Happy Birthday: Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn

Born: February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

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

 [[interviewed by M.J. Simpson, 10/1/97, on director David Lynch] I’m sure you’ve heard that description, “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”. Yes. Because a part of him is really so sweet and pure and innocent. He’d tell me my take was “Jim-dandy”, or “Doggone it, Sherilyn, that was cool”. His direction is abstract. He doesn’t ever say “Go do this” or “Go do that”. He’ll just tell you some weird story, or when I did Wild at Heart (1990) David’s direction was, “Only think of this: bobby pins, lipstick, wallet, comb, that’s it”. He’s very creative and unafraid of taking chances. We’d sit down and, “Oh, I don’t like this scene”. In Twin Peaks (1990) he rewrote this entire scene and had me dance in the middle of the room for like three minutes. “Just groove, honey. Just keeeep moving”. I was like, “Oh, okay. I feel like an idiot. What am I doing? Okay”. Then you see it and with the music, he’s set this whole world up, this whole mood. I really respect him, he’s wonderful.

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