Twin Peaks Stars

I don’t think people who have heard of Twin Peaks but haven’t really watched realise what a wicked cast it has.  First of all, obviously there’s Kyle McLaughlin (yummy), but there are loads of well known actors who either star or do guest appearances.  Here are some of my favourites.

Sherilyn Fenn plays sexy kooky Audrey Horne, who is in love with agent Cooper, gets kidnapped and drugged with heroin, and can tie a cherry stalk into a knot in her mouth.  After seeing her do that on Twin Peaks I then made it my mission to master this skill - it definitely does not look sexy in real life!  Audrey also has an affair with a young Billy Zane, who guest stars as a checked shirt, country styled businessman.

Another Twin Peaks A list guest star (although she wasn't then) is Heather Graham.  Heather plays Annie, the sister of Norma (Peggy Lipton) who owns the local diner where all that cherry pie and coffee is served.  Annie has just ditched life as a Nun in a convent and ends up falling for Agent Cooper (although life isn't happily ever after).

However, the best guest star appearance has to be David Duchovny, who plays Dennis Bryson, a transvestite Drug Enforcement Administrator.  I have to say he makes a pretty good looking woman (why do guys always have the best legs?).

Then there's Everette McGill (Big Ed) and Wendy Robie (crazy eye-patched housewife Nadine).  Ed marrys Nadine when they are in high school, even though he is really in love with Norma, because he accidentally shoots her eye out on a hunting trip - hence the eye patch.  Nadine knows Ed is not in love with her and tried to commit suicide by overdose.  She goes into a coma and when she wakes up she thinks she is 17 again.  She insists on attending high school and trying out for chearleading practice where everyone discovers the coma has somehow induced some weird superhuman strength?  What can I say...Twin Peaks was weird! 

McGill and Robie are also awesome in Wes Craven's People Under the Stairs, a much underrated and really excellent comedy horror, which also stars Brandon Quintin Adams (the kid in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker).  If you've not see People Under the Stairs then you really should. 

In striking contracts to his Twin Peaks character, Evertte McGill plays a studded-leather-clad madman who lives as husband and wife with his sister (Robie), steals children and keeps them locked up in their fortress style house...it's better than it sounds honest!

And last but not least of the best Twin Peaks stars are the sweethearts of the Sheriff's department, Andy and Lucy -  Harry Goaz and Kimmy Robertson.  Their on-off again, at-work, who-is-the-baby-daddy-romance is brilliant.  Here they are choosing doughnuts in true Twin Peaks class comedy.

  

Other Twin Peaks stars to mention include:

•  Lara Flynne Boyle - (Laura Palmer's best friend) Waynes World, The Pratice
• Richard Beymer (Ben Horne, Audrey's father) who actually played Tony in the musical West Side Story
• Ray Wise (Leyland Plamer, Laura's father)
• James Marshall (used to date Laura secretly but after she dies starts dating Donna, Laura's best friend) - A Few Good Men, Gladiator (not the Russel Crow one)