Sheryl Lee

Sheryl Lee's biography

Sheryl Lee is 55 years old actor born on on Saturday 22nd of April 1967. She is often nicknamed as Angel Face. According to year of birth 1967 she belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 22nd of April means she is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as stage actor, television actor. She is recently known as film actor.

Sheryl Lee's schools

We found 1 school She attended. Name of the school: University of Colorado Boulder.

Detailed informations about her schools

• (December 3, 2003) Attended the "UNICEF Goodwill Gala: 50 Years of Celebrity Advocacy", to raise money for the "Audrey Hepburn All Children in School Fund".

Sheryl Lee's career

Her main focus is to be actor.

Awards and competitions

Sheryl Lee's Awards

• Received the Spirit of Sundance Award for her body of work at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.
• Received the Women in Film's "Woman of the Year" Award. [1995]
• (March 27, 1993) Attended the 8th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
• (January 10, 1999) Attended the 25th Annual People's Choice Awards.

Sheryl Lee's Donations

• Participated in the 3rd Munchkin's Project Pink annual breast cancer awareness campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. The project consists of the donation of celebrity-decorated and autographed bath ducks, put up for auction. [October 2008]

Sheryl Lee's quotes

• I've often said that in acting school they teach you how to develop a character and how to bring in a character. But nobody teaches you how to let go. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• If something scares me, then I have to do it.
• The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
• [on being an actress] I wanted to get away from myself. And in the end it did nothing but bring me right back to myself. It's the divine cosmic joke. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character. I'm interested in that journey and that's the thing that keeps me in this business. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• You don't want to open up the Yellow Pages and look for a tantric sex teacher. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• I had a brilliant doctor tell me that the only part of an actor that knows that they're acting is their mind. (Rue Morgue, 2014)
• I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
• I never really thought of Laura as sexual because she's a victim of abuse. Sex and love have completely different meanings for her.
• Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, This I will do and this I won't. For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.
• I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.
• I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
• But ultimately what's important to me is whether or not I grow as a human being during the process. What happens after that is in God's hands.
• You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us. (PETA's Animal Times, 1999)
• Erotic scenes are actually very funny because they are always very technical. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)
• [on her first acting role] The first day of rehearsal something happened. I thought, 'This is it. I've found it' I still get terrified if I have to talk in front of a group of people. By having a character to play, it makes it safer. (Daily News, 1992)
• For 2,000 years, women's sexuality has been judged and put to shame-'harlot,' 'whore'. Before that, it was worshiped and respected. (New York Magazine, 1992)
• [on her work choices] I know that I certainly have thus far not chosen a real mainstream path. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• [on career choices] I've had some dry spells; sometimes I'm too picky for my own good. (San Francisco Chronicle, 1997)
• [on her frequency of appearing nude] I hate it. It's very uncomfortable to be in a room full of strangers, in bed naked, with a person you barely know. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)
• [on meeting Patti Bailey to prepare for her role in Love, Lies and Murder (1991) ] I just care so much about the woman that I'm playing. (Los Angeles Times, 1991)
• [on expectations for Twin Peaks (1990) ] I wish I'd had a handbook at the time to know how to get through all that craziness, but I didn't. I was winging it. (Daily Actor, 2010)
• [on playing dead] it really was an opportunity sort of meditate on death and I don't mean that in a morbid way, I mean that in an absolute way. (Daily Actor, 2010)
• [on Laura Palmer] That darkness was never not there for me, for my character and the double life that was going on, was, I mean that's dark. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• Playing a character like Laura Palmer, your brain does strange things to you. I still have nightmares in which I'm riding with Bob on an old abandoned train. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)
• When I die and see Oscar Wilde, I want to ask him his opinion, what he intended Salome's dance to be. I'd love to know. (New York Magazine, 1992)
• [on her role on Twin Peaks (1990)] Emotionally, it never left me that that sort of stuff happens in real life as well. It's heartbreaking. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• So many amazing women have lived on this planet whose stories have never been told. I want to find a way to get those stories told. (Reading Eagle, 1995)
• [on her role as Salome] The whole sexuality of the piece has been difficult for me. (Daily News, 1992)
• I love the films that I've worked on and the characters that I've played; I've learned so much from all of them. At the same time, I've done a lot of work that has never been seen. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• [on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] I was able to do things I never thought I could. It gave me an incredible sense of freedom. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)
• I'm on my eighth year of making these types of choices, and I'm kind of trying to reassess everything and figure out if I've been working in my own best interests. Maybe I need to be a little more open-minded. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• I can't imagine doing something that I wouldn't believe in. Everything inside of me locks up when I think of that. (Daily News, 1997)
• [on turning 30] It's a marker for me. Now I get to look back at a whole decade. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• [on her wish to star in a comedy] when you look at my body of work, there's not a lot of comedy in there. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• [on having dreams as a character] I always think of it as a green light when that happens. A sign that subconsciously, I'm opening up to the character. (Cinefantastique Magazine, November 1998)
• [on the iconic image of Laura Palmer] Well, it's not that I'm not fond of it, I can appreciate the image that is created, but because it's me and I'm dead, it's bizarre! (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• I mean for me because of playing Laura, I always felt the darker tone. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• [on singing] anytime you get to do something as an artist that is in the medium that you're not usually working in, it can be really delightful to be able to express yourself in a different way. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• [on music] I could just hear five notes of Laura's Theme and I was connected to Laura. Anywhere, anytime that I needed to be connected to that character I would have that music with me during filming and everything. (Twin Peaks Archive interview, 2013)
• I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one. (People, 1991)
• [on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)] We're not censored: Laura did walk on the wild side, and it's a lot wilder in the film. And I'm alive; that's a huge advantage right there. (Time International, 1992)
• [recalling filming with David Lynch on Halloween] Spooky things happen around David Lynch. It's not like they're intentional. They just happen. (Fire Walk With Me Press Kit, 1992)
• [on her role in Backbeat (1994)] One of my all-time favorites. I was so honored to play her [Astrid, girlfriend of original Beatle Stu Sutcliffe], and to explore that world. (New York Daily News, 1997)
• [on Mother Night (1996)] It's very heartbreaking [the way the film quickly vanished last year], because that was another creative experience for me that was so fulfilling and so rewarding. I did believe in that film. (New York Daily News, 1997)
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