Sheryl Lee
Acting • Born 1967-04-22
Biography
Sheryl Lee (born April 22, 1967) is an American actress. She came to international attention for her performances as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks and in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. She is also known for portraying photographer Astrid Kirchherr in Backbeat (1994) and for her roles in Vampires (1998) and Winter's Bone (2010), as well as for her television series roles in LA Doctors, Kingpin, One Tree Hill and Dirty Sexy Money.
Filmography
73 credits
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Movie • 1992
Laura Palmer
David
Movie • 1997
Batseba
Mother Night
Movie • 1996
Helga Noth / Resi Noth
Backbeat
Movie • 1994
Astrid Kirchherr
Vampires
Movie • 1998
Katrina
Fall Time
Movie • 1995
Patty / Carol
This World, Then the Fireworks
Movie • 1997
Lois Archer
Winter's Bone
Movie • 2010
April
Kiss the Sky
Movie • 1998
Andy
Texas Killing Fields
Movie • 2011
Lucie Sliger
Jersey Girl
Movie • 1992
Tara
Paradise Texas
Movie • 2005
Betsy Kinney
Angel's Dance
Movie • 1999
Angelica Chaste
Notes from Underground
Movie • 1995
Liza
The Blood Oranges
Movie • 1997
Fiona
Guinevere
Movie • 1994
Guinevere
The Secrets of Comfort House
Movie • 2006
Wendy Brown
Children on Their Birthdays
Movie • 2002
Elinore Murphy
Hitched
Movie • 2001
Eve
An Introduction to David Lynch
Movie • 2001
Self
Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Movie • 2001
Self
Postcards From The Cast
Movie • 2001
Self
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Movie • 2007
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Movie • 2014
Laura Palmer
Homage
Movie • 1995
Lucy Samuel
Jackie & Ryan
Movie • 2014
Miriam
Follow The River
Movie • 1995
Mary Ingles
A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
Movie • 2019
Self
I Live Here Now
Movie • 2025
Martha
Bliss
Movie • 1997
Maria
Don't Do It
Movie • 1994
Michelle
Wild at Heart
Movie • 1990
The Good Witch
Dante's View
Movie • 1998
Sam Kingsley
Café Society
Movie • 2016
Karen Stern
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
Movie • 1994
Kate Lyons (archive footage)
Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
Movie • 2014
Self
Twin Peaks
Movie • 1989
Laura Palmer
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
Movie • 2006
Self
#SquadGoals
Movie • 2018
Emily Hodges
The Makings of You
Movie • 2014
Judy
Dead Ink Archive
Movie • 2017
Alley
Between Two Worlds
Movie • 2014
Self
Rebirth
Movie • 2016
Air
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Movie • 2021
Self
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Movie • 2017
Self
Behind the Red Curtain
Movie • 2017
Self
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Movie • 2017
Self
White Bird in a Blizzard
Movie • 2014
May
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Movie • 2004
Mr. Jones
Movie • 1993
June (uncredited)
Manchild
Movie • 2007
Mary
Unplugged
Movie
Shelly / Wisdom (voice)
One Tree Hill
TV • 2003
Ellie Harp
House
TV • 2004
Stephanie Green
L.A. Doctors
TV • 1998
Sarah Church
CSI: NY
TV • 2004
Ellen Garner
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Tina Hodges
Dirty Sexy Money
TV • 2007
Andrea Smithson
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
TV • 1993
Catherine / Shivering Deer
Kingpin
TV • 2003
Marlene McDillon Cadena
Psych
TV • 2006
Donna Gooden
Perception
TV • 2012
Lacey Penderhalt
Love, Lies and Murder
TV • 1991
Patti Bailey
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Laura Palmer / Maddy Ferguson
Rosewood
TV • 2015
Brenda Downs
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Laura Palmer (archive footage)
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Laura Palmer / Carrie Page
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Maddy Ferguson
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Laura Palmer
Red Shoe Diaries
TV • 1992
Kate Lyons
David
TV • 1997
Bathsheba
Davide
TV • 1997
Betsabea
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self