Grace Zabriskie's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Big Love Lois Henric… Under Suspicion Lily Cassins

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Bob Funk 2008 - The Brothel 2007 - Careless 2007 - License To Wed 2006 - Inland Empire 2004 - The Grudge 2004 - Chrystal 2004 - The Last Letter 2002 - No Good Deed 2000 - Gone in Sixty Seconds 1999 - Me and Will 1998 - Armageddon 1995 - The Passion of Darkly Noon 1994 - Drop Zone 1993 - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1992 - FernGully: The Last Rainforest 1992 - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 1991 - Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 - My Own Private Idaho 1990 - Wild at Heart 1990 - Child's Play 2 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy 1987 - Leonard, Part 6 1984 - Body Rock 1982 - An Officer and a Gentleman 1981 - Galaxy of Terror

BIOGRAPHY:

"Amazing Grace" Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She wrote her own original poetry, then performed at coffee shops and various artist hangouts in Atlanta. She was also a wonderful silk-screen printmaker. She moved to Hollywood and made her acting debut in Norma Rae (1979). She went on to appear in over 80 movies. She gave an acclaimed performance as Mrs. Ames in "East of Eden" (1981), the adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. Grace appeared in the highly acclaimed and Oscar-nominated An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and The Big Easy (1986), set in her beloved New Orleans. She worked with producer and director David Lynch (I), and was a series regular in the cult favorite "Twin Peaks" (1990) as Sarah Palmer, the part with which she is most often identified. She also appeared in Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) the same year. She has played a wide variety of roles, and gave a terrific performance in the Oscar-nominated Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and showed great character depth as the lonely and despondent widow in The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995).

Grace's more recent roles were in the zany Sparkler (1997) and in the big-name feature The House on Turk Street (2002), based on a short story by Dashiell Hammett. A woman of many talents, she is currently creating her own original paintings, unique sculptures and woodwork art that can be viewed in Los Angeles galleries.

Her visual arts, which include creating lamps or "sculptures with light" as she calls them, are available from the L.A.-based ArtHaus.


TRIVIA:

• Has two daughters. One of them, 'Marion Lane (II)' (qv), is a painter who works often in collaboration with her mother.
• Grace and her daughter 'Marion Lane (II)' (qv) hand craft fine art boxes for "ArtHaus" a Los Angeles gallery.
• All four of her grandparents were teachers, and Grace herself taught at an academy for black teen dropouts for a time.
• Grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans where her father started Lafitte's, a well-known café and bar on Bourbon Street, frequented by such prolific personalities as 'Tennessee Williams' (qv), 'Gore Vidal' (qv) and 'Truman Capote' (qv).