Sheryl Lee
Actor
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.
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#SquadGoals (2018)
As: Emily Hodges
Ambitious high school senior Samantha Hodges is a serious journalist, both for the school paper and for the yearbook, but she's just as serious about her friends, Nate, Gillian, and Rudy, all of whom are vying with her for a full-ride local scholarship to college. Very close to her mother, Emily, who is the school's guidance counselor, Samantha finds her reporting taking an investigative turn when two of her classmates--and ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Danny J. Boyle
Stars: Corey Fogelmanis | Kennedy Lea Slocum | Peyton Clark | Paris Berelc | Pedro Correa
Behind the Red Curtain (2017)
As: Herself
Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return. Focused on the set creation of the Black Lodge scenes.
Directed by: Richard Beymer
Stars: David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan | Sheryl Lee | Robert Forster | Al Strobel
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun (2017)
As: Herself
Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.
Directed by: Richard Beymer
Stars: David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan | Sheryl Lee | George Griffith | Ray Wise
Café Society (2016)
As: Karen Stern
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg | Kristen Stewart | Steve Carell | Blake Lively | Parker Posey
Jackie & Ryan (2014)
As: Miriam
A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
Stars: Katherine Heigl | Ben Barnes | Clea DuVall | Sheryl Lee | Emily Alyn Lind
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
As: May
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Gregg Araki
Stars: Shailene Woodley | Eva Green | Christopher Meloni | Shiloh Fernandez | Gabourey Sidibe
Texas Killing Fields (2011)
As: Lucie Sliger
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
Stars: Sam Worthington | Jessica Chastain | Chloë Grace Moretz | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Stephen Graham
Winter's Bone (2010)
As: April
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Debra Granik
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence | John Hawkes | Kevin Breznahan | Dale Dickey | Garret Dillahunt
The Secrets of Comfort House (2006)
As: Wendy Brown
A multiple murder investigation in a small hunting town focuses on one suspect, Wendy Sinclair, who operates a battered women's shelter where each of the victims' wives have sought shelter.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Timothy Bond
Stars: Sheryl Lee | Yannick Bisson | John Novak | John Tench | Jillian Fargey
Paradise Texas (2005)
As: Betsy Kinney
Stuck between work and family, Mack Cameron must choose between his acting career and saving his marriage. While on a film shoot in his hometown of Littleton, Texas, one young boy inspires Mack to pursue his lost dream. Paradise, Texas follows one man as he discovers it's never too late to be what you might have been.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Lorraine Senna
Stars: Timothy Bottoms | Sheryl Lee | Meredith Baxter
Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
As: Elinore Murphy
Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Mark Medoff
Stars: Sheryl Lee | Christopher McDonald | Tom Arnold | Tania Raymonde | Jesse Plemons
Hitched (2001)
After a homemaker discovers that her husband is a philanderer, she imprisons him in their soundproof basement and reports him missing to the police.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Wesley Strick
Stars: Anthony Michael Hall | Sheryl Lee | Alex Carter | Brenda Devine | Matt Cooke
Angel's Dance (1999)
As: Angelica Chaste
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David L. Corley
Stars: James Belushi | Sheryl Lee | Kyle Chandler | Frank John Hughes | Jon Polito
Dante's View (1998)
As: Samantha Kingsley
Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very rare cards related to baseball. When her car breaks down in a remote corner of California, she meets June, a young woman who dreams of change.
Directed by: Steven A. Adelson
Stars: Guinevere Turner | Sheryl Lee | Amy Hathaway
Vampires (1998)
As: Katrina
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: John Carpenter
Stars: James Woods | Daniel Baldwin | Sheryl Lee | Thomas Ian Griffith | Maximilian Schell
Kiss the Sky (1998)
As: Andy
Two professionals, Jeff and Marty, take a business trip to the Philippines. Their deep dissatisfaction with their lives leads them to forsake their friends and families for a return to the alcohol and drug-induced wanderings of their youth.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Roger Young
Stars: William Petersen | Gary Cole | Sheryl Lee | Patricia Charbonneau | Season Hubley
The Blood Oranges (1998)
As: Fiona
Cyril and Fiona are a long-married couple who travel to an unnamed tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. There they meet another couple, Catherine, Hugh and their three children. Hugh is a photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. The Cyril/Catherine and Hugh/Fiona relationships start.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Philip Haas
Stars: Laila Robins | Sheryl Lee | Charles Dance | Colin Lane
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
As: Lois Archer
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Oblowitz
Stars: Billy Zane | Gina Gershon | Philip Locke | Elis Imboden | Christian Durango
Bliss (1997)
As: Maria
Joseph and Maria are married for six months and Maria still has never had an orgasm with her husband. They begin to visit mysterious doctor Baltazar who teaches them how to reach ecstasy in sex.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Lance Young
Stars: Craig Sheffer | Sheryl Lee | Terence Stamp | Casey Siemaszko | Spalding Gray
David (1997)
As: Batseba
The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, ...
Runtime: 190 min.
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Stars: Nathaniel Parker | Jonathan Pryce | Leonard Nimoy | Sheryl Lee | Ben Daniels
Mother Night (1996)
As: Helga Noth / Resi Noth
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Keith Gordon
Stars: Nick Nolte | Sheryl Lee | Alan Arkin | Kirsten Dunst | Bernard Behrens
Notes from Underground (1995)
As: Liza
Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Gary Walkow
Stars: Henry Czerny | Sheryl Lee | Jon Favreau | Seth Green
Fall Time (1995)
As: Patty / Carol
Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Paul Warner
Stars: Stephen Baldwin | Mickey Rourke | Sheryl Lee | David Arquette | Steve Alden
Homage (1995)
As: Lucy Samuel
The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ross Kagan Marks
Stars: Danny Nucci | Blythe Danner | Sheryl Lee | Bruce Davison | Frank Whaley
Follow The River (1995)
As: Mary Ingles
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Martin Davidson
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Sheryl Lee | Tim Guinee | Eric Schweig | Andy Stahl
Guinevere (1994)
As: Guinevere
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Sheryl Lee | Sean Patrick Flanery | Noah Wyle | Brid Brennan | Donald Pleasence
Backbeat (1994)
As: Astrid Kirchherr
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played by Sheryl Lee).
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Stephen Dorff | Ian Hart | Sheryl Lee | Gary Bakewell | Chris O'Neill
Jersey Girl (1992)
As: Tara
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: David Burton Morris
Stars: Jami Gertz | Dylan McDermott | Sheryl Lee | Aida Turturro | Molly Price
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
As: Laura Palmer
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Sheryl Lee | Ray Wise | Mädchen Amick | Dana Ashbrook | James Marshall
Wild at Heart (1990)
As: The Good Witch
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Laura Dern | Willem Dafoe | J.E. Freeman | Crispin Glover