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Part 17 (Twin Peaks)
"Part 17", also known as "The Return, Part 17", is the 17th episode of the Twin Peaks (season 3), third season of the TV series ''Twin Peaks''. It was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch, directed by Lynch, and stars Kyle MacLachlan. "Part 17" was broadcast on Showtime (TV network), Showtime along with Part 18 (Twin Peaks), Part 18 on September 3, 2017, and seen by an audience of 254,000 viewers in the United States. It received widespread acclaim. Plot Background The small town of Twin Peaks, Washington, has been shocked by the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and the attempted murder of her friend List of characters in Twin Peaks#Ronette Pulaski, Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine). FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) has been sent to the town to investigate and has discovered that the killer was Laura's father, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), who acted while possessed by a demonic entity, Killer BOB (Frank Silva). At the Episode 29 (Twin Peaks), end of ...
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Twin Peaks
''Twin Peaks'' is an American Mystery fiction, mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company, ABC on April 8, 1990, and originally ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 1991. The show returned in 2017 for a Twin Peaks (season 3), third season on Showtime (TV network), Showtime. The series follows an investigation, headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and local Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean), into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington (state), Washington. The show's narrative draws on elements of detective fiction, but its uncanny tone, supernatural elements, and Camp (style), campy, melodramatic portrayal of eccentric characters also draws from American soap opera and horror film, horror tropes. Like much of Lynch's work, it is distinguished by surrealism, offbeat humor, and distinctive cinem ...
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Julee Cruise
Julee Ann Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums beginning with 1989's ''Floating into the Night''. Cruise is best known for her 1989 single "Falling"; an instrumental version was used as the theme song for the television series ''Twin Peaks'' in which she appeared in a recurring role as a roadhouse singer. She reprised the role in the 1992 movie '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me'' (which also featured her music), and in the 2017 revival series '' Twin Peaks: The Return''. She was also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant-garde 1990 theater production ''Industrial Symphony No. 1,'' which was filmed and released on home media. Other notable singles included " Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" (1990) and "If I Survive" (1999) by the band Hybrid, which featured her vocals. In th ...
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Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (born July 31, 1929) is an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film '' Bus Stop'' (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include ''A Hatful of Rain'' (1957), '' Shake Hands with the Devil'' (1959, with James Cagney), ''One Foot in Hell'' (1960, with Alan Ladd), '' The Hoodlum Priest'' (1961), ''Advise & Consent'' (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), ''Baby the Rain Must Fall'' (1965, with Steve McQueen), ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' (1972), ''Deadly Hero'' (1975), and ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986, with Kathleen Turner). Murray starred in television series such as '' The Outcasts'' (1968–1969), '' Knots Landing'' (1979–1981), and ''Twin Peaks'' (2017). Early life and career Murray was born in 1929, the second of three children, to Dennis Aloisius Murray, a Broadway dance director and stage manager, and Ethel Murr ...
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James Marshall (actor)
James David Greenblatt (born January 2, 1967), best known as James Marshall, is an American actor, known for playing the character James Hurley in the television series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991), its 1992 prequel film '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'', and its 2017 revival, and for his role as Private Louden Downey in ''A Few Good Men'' (1992). Early life Marshall was born in Queens, New York. His father, William R. Greenblatt, was a Radio City Music Hall publicist, and his mother, Charlotte Green, danced with The Rockettes as Charlotte Bullard. The family moved from New Jersey to California in the 1980s.Feeley, Jef. "Roche to Face Hollywood Stars Sheen, Dennehy in New Jersey Accutane Trial." Bloomberg News. July 30, 2010/ref> Marshall has one sister, Kat Green, a music and film producer. Career Marshall's feature debut film was the Charlie Sheen vehicle, ''Cadence'' (1990). He played the lead role in '' Gladiator'' (1992). Since then, Marshall has appeared in numerous film ...
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Laura Palmer
Laura Palmer is a fictional character in the ''Twin Peaks'' franchise. She is portrayed by Sheryl Lee and was created by the series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost. She first appears in the ABC original series ''Twin Peaks''. A high school student whose death is the catalyst for the events of the series, Palmer is the protagonist in Lynch's prequel film '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me'' (1992), which depicts the final week of her life leading up to her murder. Laura also appears in the novels, '' Twin Peaks: The Return'' (2017), and a variety of merchandise based on the series. Appearances In television Laura (played by Sheryl Lee, who also played her cousin Maddy Ferguson), was well known and loved in Twin Peaks; she volunteered at Meals on Wheels, was her school's Homecoming Queen, and was (apparently) the darling of her parents, Sarah (Grace Zabriskie) and Leland (Ray Wise). However, the series gradually revealed that Laura led a double life: she was a cocaine add ...
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Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lynn Lee (born April 22, 1967) is a German-born American film, stage, and television actress. After studying acting in college, Lee relocated to Seattle, Washington to work in theater, where she was cast by David Lynch as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson on the 1990 television series ''Twin Peaks'' and in the 1992 film '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me''. After completing ''Twin Peaks'', she returned to theater, appearing in the title role of '' Salome'' on Broadway opposite Al Pacino. Her film roles include Astrid Kirchherr in ''Backbeat'' (1994), as well as a lead role in the drama ''Mother Night'' (1996), the role of Katrina in John Carpenter's '' Vampires'' (1998) and the part of April in ''Winter's Bone'' (2010). She has had recurring roles on such television series as ''One Tree Hill'' (2005–06) and ''Dirty Sexy Money'' (2007–2009), and later reprised her role of Laura Palmer in the Showtime revival of ''Twin Peaks'' in 2017. Early life Lee was born in Augsburg, ...
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Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films ''The Hustler'' (1961), '' Carrie'' (1976), and '' Children of a Lesser God'' (1986), all of which brought her Academy Award nominations. She is also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of '' Days of Wine and Roses'', and as Catherine Martell in the television series ''Twin Peaks'', for which she won a Golden Globe Award in 1991 and is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Early life Piper Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, the younger of two children (both girls) of Alfred Jacobs, a furniture dealer, and his wife, Charlotte Sadie ( Alperin) Jacobs. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She was delivered, according to her 2011 autobiography ''Learning to Live Out Loud'', in a one-bed ...
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Robert Knepper
Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the Fox drama series '' Prison Break'' (2005–2009, 2017), Samuel Sullivan in the final season of the NBC series ''Heroes'' (2009–2010), Angus McDonough in The CW series '' iZombie'' (2015–2018) and Rodney Mitchum in Showtime's revival of ''Twin Peaks'' (2017). He has also appeared in films such as ''Hitman'' (2007), ''Transporter 3'' (2008) and '' Jack Reacher: Never Go Back'' (2016). Early life Knepper was born in Fremont, Ohio, and raised in Maumee, Ohio, the son of Pat Deck and Donald Knepper, a veterinarian. He was interested in acting from an early age, due to his mother's involvement as a props-handler at a community theater. After graduating from Maumee High School in 1977, he attended Northwestern University; during this time, Knepper also obtained professional roles in plays in Chicago. Nearing the completion of his degree, Knepper quit North ...
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Michael Horse
Michael Horse (born Michael James Heinrich; December 21, 1949) is an American actor known for his portrayals of Native American characters in film and television. Early life Horse was born Michael James Heinrich near Tucson, Arizona, on December 21, 1949. At age 10, Horse moved to Los Angeles. His mother, Nancie Belle Posten, was Swedish. Horse's adoptive father, George Heinrich, was born in Florida to parents from Austria. Nancie died in California in 2004. Career Horse's film debut came in the role of Tonto in the 1981 movie, ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'', which was a commercial failure. Before taking the role, Horse had been concerned that the character might be perceived as a stereotype. After appearing in David Lynch's short film ''The Cowboy and the Frenchman'' (1988), Horse portrayed Deputy Hawk, a Native American policeman, in Lynch's TV series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–91). He also acted in ''Passenger 57'' (1992), ''House of Cards'' (1993), the 1990s version of t ...
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Harry Goaz
Harry Goaz (born December 27, 1960 as Harry Preston King) is an American actor best known for his roles as Deputy Andy Brennan in the TV drama series, ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991, 2017), and as Sgt. Knight in the NBC TV series, '' Eerie Indiana'' (1991–1992). Early life and education He was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and grew up in Beaumont, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a degree in fine arts. He also studied acting under William Traylor at The Loft Studio in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' .... Career Goaz first met David Lynch while driving him to a memorial tribute to Roy Orbison where Lynch decided to cast him for the role of Deputy Andy Brennan in the TV series ''Twin ...
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Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in ''Medium Cool'' (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Abdul Rafai in ''The Delta Force'' (1986), and Max Cherry in ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Forster's varied filmography includes: '' Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), ''Alligator'' (1980), ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000), ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001), ''The Descendants'' (2011), '' Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013), ''London Has Fallen'' (2016), ''What They Had'' (2018), and ''The Wolf of Snow Hollow'' (2020). He also had prominent roles in television series such as ''Banyon'' (1971–1973), ''Heroes'' (2007–2008), ''Twin Peaks'' (2017) and the ''Breaking Bad'' episode " Granite State" as Ed Galbraith, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television. He reprised the role in the film '' ...
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Miguel Ferrer
Miguel José Ferrer (February 7, 1955 – January 19, 2017) was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film ''RoboCop''. Other film roles include Quigley in ''Blank Check'' (1994), Harbinger in ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'' (1993), Shan Yu in ''Mulan'' (1998), Eduardo Ruiz in ''Traffic'' (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in ''Iron Man 3'' (2013). Ferrer's notable television roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991, 2017), Tarakudo on ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' (2000–2005), Dr. Garret Macy on ''Crossing Jordan'' (2001–2007) and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' (2012–2017). Early life Ferrer was born on February 7, 1955, in Santa Monica, California, the oldest of five children of Academy Award-winning Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney, who was of English, Irish and German descent. Ferrer's siblings were sisters Maria and Monsita, and brothers Gabriel (later the ...
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