Lara Flynn Boyle
Gender: Female
Born: 24th March 1970 (currently 41 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Twin Peaks, The Practice, Huff, Las Vegas, Amerika, Ally McBeal, Jack and Mike, The Hidden Room, Sable, Law & Order
Movies: Baby's Day Out, Happiness, Land of the Blind, Men in Black II, Red Rock West, Threesome, Red Meat, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Wayne's World, Afterglow, Mobsters, Poltergeist III, The Preppie Murder, How I Got Into College, Where the Day Takes You, The Rookie, Since You've Been Gone, Susan's Plan, West Texas Lullaby, The Dark Backward, Past Tense, The Big Squeeze, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story, The Temp, Equinox, Baby on Board, Jacob, Eye of the Storm, Speaking of Sex, Chain of Fools, The House Next Door, The Road to Wellville, Cougar Hunting, Past Tense, Deauville, Dead Poets Society, Terror On Highway 91, May Wine, Café Society , Crazy, Eye of the Storm
Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American film and television actress best known for her performances as Laura Palmer's best friend Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks and Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in The Practice. She has had a number of movie roles from the late 1980s through the present but has found the most recognition through her roles in television series.
Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Sally Boyle, a clerical worker, assistant, and manager. She is of mostly Irish descent, and also has an Italian-American great-grandfather. She is named after a character in Boris Pasternak's novel Dr. Zhivago. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin. Boyle studied at and graduated from The Chicago Academy for the Arts.
Boyle's first film role was a bit part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which earned her a SAG card, though her scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film. She then appeared in the mini-series Amerika (1987) and summer blockbuster Poltergeist III (1988) opposite Nancy Allen and Tom Skerritt. Although she was cast in Dead Poets Society (1989), her scenes were deleted, before landing her first major part, that of Donna
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