A TV star from an iconic 1990s crime drama was unrecognizable when she was spotted this week in Los Angeles at the age of 59.
She shot to fame on a dark, brooding TV show that came to be one of the most influential programs of the decade – one that still enjoys a devoted cult following.
Co-created by an acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker, the series is now seen as an early harbinger of the impending golden age of prestige television.
Since then, this actress has gone on to guest-star on such beloved TV series as Friends, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gilmore Girls and Dawson’s Creek.
This week, she was glimpsed wearing a casual outfit of a white tank top and stylish print jeans as she stepped out to check her mail.
But can you guess who she is?
A TV star from an iconic 1990s crime drama was unrecognizable when she was spotted this week in Los Angeles at the age of 59
The actress is Sherilyn Fenn, who was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role as the lovestruck 18-year-old Audrey Horne on the 1990s series Twin Peaks.
Co-created by Hollywood auteur David Lynch, Twin Peaks starred Kyle MacLachlan as Dale Cooper, a dashing FBI detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl.
Sherilyn played the murder victim’s classmate Audrey, who becomes smitten with Dale and assists his investigation by informing on her own father, a suspect.
Twin Peaks originally ran for just two seasons in 1990 and 1991, leaving viewers both beguiled and frustrated by failing to tie up a series of loose ends.
It earned a devoted fanbase and spawned a 1992 prequel movie called Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me before being rebooted for a single season in 2017 – though neither of those two projects included Sherilyn in the cast.
Born in Detroit, Sherilyn moved to Los Angeles with her family as a teenager and dropped out of high school to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, named after the legendary teacher who founded the Actors’ Studio.
She briefly worked as a Playboy Bunny when she was 19 and began her Hollywood career in 1980s B-movies, such as the skater picture Thrashin’ with Josh Brolin and the fantasy action film The Wraith with Charlie Sheen.
Sherilyn had a brief romance with Prince in 1985 – but it was later that year on the set of the student film Dummies that she met her true first love, Johnny Depp.
The actress is Sherilyn Fenn, who was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role as the lovestruck 18-year-old Audrey Horne on the 1990s series Twin Peaks (pictured)
This week, she was glimpsed wearing a casual outfit of a white tank top and stylish print jeans as she stepped out to check her mail
In her personal life, she is the mother of two sons – Myles, 30, by her musician ex-husband Toulouse Holliday, and Christian, 17, by her ex-boyfriend Dylan Stewart
Johnny and Sherilyn embarked on a more than three-year romance and even got engaged before they ultimately parted ways and he moved on with Jennifer Grey.
During the time that they were together, Sherilyn got a career boost by guest starring on his classic 1980s high school TV comedy 21 Jump Street.
In recent years, she has described Johnny as her ‘first love’ and the ‘love of my life,’ and she publicly supported him when he and his ex-wife Amber Heard accused each other of domestic abuse in a bitter legal battle that he ultimately won.
When Amber leveled her allegations against Johnny in 2016, Sherilyn tweeted a picture of herself with him and wrote: ‘I know JCD is not capable of the things being written.’
Her best-remembered role came in 1990 when she started appearing on Twin Peaks as Audrey Horne, and that same year she posed nude in Playboy, catapulting to an exalted status as a Hollywood star and nationwide pinup.
Co-created by Hollywood auteur David Lynch, Twin Peaks starred Kyle MacLachlan (right) as FBI detective Dale Cooper, with whom Audrey is infatuated
Sherilyn (right) had a brief romance with Prince in 1985 – but it was later that year on the set of the student film Dummies that she met her true first love, Johnny Depp (left)
Johnny and Sherilyn (pictured) embarked on a more than three-year romance and even got engaged before they ultimately parted ways and he moved on with Jennifer Grey
The year Twin Peaks began, she featured in the David Lynch movie Wild At Heart starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, and during that decade she also appeared in the 1992 movie of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men directed by its leading man Gary Sinise.
From 1998 to 2001 she played the lead role of a faded soap opera star on the sitcom Rude Awakening, with a cast including Lynn Redgrave and Mario Van Peebles.
She guest-starred in a string of iconic TV series, including Friends, on which she played a woman with an artificial leg who dates Joey (Matt LeBlanc), then Chandler (Matthew Perry).
Sherilyn has also appeared on Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Psych and the US version of Shameless.
Since 2022, she has been starring on the horror comedy series Shining Vale alongside Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino.
In her personal life, she is the mother of two sons – Myles, 30, by her musician ex-husband Toulouse Holliday, and Christian, 17, by her ex-boyfriend Dylan Stewart.
