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A captivating blue-eyed beauty (she says "murky
blue" eyes) born in Detroit, Michigan, Sherilyn Fenn had an unconventional
childhood. She and her two older siblings and a young half-sister
and half-brother spent their growing-up years moving from place to
place with their mother, Arlene, who played keyboards for various
rock bands. Sherilyn got used to changing schools and sets of friends.
She recalls that "it was a little unsettling always being the
'new girl,' but I developed an instinct for knowing who my friends
would be immediately."
At 17, Fenn and her mother moved to Beverly Hills. The teenager decided
to pursue an acting career and studied for a year with various teachers.
After a brief stint as a Playboy bunny at the Century City (L.A.)
Playboy Club, Ms. Fenn appeared in a number of small features, including
"Out of Control," "The Wraith," opposite Charlie
Sheen, and "Prep School," with Virginia Madsen. She played
supporting roles in the television movies "Silence of the Heart"
(aka "Death of a Sibling"), " "Divided We Stand,"
"Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story," and in "A Season
in Purgatory," a miniseries story of money, murder, sex, and
power. She also guest starred on "21 Jump Street."
Fenn is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Audrey Horne on "Twin
Peaks", or in her starring role in the film, "Two Moon Junction,"
in which she gave a provocative performance as a vulnerable debutante
who is corrupted by her passion for an unlikely man.
Sherilyn was also in several other feature films: "Back Street
Strays," in which she co-stared with Brooke Shields; the David
Lynch release, "Wild at Heart," in which her character is
discovered in the aftermath of a horrifying car accident in the middle
of nowhere; a comedy called "Fatal Instinct;" a romatic
comedy with Kelly Lynch and Billy Baldwin called "Three of Hearts;"
and a Jennifer Lynch production, "Boxing Helena." and most
recently starred in Showtime's "Slave of Dreams" where she
plays Potiphar's wife.
She stared in the February 14th episode of Tales from the Crypt entitiled
"You, Murderer." It was the HBO fifth season finale and
stared Sherilyn, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and Humphrey Bogart,
who, through the use of extensive computer imagery, was able to appear
and interact with the other characters.
At the end of 1996, Fenn was voted the 32nd "Sexiest Figure
in Science Fiction" by Femme Fatales Magazine.
In the Summer of 98 she began working on a new series for Showtime
called 'Rude Awakening'. In addition, she starred opposite Kevin Pollak
and Robert Loggia in THE MOVIE CHANNEL original picture, NATIONAL
LAMPOON'S THE DON'S ANALYST and recently starred in three independent
films - DARKNESS FALLS (with Ray Winstone), LOVE LIFE (opposite Bruce
Davison and Jon Tenney), and JUST WRITE which won the Best Film Award
at the 1997 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Sherilyn
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