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Twin Peaks

Year:
Duration:
47 min (29 episodes)
Genres:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rate:
9
Awards:
Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 10 wins & 42 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1990-04-08
Filming Locations: 534 South Lewis Street, Monroe, Washington, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt
Twin Peaks
Mary Jo Deschanel
Mary Jo Deschanel
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Michael Parks
Michael Parks
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Mary Stavin
Mary Stavin
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Austin Jack Lynch
Austin Jack Lynch
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Kyle MacLachlan
Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean
Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Mädchen Amick
Shelly Johnson
Dana Ashbrook
Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer
Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle
Donna Hayward
Sherilyn Fenn
Audrey Horne
Warren Frost
Dr. Will Hayward
Peggy Lipton
Norma Jennings
James Marshall
James Hurley
Everett McGill
Big Ed Hurley
Jack Nance
Pete Martell
Joan Chen
Jocelyn Packard
Kimmy Robertson
Lucy Moran
Michael Horse
Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Piper Laurie
Catherine Martell
Harry Goaz
Deputy Andy Brennan
Eric DaRe
Leo Johnson
Wendy Robie
Nadine Hurley
Ray Wise
Leland Palmer
Sheryl Lee
Madeleine 'Maddy' Ferguson
Russ Tamblyn
Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
Don S. Davis
Maj. Garland Briggs
Chris Mulkey
Hank Jennings
Gary Hershberger
Mike Nelson
Grace Zabriskie
Sarah Palmer
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Trivia
Dr. Jacoby is based on the late ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna. Their physical appearance is strikingly similar, their dress style is similar and they are both in the liberal arts professions. Dr. Jacoby holidays in Hawaii and has a Hawaiian wife, McKenna lived in Hawaii. Dr. Jacoby has a notable mushroom shaped lamp, McKenna studied and wrote widely on psychedelic mushroom culture.
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There were plans to spin Sherilyn Fenn's character Audrey Horne off into her own series, that didn't come off. Apparently, Audrey inspired David Lynch for Naomi Watts's character in Mulholland Drive (2001), as Fenn said in an interview in 1997 about the Audrey Horne spin-off, "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."
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The character of the one-armed man, was originally only to appear in a walk on role in the pilot as an homage to The Fugitive (1963). However, after David Lynch wrote the closed ending for the European version of the pilot, he decided to use the character to recite in infamous "Fire Walk With Me" poem. Highly impressed by the performance of Al Strobel, Lynch decided to make the character integral to the series mythology and give Strobel a recurring role on the show.
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Quotes
Ben Horne: We've lain a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight; all of Twin Peaks' best and brightest.
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Laura Palmer: I feel like I know her... but sometimes my arms bend back.
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Dale Cooper: In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.
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Faq
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A NOTE REGARDING THE FILM "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me."
A
The film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me was released in 1992, a year after the series was cancelled. David Lynch was not ready to leave the town and its inhabitants behind, and came up with the idea of a movie prequel detailing the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer.Although the fim is set almost entirely before the series, it is, however, meant to be viewed afterwards. The film assumes the viewer already knows who killed Laura Palmer, and about the existence and nature of the Black Lodge and its inhabitants. There is also clarification and expansion on the fate of Dale Cooper at the end of the series.
Q
Is Twin Peaks a real place?
A
No, Lynch and Frost went on a location scout to Washington, and a friend of Frost's recommended Snoqualmie Falls, just east of Seattle. They drove there and found all of the locations that they had written into the pilot episode. The towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend, Washington, which were the primary filming locations for stock Twin Peaks exterior footage, are about an hour's drive from the town of Roslyn, Washington, the town used for the series Northern Exposure. Many exterior scenes were filmed in wooded areas of Malibu, California.A scene in the Northern Exposure first-season episode "The Russian Flu" was shot at Snoqualmie Falls, which was also featured in the opening titles sequence of Twin Peaks. The background behind the actors of Invitation to Love is not a studio set, but the interior of the Ennis House, an architectural landmark of Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.
Q
How did the character of Killer BOB come about?
A
According to David Lynch, BOB, the disembodied spirit who is ultimately responsible for Laura Palmer's death, was not always intended to be in the show. Originally it was supposed to be Leland Palmer who was the murderer. The idea of BOB came about by accident. Frank Silva, who was working as a set dresser on the pilot was moving some furniture in Laura Palmer's bedroom and had moved a chest of drawers in front of the door. Someone jokingly warned him not to get stuck in the room and Lynch, who was standing nearby working on something else, had a vision of Silva locked in Laura Palmer's room. After finding out that Silva was also an actor, he decided to cast him in an as yet undetermined role in the show. On a whim Lynch filmed a panning shot of Laura's room with Silva hiding behind the bars of the foot of the bed. At this point he still did not know how he was going to use it. Later that day they were filming the scene where Laura's mother has a terrifying vision. They shot a shot where Mrs Palmer sits up bolt upright, terrified by what she's seen. Lynch was pleased by the performance but was informed by the director of photography that the shot was unusable because a crew member had been caught in the reflection in a mirror behind Mrs Palmer. When Lynch learned that the crew member was Frank Silva he was pleased and the idea of BOB as a malevolent spirit came about.
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Photos from cast
Alicia Witt Mary Jo Deschanel Betsy Lynn George Michael Parks Mary Stavin Austin Jack Lynch
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