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Deluxe, deliberate, delovely Audrey Horne moves like cool jazz. When she appears on the screen, there’s that Audrey theme again, lounge bop with a swivel in its hips. She’s a daddy’s girl, but only when she wants something, and anyway, all her daddy really has is power. So sinuous, sweet and sour, Audrey Horne is an interesting role model for today’s upwardly mobile power teens. She wafts through Twin Peaks saying things like, “In real life, there is no algebra.”

Sherilyn traveled a lot with her divorced mother and two older brothers before the family settled in Los Angeles when she was seventeen. Fenn, who says herself she's demure didn't want to start with a new school again and soon enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. David Walstad. "Legendary Portrayal." The Philadelphia Inquirer TV Week (US). May 21, 1995. pp. 4–5. Fenn played a crime boss in the 2002 film Swindle alongside Tom Sizemore. She had a small role in the film The United States of Leland alongside Ryan Gosling, in which she played a mother who captivates a troubled teenage boy. Haynes, Monica (July 21, 2006). "Sherilyn's "Dukes," Xtina's disc and an unexpected visit for Colin". Post-Gazette.com . Retrieved February 20, 2014. After finishing the Russia-set action film Treasure Raiders with David Carradine, Fenn starred in the Canadian psychological thriller Presumed Dead, alongside Duncan Regehr, as a detective working on a missing-person case who has to outwit a crime novelist.

Ausiello, Michael (January 18, 2006). "Marion Ross, Sherilyn Fenn, Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino". TV Guide.

Following Rude Awakening, Fenn's has made a number of episodic TV appearances. In the middle of the 2000s, she was involved in many projects that went unrealized. Maybe she will, if she gets her diploma. Does she find her director a strange bird, a “Jimmy Stewart from Mars,” as Mel Brooks has described him? Not at all. He’s a hard-working, caring director. A pal. Valcourt, Keith (December 8, 2016). "Sherilyn Fenn: 'Return to Twin Peaks' ". The Washington Times . Retrieved January 8, 2017. Now it's been almost two years since I started. I went to see David. We were drinking coffee, and I said, 'Oh this is wrong. And this.' He said, 'Sherilyn Fenn, you're a mess. You need TM!' He hooked me up with a wonderful teacher. It's life-changing.Sherilyn Fenn: Fenn de Siecle". Movieline. January 7, 1993. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010 . Retrieved October 8, 2010.

a b c d Walstad, David (May 21, 1995). "Legendary Portrayal". The Philadelphia Inquirer TV Week. US. pp.4–5. However, after Sherman-Palladino left the show, the direction for the character changed—the producers decided to make her character a villain in a custody battle. Lionsgate Publicity: February 2009". Lionsgateinfo.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011 . Retrieved April 25, 2010. In December 2010, Fenn appeared on Psych with other Twin Peaks actors on the season 5 episode " Dual Spires" as sultry librarian Maudette Hornsby. The episode paid homage to Twin Peaks with many references to the show. She reprised her role as Audrey Horne in 2017 for the third season of Twin Peaks. [51] In February 2016, she joined the cast of the American version of Shameless.Tranquil, fluid, wavy Sherilyn is an Aquarius. She has psychic abilities; she can tell when people are lying. She doesn’t like parties, she doesn’t like clubs, she likes restaurants, especially ones with great Italian food and good chianti. She is part Italian (Quatro is short for Quatrocchio), part Irish (Fenn), part Hungarian (rebel) and part French (Chanel). She hasn’t had a tan in years and, on reflection, never really liked having one. She likes cold, rainy weather. Fenn posed for photographer Steven Meisel for the autumn–winter 1991–1992 Dolce & Gabbana campaign. [20] Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn; February 1, 1965) is an American actress. [1] She played Audrey Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. In 1991, Hollywood acting coach Roy London chose her to star in his directorial debut Diary of a Hitman, in which she plays a young mother determined to protect her child from hitman Forest Whitaker. According to Fenn, the turning point in her career was when she met London in 1990. She credits him with instilling confidence and newfound enthusiasm. In 1996, the Daily Mirror chose her as one of the "World's 100 Most Beautiful Women", and Femme Fatales chose her as one of the "50 sexiest sci-fi actresses". [61]