29 Facts About Julee Cruise

Julee Ann Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Julee Cruise released four albums beginning with 1989's Floating into the Night.

Julee Cruise reprised the role in the 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and in the 2017 revival series Twin Peaks: The Return.

Julee Cruise was featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant-garde 1990 theater production Industrial Symphony No 1, which was filmed and released on home media.

Julee Cruise was a stage actress and appeared in the off-Broadway musicals Return to the Forbidden Planet and Radiant Baby in 2004.

Julee Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress in Minneapolis with the Children's Theater Company.

Julee Cruise moved to New York and played Janis Joplin in a revue called Beehive, while working with Angelo Badalamenti.

Julee Cruise made a number of appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer at a local bar, and was prominently featured in both the show's landmark pilot episode and the episode where Laura Palmer's murderer is revealed, as well as in 1992's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Julee Cruise reinterpreted and sang the theme song for an episode of the USA Network show Psych.

Julee Cruise appeared on Saturday Night Live on May 12,1990, filling in along with Spanic Boys on short notice when scheduled performer Sinead O'Connor refused to appear on the same show as guest host Andrew Dice Clay.

Julee Cruise's long-delayed third album, The Art of Being a Girl, was released in 2002.

In 2011, Julee Cruise released her fourth album, My Secret Life.

Julee Cruise acted and sang in the off-Broadway cast of Return to the Forbidden Planet, a spoof of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and toured with The B-52's as Cindy Wilson's touring stand-in on and off from 1992 to 1999.

Julee Cruise lent her vocals to works by a miscellaneous list of collaborators, mostly in electronic music.

Julee Cruise collaborated with Moby on his song "Drown Disco" which remains unreleased.

Julee Cruise provided vocals and lyrics to several of the songs on Wide Angle, the debut album by Welsh electronic music group Hybrid, notably the nu skool breaks track "If I Survive".

Julee Cruise was featured in two songs on Supa DJ Dmitry's album Scream of Consciousness : "Don't Talk Me Down" and a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity".

Julee Cruise appeared on a number of tracks on both the 2003 album Dreams Top Rock and the 2007 album Monstrous Surplus by German post-rock act Pluramon, a pseudonym of the musician Marcus Schmickler.

Julee Cruise appeared as a guest vocalist on Sarcast While, the 2006 full-length album from the New York band, Time of Orchids, released on Tzadik Records.

Julee Cruise's vocals appeared on five tracks on Kenneth Bager's 2006 album Fragments from a Space Cadet.

Julee Cruise provided the vocals for Delerium's "Magic" song.

Julee Cruise provided vocals alongside Pharrell Williams on Handsome Boy Modeling School's song "Class System", produced by Prince Paul.

Julee Cruise was photographed in London by the fashion photographer Matt Colombo in an editorial that appeared in issue No 49 of Zoo Magazine in 2015.

In 1991, Julee Cruise contributed the song "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" to the "Until the End of the World" soundtrack.

In 2001, Julee Cruise contributed two exclusive tracks to the An American Nightmare soundtrack CD maxi-single, "In Your World of Blue" and "Never let you go".

Julee Cruise's song "Floating" was featured in TV advertisements and trailers for the show The Riches, which debuted on FX in March 2007.

Julee Cruise married Edward Grinnan, an author and editor, in 1988.

On March 28,2018, Julee Cruise announced on her Facebook page that she had systemic lupus, which caused her considerable pain and affected her ability to walk and stand.

Julee Cruise died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on June 9,2022, aged 65; her death was a suicide.