60 Facts About Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn was born on Sheryl Ann Fenn; February 1,1965 and is an American actress.

Sherilyn Fenn came to attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the television series Twin Peaks for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.

Sherilyn Fenn is known for her roles in Wild at Heart, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena, the television sitcom Rude Awakening, The United States of Leland, Shameless, and Shining Vale.

Sherilyn Fenn comes from a family of musicians: her mother is keyboard player Arlene Quatro, her aunt is singer Suzi Quatro, her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz musician, and her father, Leo Fenn, managed such rock bands as Suzi Quatro's The Pleasure Seekers, Alice Cooper, and The Billion Dollar Babies.

Sherilyn Fenn is of Italian and Hungarian descent on her mother's side, and of Irish and French descent on her father's.

Sherilyn Fenn frequently traveled with her mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was 17.

Not wanting to start with a new school again, Sherilyn Fenn dropped out after her junior year and decided to pursue acting, enrolling at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Sherilyn Fenn had a part in the 1985 cult teen-comedy Just One of the Guys in which she tries to seduce a teenaged girl who was disguised as a boy, played by Joyce Hyser.

Sherilyn Fenn starred alongside Johnny Depp in the 1985 short student film Dummies, directed by Laurie Frank for the American Film Institute.

Sherilyn Fenn's breakthrough came when she was cast by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the tantalizing, reckless Audrey Horne, a high school femme fatale, in the TV series Twin Peaks, which ran between 1990 and 1991.

Sherilyn Fenn reached cult status 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.

Sherilyn Fenn has brought out a side of me that's more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult.

Sherilyn Fenn has made it OK to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative at times, to be precocious.

Sherilyn Fenn goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it.

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

In October 1990, while promoting Twin Peaks, Sherilyn Fenn made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine along with Madchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle.

Sherilyn Fenn learned from her beloved teacher "to find the roles that you're passionate about, that speak to you on some level and which will help you grow on some level," which has then become her line of conduct.

Sherilyn Fenn turned to independent films, choosing varied and unusual roles:.

Sherilyn Fenn played the part of ambitious stripper Sheryl Ann DuJean, a fictitious character who is a composite of several real-life women including stripper Candy Barr, Marilyn Monroe, and Judith Campbell Exner.

Sherilyn Fenn portrayed a narcissistic seductress amputated and imprisoned by Julian Sands, who makes her become his personal Venus de Milo in an effort to possess her.

Sherilyn Fenn then starred in Carl Reiner's neo-noir parody Fatal Instinct as Armand Assante's devoted secretary and Sean Young's and Kate Nelligan's rival.

Sherilyn Fenn was asked to read for the femme fatale Lola, but opted for the secretary role.

Sherilyn Fenn afterward portrayed Potiphar's wife Zulaikha in Showtime's 1995 Biblical TV movie Slave of Dreams opposite Adrian Pasdar and Edward James Olmos.

Sherilyn Fenn has the same striking beauty, and because of that she's experienced some of the things in life and in this business that make Elizabeth such a fascinating person.

Sherilyn Fenn began to alternate TV movies and independent films.

Sherilyn Fenn appeared in the 1997 romantic comedy Just Write, along with Jeremy Piven, as the dream actress of a Hollywood tour bus driver, who mistakes him for a famous screenwriter.

Sherilyn Fenn starred in the 1998 British psychological drama Darkness Falls as a wealthy and neglected wife, who is sequestered with her husband by a man determined to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.

Sherilyn Fenn called the film "a wonderful character piece" While shooting the film in the Isle of Man in late 1997, Sherilyn Fenn considered settling in London to start a European career, but eventually decided to stay in the US.

Sherilyn Fenn gained newfound enthusiasm with the lead role in Showtime's sitcom Rude Awakening as Billie Frank, an alcoholic ex-soap opera actress, who tries to go sober and become a writer, but continues to struggle with her self-destructive habits.

Sherilyn Fenn again joined Jeremy Piven in a 1998 episode of Cupid, as Piven's love interest.

Sherilyn Fenn starred in an episode of Night Visions, as a woman who buys a used car possessed by a vengeful spirit.

Sherilyn Fenn was cast as a kindergarten teacher for the pilot of the 2001 American version of the British TV show Blind Men, alongside French Stewart.

In 2002, Sherilyn Fenn was one of several former Twin Peaks stars, such as Dana Ashbrook and Madchen Amick, to have a recurring role on The WB's Dawson's Creek.

Sherilyn Fenn guest-starred in three episodes from the fifth season, as Alex Pearl, the seductive manager of the restaurant where Joshua Jackson works.

Sherilyn Fenn was afterwards cast as Harley Quinn in The WB's Birds of Prey, but was replaced by Mia Sara before the series began.

Sherilyn Fenn starred in the original pilot episode, but dropped out, due to scheduling conflicts, as the show's creators realized that the character Harley Quinn would need to be a bigger part of the show.

Sherilyn Fenn played a crime boss in the 2002 film Swindle alongside Tom Sizemore.

Sherilyn Fenn had a small role in the film The United States of Leland alongside Ryan Gosling, in which she played a mother who captivates a troubled teenage boy.

In 2003, Sherilyn Fenn appeared on The WB's Gilmore Girls as Sasha, the girlfriend of Jess Mariano's estranged father in the season-three episode "Here Comes the Son", which was the back-door pilot for a California-set spin-off titled Windward Circle, that was to have starred Milo Ventimiglia, Estes, and Sherilyn Fenn.

Sherilyn Fenn played the recurring part of Violet Montgomery on Fox's Boston Public, and appeared in Showtime's Cavedweller opposite Kyra Sedgwick.

In 2004, Sherilyn Fenn joined former co-star Mark Harmon in an episode of NCIS, as an amnesiac woman.

In 2004, Sherilyn Fenn co-starred opposite Traci Lords and Paul Johansson in Emily Skopov's Novel Romance, released in 2006, in which she played a pregnancy shop owner who herself cannot have children.

Sherilyn Fenn then 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.

In 2005, Sherilyn Fenn made a appearance on The 4400, playing Jean DeLynn Baker, a 4400 who has the ability to grow toxin-emitting spores on her hands.

Sherilyn Fenn guest-starred on the final episode of Judging Amy.

In 2006, Sherilyn Fenn reteamed with Amy Sherman-Palladino and reappeared in the sixth and seventh seasons of Gilmore Girls as Anna Nardini, the ex-girlfriend of Luke Danes and protective mother to his daughter April.

Sherilyn Fenn was cast as the female lead in ABC's 2006 comedy series Three Moons Over Milford, but she was ultimately replaced by Elizabeth McGovern.

Sherilyn Fenn was slated for a recurring role on CBS's 2006 crime drama Smith, but the show was quickly canceled.

Sherilyn Fenn appeared in the 2007 Dukes of Hazzard prequel, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning as Lulu Hogg.

In July 2006, shortly after shooting The Dukes of Hazzard prequel, Sherilyn Fenn stepped behind the camera for the first time and directed in Pittsburgh a documentary film about child enrichment program CosmiKids and its founder, Judy Julin.

Sherilyn Fenn subsequently joined its executive team in 2007 as executive director of the film and television division.

In July 2008, Sherilyn Fenn filmed The Scenesters, a black comedy made by Los Angeles-based comedy group The Vacationeers, which premiered in October 2009.

In July 2009, Sherilyn Fenn made a guest appearance on In Plain Sight as a lesbian counterfeiter.

In December 2010, Sherilyn Fenn appeared on Psych with other Twin Peaks actors on the season 5 episode "Dual Spires" as sultry librarian Maudette Hornsby.

Sherilyn Fenn reprised her role as Audrey Horne in 2017 for the third season of Twin Peaks.

In 2016, Sherilyn Fenn wrote and published a children's book titled No Man's Land, about a boy who has autism.

Sherilyn Fenn was inspired to write the book after her second son, Christian, was diagnosed with autism.

Sherilyn Fenn dated pop singer Prince for a short time during 1985 and then Johnny Depp the same year; their relationship lasted several years.

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

Sherilyn Fenn is the mother of two boys: Myles, born in 1993, and Christian, born in 2007.