"Twin Peaks": actors of the cult series then and now

Good news for all those who watched and loved the cult TV series "Twin Peaks": on May 21, the premiere of 2 episodes of the new season took place on the Showtime channel. In Russia, the TV series will be released on TV-3 24 hours after the show in the United States.

There are 18 episodes planned for the new season, which will be shown once a week.

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Laura Dern, Kimmy Robertson, Madchen Amik, Kyle McLachlan and Robert Forster at the presentation of the new season of Twin Peaks on January 9, 2017. Photo: David Buchan/Variety/REX/Shutterstock

The American drama series directed by David Lynch "Twin Peaks" was presented on April 12, 1990. The first season included eight episodes, including the pilot, but the story seemed so exciting to the audience that it was decided to shoot another season. In 1992, the prequel "Twin Peaks: Through the Fire" premiered, which included as many as 22 episodes. Of these, David Lynch shot only six, and different directors were invited to shoot the rest of the series. The plot of the series, which began as an experiment by Lynch and screenwriter David Frost, was built around small-town life and attempts to find the killer of schoolgirl Laura Palmer. When ABC ordered the second season, one of the requirements was the indispensable disclosure of the identity of the killer due to fears that otherwise the series would quickly get bored with viewers. Lynch planned that the killer would remain unsolved, but he had to give in to the customer's demands. Viewers were unhappy with this move, as the storyline became more and more confusing and by the end the series became more like a parody of itself.

Let's remember the cast of the series and see how the actors have changed over the years.

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Cheryl Lee, who played the same mysteriously murdered Laura Palmer, who haunted the audience in the early 90s, and is now acting in a movie. One of her last works was in the film "High Life" directed by Woody Allen. Pictured on the right is Cheryl Lee in 2014.

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Lara Flynn Boyle played the role of the girlfriend of the murdered Laura Palmer named Donna Hayward in the first season. The actress refused to appear in the second season due to a large number of other offers, and as a result, in the prequel, her character was played by actress Moira Kelly.

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Kyle McLachlan played FBI agent Dale Cooper, who comes to the town of Twin Peaks to investigate a mysterious murder. It was this role that became the finest hour for McLachlan, in which they saw not just another Hollywood handsome man, but a serious dramatic actor.

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Sherilyn Fenn played the seductive Audrey Horn, who tries to help Dale Cooper investigate the murder of Laura Palmer. For the sake of revealing the secret, Audrey is ready for a lot: she even gets a job in a brothel.

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Madchen Emick starred in "Twin Peaks" as a waitress Shelly Johnson, who is beaten by her husband. This role brought her fame. The actress will appear in the new season of the series.

Dana Ashbrook played Laura Palmer's boyfriend Bobby Briggs. His hero secretly met with the waitress Shelly Johnson even before Laura's death, but, as it turned out later, the murdered woman only used him as a source of cocaine.

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Wendy Roby played Nadine Hurley, Big Ed's one-eyed, mentally unstable wife. The actress follows the same role in her other works.

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Russ Tamblyn played the eccentric psychotherapist Lawrence Jacobi in Twin Peaks. The actor starred in many films and TV series, including "West Side Story" and "Django Unchained".

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Peggy Lipton played the role of Norma Jennings, the hostess of the cafe where Shelly Johnson works, and the mistress of Big Ed, the husband of Nadine Hurley. She will also appear in the new season of the series.

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Joan Chen (left) played Josie Packard, a native of Hong Kong and the wife of Andrew Packard, the owner of a local sawmill. The role of the sheriff of the town of Twin Peaks was played by Canadian actor Michael Ontkin (right).

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Grace Zabriskie (left) played Sarah Palmer, the mother of the murdered Laura. The girl's father, Leland Palmer, was played by Ray Wise (right). His hero is a lawyer whose main client is a local businessman Ben Horn.

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Moira Kelly played Donna, Laura Palmer's best friend, in the prequel series. Her heroine is obsessed with finding her friend's killer. By the end of the second season, it seems that Donna is actually Audrey Horn's paternal half—sister, but it is not confirmed in any way.

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Al Strobel (left) plays Philip Michael Gerard, a dark character in which two entities live. According to the plot, he cut off his "evil" hand himself. On the right is Michael J. Anderson, who played a Man from another Place.

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Director David Lynch appears in the series in the cameo role of Gordon Cole, the head of the FBI regional office.

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Everett McGill played the role of Big Ed. The actor has been retired for quite some time, but David Lynch invited him to star in the new season of Twin Peaks, and he agreed.

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Frank Silva was originally a decorator on the set of the series, but it was he who played Bob, an evil spirit inhabiting the surrounding Twin Peaks forests. The actor died in 1995 at the age of 44 from complications caused by AIDS.