Curiosidades

Although actress Elizabeth Taylor fought the unauthorized biography Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), she found that Fenn aptly portrayed her.

Her father Leo Fenn was the personal manager of Alice Cooper for 13 years. He also managed "The Billion Dollar Babies" and Suzi Quatro's "The Pleasure Seekers".

Was engaged to Johnny Depp, whom she met on the set of the 1985 short student film "Dummies". Their relationship lasted three and a half years.

Dita Von Teese said Fenn's Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.

Sherilyn's name is scrawled across Johnny Depp's helmet in the movie Platoon (1986).

Director David Lynch described Sherilyn as "Five feet of heaven in a ponytail" and said she makes him think of a porcelain doll.

Director David Lynch said of her: "She's a mysterious girl and I think that actresses like her who have a mystery - where there's something hiding beneath the surface - are the really interesting ones".

While filming NBC's Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), Fenn fought daily to keep integrity in the script. Fenn's priority was to respectfully and accurately portray Elizabeth Taylor.

Shares with friend/former boyfriend Prince a great interest in silent- screen star Clara Bow, whom Fenn wished to portray.

Daughter of keyboard player Arlene Quatro who played in the Suzi Quatro band, that Sherilyn's father managed.

In 1992 photographer George Hurrell Sr. took a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts and Sean Penn. In these portraits he recreated his style of the 1930s, with the actors posing in costumes, hairstyle and makeup of the period.

Her grandfather, Art Quatro, was a jazz band musician. His band was the 'Art Quatro Trio'.

When asked why she did cast Fenn for two different roles on Gilmore Girls: Tal Mãe, Tal Filha (2000), creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said: "I love Sherilyn so much and I don't care. One thing about the show is I just want the best people. I've just been looking constantly for a time to work with Sherilyn, and I'm getting very old and I could just get hit by a truck at any minute. I just simply can't put it off that long, so I'd just rather get her in and have her part of my world."

Made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, along with Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle while promoting Twin Peaks (1990). (outubro de 1990)

Worked for 2 months as a Playboy bunny in LA when she was 19.

Was originally cast as Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn for the WB show Aves de Rapina (2002) in its pilot episode, but was replaced for the rest of the season by Mia Sara. Fenn dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

Her car accident scene in Coração Selvagem (1990) came from director David Lynch's impression of Fenn as a porcelain doll, and from the idea of seeing a porcelain doll breaking. He kept telling her about that, and that's how the scene was born. Lynch said of the scene, "I just pictured her being able to do this. She's like a broken china doll". Lynch got the same inspiration for the car accident scene in Cidade dos Sonhos (2001). His direction to actress Laura Harring was to act like a broken porcelain doll.

Auditioned for the Robin Wright role in A Princesa Prometida (1987).

Her Twin Peaks (1990) character Audrey Horne was chosen by UGO.com as one of the "50 Best TV Character of All Time" (ranked #24). (2008)

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. (1991)

Niece of 1970s pop singer Suzi Quatro and musicians Patti Quatro, Michael Quatro, and Nancy Quatro.

Her father's ancestry was Irish, Bohemian Czech, German, English, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish. Her mother is of half Italian and half Hungarian descent. Her mother's name Quatro is short for Quatrocchio.

She is featured in make-up artist Paul Starr's 2005 book "Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations With Thirty Celebrated Women". Starr has worked with Sherilyn and notably made the arch of her eyebrows more extreme as he found that was a good trademark.

Made the cover of Playboy magazine in December 1990.

Grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Comic book artist Jeff Johnson used a photo from her December 1990 Playboy pictorial as a reference to draw the character of Amora the Enchantress for the October 1991 cover of Marvel's "Wonder Man".

Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

Chosen by Batman fans as a perfect Selina Kyle/Catwoman in a Batman dream cast.

Ratos e Homens (1992) co-star John Malkovich is to her one of the best actors.

Wished to portray silent-screen star Clara Bow.

Inspired Norwegian hard rock band 'Audrey Horne', named after Fenn's character in Twin Peaks (1990).

Her name is translated in Chinese as "Xuelin Fen", which means "Snow Jade".

Guest-starred opposite her then-fiancé Johnny Depp in the Anjos da Lei (1987) episode, Blindsided (1987).

There were plans to spin her Twin Peaks (1990) character Audrey Horne off into her own series, that didn't come off. Apparently, Fenn's character inspired David Lynch for Laura Harring's character in Cidade dos Sonhos (2001), as Fenn said in an interview in 1997, "David was talking about 'Mulholland Drive', he talked about like 'Audrey goes to Hollywood'. She's driving along Mulholland in this convertible car... But it didn't end up happening."

Starred in a season three episode of Gilmore Girls: Tal Mãe, Tal Filha (2000), which was the backdoor pilot for a California-set spin-off titled "Windward Circle", that was to have starred Milo Ventimiglia, Rob Estes and Fenn. The network dropped the project citing cost issues due to filming on location in Venice, California. "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted to work with Sherilyn Fenn again and wrote the character of Anna Nardini with Fenn in mind, in order to bring her back in the series. The character of Anna was originally to have a strong enough presence to be a potential threat to the character of Lorelai. However, after Sherman-Palladino left the show, the producers changed the direction originally intended for the character, as they decided to make her a villain in a custody battle.

(December 15, 1993) Her son Myles Holliday with ex-husband Toulouse Holliday, was born in their home in Los Angeles.

Starred in an episode of Contos da Cripta (1989) along with Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow and "Humphrey Bogart". Director Robert Zemeckis used footage of Bogart he included in the episode. Sherilyn plays Bogart's lover. Fenn and Rossellini had already co- starred in David Lynch's Coração Selvagem (1990) and both guest-starred in the third season of Friends (1994).

Her acting coach was Roy London who directed the movie Dominada pelo Medo (1991), starring Fenn and Forest Whitaker.

She was originally considered by Amy Sherman-Palladino for the role of Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls: Tal Mãe, Tal Filha (2000), but she was busy working on Rude Awakening (1998) at the time and the role went to Lauren Graham. Sherman-Palladino then brought Fenn back twice in the series: as Sasha in the backdoor pilot episode for a planned spin-off series, and for the recurring part of Anna Nardini.

Co-starred in Vida Maluca (1984) along with then-boyfriend Chris Penn.

At the beginning of the shooting of the second season of Twin Peaks (1990), came down with a bad case of pneumonia, making headlines that the shooting of the series might be affected or that she might have to leave the show. As writer/producer Harley Peyton said in an interview: "It looked like it could give us some really serious problems. It turned out all right. She was tremendous and recovered rather quickly and came back sooner than she had to. We had different directors shooting each day and two directors shooting in a single day and, in fact, got all of her scenes done".

Joined the executive team of child enrichment program CosmiKids as executive director of the film and television division. (2007)

Illustrator Sean Phillips used her as a reference to draw the character of Felicity for his 2011 crime comic book "Criminal: The Last of the Innocent".

During the shooting of Darkness Falls (1999) in the UK, contemplated moving to London, being tired of Hollywood. Co-star Ray Winstone encouraged her to come to England. So did British director Mike Figgis, who said it would be very positive for her to do that, as England is quite different from Hollywood. He told her she has a great body of work and she could work all the time in Europe. (1997)

Attended the 2010 Fall Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, which held a Twin Peaks (1990) reunion. (outubro de 2010)

Chose her then-boyfriend photographer Barry Hollywood to photograph her in the December 1990 issue of Playboy magazine.

Created a blog called "Postcards from the Ledge". (janeiro de 2009)

Singer and composer Screamin' Jay Hawkins wrote and recorded in 1993 a song entitled "Sherilyn Fenn", featured on his album "Stone Crazy". The song is an ode to Fenn, who worked with Hawkins in Um Toque de Sedução (1988).

(August 6, 2007) Her second son Christian James was born. Father is boyfriend Dylan Stewart, a professional freelance Macintosh consultant and son of writer/director Douglas Day Stewart.

Chosen by FHM magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" (ranked #10). (1995)