Sherilyn Fenn

Following that, she has found consistent work with roles in limited-release and TV movies, and had some success with a return to series television in Showtime's Rude Awakening (1998-2001). The Station Agent, Me Without You), but none have been great commercial successes. Unfortunately, her next movie was the infamously bad Boxing Helena, directed by Lynch's daughter Jennifer, in which Fenn played a role turned down by Kim Basinger. She has been in a half-dozen subsequent films, some of them well-reviewed (e.g. Lynch also gave her a memorable cameo as a woman involved in a car accident in Wild at Heart, and she appeared in Gary Sinise's film adaptation of Of Mice and Men (1992). Arlene developed a crush on the President but when she and Betsy saw the real Nixon--mean, foul-mouthed, and scheming--they turned to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to tell the real story of what was going on in the White House, becoming their source "Deep Throat". Though very well reviewed, the film was a flop at the box office, making back less than half its production costs. Noteriety came when she was cast by David Lynch as the sultry Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks. Nixon directed by Andrew Fleming in which she and her friend Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) stumbled onto the Watergate burglary, became the president's dog walkers, and fed Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Leonid Brezhnev pot brownies.

Her career began inauspiciously with a number of B-movies in including Zombie High (1987) and Two Moon Junction (1988). Her first starring role in films was as Arlene in Dick (1999), a satire on Richard M. Sherilyn Fenn (born 'Sheryl Ann Fenn' February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Hollywood actress. The show would run for six seasons, from 1998 to 2003. Jen was everything her grandmother was not: jaded, cynical, irreligious, and more, leading to frequent arguments and her eventually being kicked out of the house. On Dawson's Creek, her character, only fifteen, had been too much for her parents to handle, drinking, partying, having sex from age twelve, so she was exiled from her home in New York, New York to live in Capeside, Massachusetts with her maternal grandmother.

She won several small roles before she was cast as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek, the part that would make her a star. She graduated from high school at fifteen and was emancipated from her parents so she could pursue an acting career. Her mother took her to auditions in Los Angeles where she won her first film role, as a space alien who turned into Natasha Henstridge in the 1995 movie Species. When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California.

Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry, a commodities broker, and Carla Williams, a homemaker. Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress best known as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek..