Sherilyn Fenn

Although actress Elizabeth Taylor fought against the unauthorized biopic Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), she found that Fenn portrayed her in a fitting manner.

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Dita Von Teese said that Fenn's Playboy photos were the original inspiration for dyeing her hair from blonde to black.

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Sherilyn's name is scrawled on Johnny Depp's helmet in Platoon (1986).

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While filming NBC's Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), Fenn fought every day to preserve the integrity of the script. Fenn's priority was to portray Elizabeth Taylor respectfully and accurately.

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Her friend and former boyfriend Prince shares a great interest in silent-screen star Clara Bow, whom Fenn wanted to portray.

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In 1992, photographer George Hurrell Sr. took a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts and Sean Penn. In these portraits, the actors posed in period costumes, hair and makeup, recreating the style of the 1930s.

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While promoting Twin Peaks (1990), she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone alongside Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle.

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Her grandfather Art Quatro was a jazz band musician. His group was the 'Art Quatro Trio.'.

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At the age of 19, she worked as a Playboy bunny in Los Angeles for two months.

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When asked why she cast Fenn in two different roles in Gilmore Girls (2000), creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said: "I love Sherilyn and I don't care. One of the features of the show is that I only want the best people. I'm constantly looking for time to work with Sherilyn, and I'm getting very old and a truck could hit me at any moment. I can't put this off. It's long, so I'd rather bring her in and have her be a part of my world."

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She auditioned for the role of Robin Wright in The Princess Bride (1987).

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She was originally cast as Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn in the pilot episode of the WB show Birds of Prey (2002), but Mia Sara took over the role for the rest of the season. Fenn left due to scheduling conflicts.

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She was named one of the world's 50 most beautiful people by People magazine.

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She is the niece of 1970s pop singer Suzi Quatro and musicians Patti Quatro, Michael Quatro and Nancy Quatro.

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She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

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Her father's ancestry was Irish, Bohemian Czech, German, English and Scotch-Irish/Northern Irish. Her mother is half Italian and half Hungarian. Her mother's name, Quatro, is a shortening of Quatrocchio.

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According to John Malkovich, the lead actor of Of Mice and Men (1992), she is one of the best actors.

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She appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in December 1990.

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Batman fans selected Sherilyn Fenn as the perfect Selina Kyle/Catwoman for a Batman dream cast.

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Comic book artist Jeff Johnson used a photo from Sherilyn Fenn's December 1990 Playboy shoot as a reference for drawing the character Enchantress Amora on the October 1991 cover of Marvel's "Wonder Man."

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The Norwegian hard rock band Audrey Horne, which Fenn inspired, takes its name from her character in Twin Peaks (1990).

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Sherilyn Fenn wanted to play silent-screen star Clara Bow.

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Fenn appeared as a guest star alongside her then-fiancé Johnny Depp in the 21 Jump Street (1987) episode Blindside (1987).

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There were plans to turn Fenn's Twin Peaks (1990) character Audrey Horne into her own series, but they never materialized. Her character apparently inspired David Lynch's character for Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive (2001); as Fenn said in a 1997 interview, "David was talking about 'Mulholland Drive,' talking about it like 'Audrey goes to Hollywood.' She's driving down Mulholland in this convertible… But it didn't happen."

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Sherilyn Fenn grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

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Fenn appeared in an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989) alongside Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow and "Humphrey Bogart." Director Robert Zemeckis used footage of Bogart in the episode. Sherilyn plays Bogart's lover. Fenn and Rossellini had already appeared together in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), and both had guest-starred in the third season of Friends (1994).

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Fenn starred with Milo Ventimiglia and Rob Estes in the third-season Gilmore Girls (2000) episode that served as the backdoor pilot for the California-set spin-off "Windward Circle." The network dropped the project, citing cost issues because filming was to take place in Venice, California. Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted to work with Sherilyn Fenn again and wrote the character Anna Nardini back into the series with Fenn in mind. Anna was initially meant to be a strong enough presence to pose a potential threat to Lorelai. However, after Sherman-Palladino left the series, the producers decided to make her the villain in a custody battle, changing the direction originally planned for the character.

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At the start of filming the second season of Twin Peaks (1990), Fenn came down with a bad case of pneumonia, and headlines suggested the show's production could be affected or that she might have to leave the series. As writer/producer Harley Peyton said in an interview: "It looked like it could really create serious problems for us. Everything worked out. She was great, recovered quite quickly and came back earlier than she should have. We had different directors shooting every day and two directors shooting on a single day, and we actually completed all her scenes."

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Fenn attended the Fall 2010 Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, where a Twin Peaks (1990) reunion was held.

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Fenn appeared in The Wild Life (1984) alongside her then-boyfriend Chris Penn.

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Fenn joined the management team of the child enrichment program CosmiKids as general manager of its film and television division.

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While filming Darkness Falls (1999) in England, Fenn grew tired of Hollywood and considered moving to London. Her co-star Ray Winstone encouraged her to come to England. British director Mike Figgis did the same, telling her it would be very good for her because England is quite different from Hollywood. He told her he had a great deal of work and that she could always work in Europe.

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Fenn was originally considered for the femme fatale Lola in Fatal Instinct (1993), a role played by Sean Young. Fenn preferred the part of Laura, Armand Assante's love-obsessed secretary, and suggested to director Carl Reiner that he cast Young as Lola.

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Fenn's acting coach was Roy London, who directed Diary of a Hitman (1991), in which Fenn and Forest Whitaker starred.

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One of Fenn's favorite performances in a film is Jessica Lange's in Frances (1982).

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Singer and songwriter Screamin' Jay Hawkins wrote and recorded a song titled "Sherilyn Fenn" on his 1993 album "Stone Crazy." The song is a tribute to Fenn, with whom Hawkins had worked on Two Moon Junction (1988).

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For her December 1990 Playboy feature, she chose her then-boyfriend, photographer Barry Hollywood, to shoot her photos.

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In the winter of 1990-1991, she appeared on the cover of In Fashion magazine alongside Billy Idol.

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She was initially cast in the female lead of ABC's Three Moons Over Milford (2006), but Elizabeth McGovern took over the role. Fenn appeared in the unaired pilot, which featured Jill Shackner as Lydia Davis and Majandra Delfino as a guest star.

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The inspirational author Sherilyn Connelly took her first name from Fenn.

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According to Fenn, acting coach Roy London played a very important role in her development as an actress.

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On August 6, 2007, her second son, Christian James, was born. The child's father is her ex-boyfriend Dylan Stewart, the son of professional freelance Macintosh consultant and writer/director Douglas Day Stewart.

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Her favorite Elizabeth Taylor films are A Place in the Sun (1951), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Sandpiper (1965).

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On April 16, 2013, she held a master class with Jennifer Lynch at the 2013 Panama International Film Festival.

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After appearing alongside Jeremy Piven (Just Write (1997)), Mark Harmon (Dillinger (1991)) and Virginia Madsen (Zombie High (1987)), she made guest appearances on the series Cupid (1998), NCIS (2003) and Smith (2006).

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Some of Sherilyn Fenn's favorite films are La Vie En Rose (2007), On Golden Pond (1981) and Agnes of God (1985).

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Sherilyn Fenn is good friends with Sheryl Lee.

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Sherilyn Fenn attended the 2011 Twin Peaks Festival.

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On Gilmore Girls (2000), Sherilyn Fenn played two different characters, each with a different hair color: Sasha, the girlfriend of Jess's father whom Jess does not visit in California, and Anna Nardini, the mother of Luke's teenage daughter April.

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Sherilyn Fenn began shooting Sen Katil (1995) the day after her wedding.

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Sherilyn Fenn played the director Cement alongside Chris Penn in Adrian Pasdar's first feature film. Fenn and Pasdar had previously appeared together in Slave of Dreams (1995), and Penn and Fenn had previously appeared together in The Wild Life (1984).

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Sherilyn Fenn took part as one of the celebrity models in a charity fashion show organized by Thierry Mugler to benefit the Los Angeles AIDS Project.

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Sherilyn Fenn is working as a filmmaker on a documentary about CosmiKids, a child enrichment program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Sherilyn Fenn attended the 2010 Twin Peaks Festival.

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Sherilyn Fenn took the role of Lulu Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007) in order to work again with director Robert Berlinger, who had previously directed her in Rude Awakening (1998).

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Sherilyn Fenn was originally cast in the female lead of ABC's Prey (1998), but was replaced by Debra Messing. Fenn appeared in the unaired pilot episode.

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Sherilyn Fenn was reportedly considered for the lead in Roger Vadim's remake of his own film Barbarella (1968).

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Sherilyn Fenn posed for photographer Steven Meisel for the fall-winter 1991-1992 Dolce & Gabbana campaign.

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Sherilyn Fenn is mentioned in the 1995 song "Razor Burn" on "Hoss", the third full-length album by the punk band Lagwagon.

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Sherilyn Fenn was described as an "indie goddess" by writer/director Emily Skopov.

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On an episode of VH1 The List (1999) hosted by Johnny Rzeznik, Sherilyn Fenn chose Tommy (1975), Purple Rain (1984) and Spice World (1997) as her top three rock n' roll films.

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Sherilyn Fenn directed an unfinished documentary film about the child enrichment program CosmiKids and its founder, Judy Julin.

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Sherilyn Fenn is attending the 18th annual Twin Peaks Festival in North Bend, Washington.

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Sherilyn Fenn is the daughter of Arlene Quatro and Leo Fenn Sr.

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Two of Sherilyn Fenn's co-stars later cast her in their directorial feature debuts: Adrian Pasdar, who had appeared with her in Slave of Dreams (1995), gave her a role in Cement (2000), and Bruce Davison, her co-star in Lovelife (1997), cast her in Off Season (2001).

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Sherilyn Fenn became close friends with Jennifer Lynch while working together on Boxing Helena (1993).

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Sherilyn Fenn posed for photographer Douglas Kirkland for the July 1990 issue of New York magazine; the cover featured her nude body draped in an American flag.

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Sherilyn Fenn is the younger sister of Leo Fenn (born May 1961) and David Lee Fenn (born March 1963).

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Sherilyn Fenn was selected by Femme Fatales magazine as one of the 50 sexiest science fiction actresses.

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Sherilyn Fenn is expecting her second child with her boyfriend Dylan Stewart in Los Angeles, California.

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Sherilyn Fenn was named by the Daily Mirror as one of the 100 Most Beautiful Women in the World.

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Of Mice and Men (1992) was filmed in California.

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Sherilyn Fenn was born on exactly the same date as Brandon Lee, famous for "The Crow".

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Fatal Instinct (1993) was filmed in California.

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Sherilyn Fenn was selected by FHM-Australia as one of the "100 Sexiest Women".

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Three of Hearts (1993) was filmed in New York.

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Sherilyn Fenn is a cousin of Kristen Glass, Carey Torrice and drummer Michael Glass of the band Overscene.

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Ruby (1992) was filmed in Dallas, Texas, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, California.

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Darkness Falls (1999) was filmed on the Isle of Man.

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Sherilyn Fenn was selected by the men's magazine Maxim as one of 'Maxim's Most Wanted Women'.

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On 27 March 1993, Sherilyn Fenn attended the 8th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.

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Roman Romance (2006) was filmed in Los Angeles, California.

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Just Write (1997) was filmed in Los Angeles, California.

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Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) was filmed in California.

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Off Season (2001) was filmed in British Columbia, Canada.

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Presumed Dead (2006) was filmed in Vancouver, Canada.

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Sherilyn Fenn was selected by the weekly Australian men's magazine Zoo as one of the "Top 50 Hottest Babes Ever."

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Slave of Dreams (1995) was filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

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The Scenesters (2009) was filmed in Los Angeles, California.

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Lovelife (1997) was filmed in California.

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