)

[on her role as Salome] The whole sexuality of the piece has been difficult for me. (Daily News, 1992)

[on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I got to finish the circle was the most important thing to me because, I knew who Laura was. I felt her. But I never got to really play her before, even though I knew her and what her story was. So, it really did help me come full circle to finally give voice to her and express her truth and her story was really impo...

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[on her role as Salome] But the hardest thing has to with chopping off the head. To find the part of myself that could be obsessed, angry, resentful or revengeful enough to have a head chopped off is digging in there pretty deep. It is not a comfortable feeling to live with every day. (Daily News, 1992)

So many amazing women have lived on this planet whose stories have never been told. I want to find a way to get those stories told. (Reading Eagle, 1995)

[on her role on Twin Peaks (1990)] Emotionally, it never left me that that sort of stuff happens in real life as well. It's heartbreaking. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

When I die and see Oscar Wilde, I want to ask him his opinion, what he intended Salome's dance to be. I'd love to know. (New York Magazine, 1992)

Playing a character like Laura Palmer, your brain does strange things to you. I still have nightmares in which I'm riding with Bob on an old abandoned train. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)

I tend to think a lot of my parents and how difficult it must have been for them to watch. God bless them for continuing to support me as an actor knowing that was my first job of all things, you know, that they had to watch their daughter go through that. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on difficult scenes] I'm very aware of when I'm working on material like that, you know, I get to go home at the end of my day and wash of everything and take a shower and try and get some sleep, I usually can't sleep after those kinds of days. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on Laura Palmer] That darkness was never not there for me, for my character and the double life that was going on, was, I mean that's dark. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on Laura Palmer] I can't even sometimes tell the difference between the Pilot and the film, because to me, my job was to tell Laura's story and to tell Maddy's story. So, those all run together as one story. I don't differentiate Laura's story as the film and the television show. To me, it's all the story of Laura. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on David Lynch] I don't ever remember a lot of explanations for anything. I sort of remember him saying things like "Sometimes life doesn't make sense, why should we expect art to?" I remember him saying things like that, which was very freeing artistically to me. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on playing dead] For me, playing a dead person really was a meditation on whatever wanted to reveal itself in that space for me, I felt like I had to slow my internal system down a lot in order to able to lay there that still for that many hours at a time. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on the enduring popularity of Twin Peaks (1990)] when people experience something, whether it's a song or a television show or a film or a book, any piece of art that they're experiencing it for what it is. But then, it also connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life. (dugpa, 2010)

[on playing dead] it really was an opportunity sort of meditate on death and I don't mean that in a morbid way, I mean that in an absolute way. (Daily Actor, 2010)

[on expectations for Twin Peaks (1990) ] I wish I'd had a handbook at the time to know how to get through all that craziness, but I didn't. I was winging it. (Daily Actor, 2010)

[on living in a room at the Chateau Marmont during the filming of Love, Lies and Murder (1991) ] I'm glad I had it. I don't think I was very pleasant to be around while we were filming. It was extremely difficult to leave the part at the door. I don't know that I ever did. I don't know if it's behind me yet. (Los Angeles Times, 1991)

[on meeting Patti Bailey to prepare for her role in Love, Lies and Murder (1991) ] I just care so much about the woman that I'm playing. (Los Angeles Times, 1991)

Society has a fascination with death. I mean, if Laura Palmer had lived, I don't think half as many people would know who she was. So I can understand that. There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die? (Los...

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[on her frequency of appearing nude] I hate it. It's very uncomfortable to be in a room full of strangers, in bed naked, with a person you barely know. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)

[on nude scenes] Getting asked to play Astrid in Backbeat (1994), for example, was for me a phenomenal honor and creatively such a joy and so fulfilling. I'm not going to pass on that job just because there were a couple of nude scenes. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

[on career choices] I've had some dry spells; sometimes I'm too picky for my own good. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

[on her work choices] I know that I certainly have thus far not chosen a real mainstream path. (New York Daily News, 1997)

For 2,000 years, women's sexuality has been judged and put to shame-'harlot,' 'whore'. Before that, it was worshiped and respected. (New York Magazine, 1992)

[on Yoga] It is all about discipline and stillness of the mind. It helps your ability to concentrate, your organs, muscles, flexibility, helps you eliminate toxins. On a spiritual level it helps you connect with your higher self. It helps get rid of patterns you set up a long time ago. (Daily News, 1992)

[on her first acting role] The first day of rehearsal something happened. I thought, 'This is it. I've found it' I still get terrified if I have to talk in front of a group of people. By having a character to play, it makes it safer. (Daily News, 1992)

Erotic scenes are actually very funny because they are always very technical. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)

When I was a kid, I begged my parents to take me to the circus because I loved to see the elephants. I had no idea they were treated so poorly. These amazing creatures should be walking 20 miles a day, but instead they're locked up... they can't even turn around. (PETA's Animal Times, 1999)

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us. (PETA's Animal Times, 1999)

It's still difficult for me to watch my work. And there's still a sense of "Will they like it, and what if they don't?" But ultimately what's important to me is whether or not I grow as a human being during the process. What happens after that is in God's hands.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

But ultimately what's important to me is whether or not I grow as a human being during the process. What happens after that is in God's hands.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, This I will do and this I won't. For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I never really thought of Laura as sexual because she's a victim of abuse. Sex and love have completely different meanings for her.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I had a brilliant doctor tell me that the only part of an actor that knows that they're acting is their mind. (Rue Morgue, 2014)

I was there and I filmed it and I brought whatever I could to it, but it's almost like, I painted a painting and gave that painting to somebody else and the painting lived on, but I went ahead and died. It's that piece of art that lives on, and I was fortunate to be a part of that piece of art, but that it's not me. (Rue Morgue, 2014)

You don't want to open up the Yellow Pages and look for a tantric sex teacher. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character. I'm interested in that journey and that's the thing that keeps me in this business. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

[on being an actress] I wanted to get away from myself. And in the end it did nothing but bring me right back to myself. It's the divine cosmic joke. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)

[on recycling] We all have two hands, we can pick up at least two pieces of litter a day. If everybody just picked up at least two pieces a litter a day that they see on the side of the street that alone would make such a difference in our world. (dugpa, 2010)

[on death] I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive. I read a wonderful quote the other day that said death is like taking off a tight shoe. And I think that's brilliant. We're sort of stuck in these bodies here trying to deal, and that kind of freedom of taking off a tight shoe is truly what I believe death will be. (L...

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The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

I've often said that in acting school they teach you how to develop a character and how to bring in a character. But nobody teaches you how to let go. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)

[on playing Katrina in Vampires (1998)] I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements. It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascina...

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[on working with David Lynch on Twin Peaks (1990) and Wild at Heart (1990)] I've been wrapped in plastic on a beach, I've imitated a bird [Waldo], I've come back as my lookalike cousin, and for Wild at Heart (1990) I hung 60 feet above the ground by piano wire to play a good witch who floats down the sky. All I can think is 'What's next?' (TV Guide, November...

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[on playing Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I felt really great about the decision because I never felt complete with Laura. I never got to be Laura alive, just in flashbacks, so it allowed me to come full circle with the character. Laura always had a tremendous amount of life, because everybody talked about her, yet I didn't get to do ...

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[on playing Laura Palmer] I have had many people, victims of incest, approach me since the film [Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me] was released, so glad that it had been made because it helped them to release a lot. And so for me, it doesn't matter what the critics say - if one person walks away having released something, then it's worth seeing. (Empire, Decem...

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