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

• 2028The Dusting of the Books
• 2028The World is Bound with Secret Knots
• 2026I Live Here Now — Martha
• 2018#SquadGoals — Emily Hodges
• 2017Dead Ink Archive — Alley
• 2016Café Society — Karen Stern
• 2016Rebirth — Air
• Rosewood — Brenda Downs
• 2014Jackie & Ryan — Miriam
• 2014The Makings of You — Judy
• 2014Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces — Laura Palmer
• 2014White Bird in a Blizzard — May
• Perception — Lacey Penderhalt
• 2011Texas Killing Fields — Lucie Sliger
• 2010Winter's Bone — April
• Lie to Me — Janet Brooks
• Dirty Sexy Money — Andrea Smithson
• 2007Manchild — Mary
• Psych — Donna Gooden
• 2006The Secrets of Comfort House — Wendy Brown
• 2005Paradise Texas — Betsy Kinney
• CSI: NY — Ellen Garner
• House — Stephanie Green
• 2004Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
• Kingpin — Marlene McDillon Cadena
• One Tree Hill — Ellie Harp
• 2002Children on Their Birthdays — Elinore Murphy
• Without a Trace — Tina Hodges
• 2001Hitched — Eve
• 1999Angel's Dance — Angelica Chaste
• 1998Dante's View — Sam Kingsley
• 1998Kiss the Sky — Andy
• L.A. Doctors — Sarah Church
• 1998Vampires — Katrina
• 1997Bliss — Maria
• 1997David — Batseba
• David — Bathsheba
• 1997The Blood Oranges — Fiona
• 1997This World, Then the Fireworks — Lois Archer
• 1996Mother Night — Helga Noth / Resi Noth
• 1995Fall Time — Patty / Carol
• 1995Follow The River — Mary Ingles
• 1995Homage — Lucy Samuel
• 1995Notes from Underground — Liza
• 1994Backbeat — Astrid Kirchherr
• 1994Don't Do It — Michelle
• 1994Guinevere — Guinevere
• 1994Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica — Kate Lyons (archive footage)
• 1994The Can — Angelique Carmel
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — Catherine / Shivering Deer
• 1993Mr. Jones — June (uncredited)
• 1992Jersey Girl — Tara
• Red Shoe Diaries — Kate Lyons
• 1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — Laura Palmer
• Love, Lies and Murder — Patti Bailey
• Twin Peaks — Laura Palmer / Maddy Ferguson, Laura Palmer (archive footage), Laura Palmer / Carrie Page
• 1990Wild at Heart — The Good Witch
• 1989Twin Peaks — Laura Palmer
• Unplugged — Shelly / Wisdom (voice)

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2021Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House — Self
• 2019A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee — Self
• 2017Behind the Red Curtain — Self
• 2017I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun — Self
• 2017The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair — Self
• 2014Between Two Worlds — Self
• 2014Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories — Self
• 2007Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks — Self
• 2006Working with a Master: John Carpenter — Self
• 2001An Introduction to David Lynch — Self
• 2001Postcards From The Cast — Self
• 2001Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self