- Although actress Elizabeth Taylor fought the unauthorized biography Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), she found that Fenn aptly portrayed her.
- Her father Leo Fenn was the personal manager of Alice Cooper for 13 years. He also managed "The Billion Dollar Babies" and Suzi Quatro's "The Pleasure Seekers".
- 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.
- Dita Von Teese said Fenn's Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.
- Her grandfather, Art Quatro, was a jazz band musician. His band was the 'Art Quatro Trio'.
- Sherilyn's name is scrawled across Johnny Depp's helmet in the movie Platoon (1986).
- Director David Lynch described Sherilyn as "Five feet of heaven in a ponytail" and said she makes him think of a porcelain doll.
- Director David Lynch said of her: "She's a mysterious girl and I think that actresses like her who have a mystery - where there's something hiding beneath the surface - are the really interesting ones".
- While filming NBC's Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995), Fenn fought daily to keep integrity in the script. Fenn's priority was to respectfully and accurately portray Elizabeth Taylor.
- In 1992 photographer George Hurrell Sr. took a series of photographs of Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts and Sean Penn. In these portraits he recreated his style of the 1930s, with the actors posing in costumes, hairstyle and makeup of the period.
- Daughter of keyboard player Arlene Quatro who played in the Suzi Quatro band, that Sherilyn's father managed.
- Worked for 2 months as a Playboy bunny in LA when she was 19.
- When asked why she did cast Fenn for two different roles on Gilmore Girls (2000), creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said: "I love Sherilyn so much and I don't care. One thing about the show is I just want the best people. I've just been looking constantly for a time to work with Sherilyn, and I'm getting very old and I could just get hit by a truck at any minute. I just simply can't put it off that long, so I'd just rather get her in and have her part of my world."
- Made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, along with Mädchen Amick and Lara Flynn Boyle while promoting Twin Peaks (1990). (October 1990)
- Comic book artist Jeff Johnson used a photo from her December 1990 Playboy pictorial as a reference to draw the character of Amora the Enchantress for the October 1991 cover of Marvel's "Wonder Man".
- Auditioned for the Robin Wright role in The Princess Bride (1987).
- Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
- Was originally cast as Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn for the WB show Birds of Prey (2002) in its pilot episode, but was replaced for the rest of the season by Mia Sara. Fenn dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
- Her car accident scene in Wild at Heart (1990) came from director David Lynch's impression of Fenn as a porcelain doll, and from the idea of seeing a porcelain doll breaking. He kept telling her about that, and that's how the scene was born. Lynch said of the scene, "I just pictured her being able to do this. She's like a broken china doll". Lynch got the same inspiration for the car accident scene in Mulholland Drive (2001). His direction to actress Laura Harring was to act like a broken porcelain doll.
- Her father's ancestry was Irish, Bohemian Czech, German, English, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish. Her mother is of half Italian and half Hungarian descent. Her mother's name Quatro is short for Quatrocchio.
- Her Twin Peaks (1990) character Audrey Horne was chosen by UGO.com as one of the "50 Best TV Character of All Time" (ranked #24). (2008)
- Made the cover of Playboy magazine in December 1990.
- Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. (1991)
- Wished to portray silent-screen star Clara Bow.
- Grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
- Inspired Norwegian hard rock band 'Audrey Horne', named after Fenn's character in Twin Peaks (1990).
- She is featured in make-up artist Paul Starr's 2005 book "Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations With Thirty Celebrated Women". Starr has worked with Sherilyn and notably made the arch of her eyebrows more extreme as he found that was a good trademark.
- Chosen by Batman fans as a perfect Selina Kyle/Catwoman in a Batman dream cast.
- Her name is translated in Chinese as "Xuelin Fen", which means "Snow Jade".
- Of Mice and Men (1992) co-star John Malkovich is to her one of the best actors.
- Starred in a season three episode of Gilmore Girls (2000), which was the backdoor pilot for a California-set spin-off titled "Windward Circle", that was to have starred Milo Ventimiglia, Rob Estes and Fenn. The network dropped the project citing cost issues due to filming on location in Venice, California. "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted to work with Sherilyn Fenn again and wrote the character of Anna Nardini with Fenn in mind, in order to bring her back in the series. The character of Anna was originally to have a strong enough presence to be a potential threat to the character of Lorelai. However, after Sherman-Palladino left the show, the producers changed the direction originally intended for the character, as they decided to make her a villain in a custody battle.
- Her acting coach was Roy London who directed the movie Diary of a Hitman (1991), starring Fenn and Forest Whitaker.
- (December 15, 1993) Her son Myles Holliday with ex-husband Toulouse Holliday, was born in their home in Los Angeles.
- Starred in an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989) along with Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow and "Humphrey Bogart". Director Robert Zemeckis used footage of Bogart he included in the episode. Sherilyn plays Bogart's lover. Fenn and Rossellini had already co- starred in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and both guest-starred in the third season of Friends (1994).
- Co-starred in The Wild Life (1984) along with then-boyfriend Chris Penn.
- Guest-starred opposite her then-fiancé Johnny Depp in the 21 Jump Street (1987) episode, Blindsided (1987).
- There were plans to spin her Twin Peaks (1990) character Audrey Horne off into her own series, that didn't come off. Apparently, Fenn's character inspired David Lynch for Laura Harring's character in Mulholland Drive (2001), as Fenn said in an interview in 1997, "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."
- Chose her then-boyfriend photographer Barry Hollywood to photograph her in the December 1990 issue of Playboy magazine.
- Singer and composer Screamin' Jay Hawkins wrote and recorded in 1993 a song entitled "Sherilyn Fenn", featured on his album "Stone Crazy". The song is an ode to Fenn, who worked with Hawkins in Two Moon Junction (1988).
- (August 6, 2007) Her second son Christian James was born. Father is boyfriend Dylan Stewart, a professional freelance Macintosh consultant and son of writer/director Douglas Day Stewart.
- (Winter 1990-1991) Made the cover of In Fashion magazine alongside Billy Idol.
- She was originally considered by Amy Sherman-Palladino for the role of Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls (2000), but she was busy working on Rude Awakening (1998) at the time and the role went to Lauren Graham. Sherman-Palladino then brought Fenn back twice in the series: as Sasha in the backdoor pilot episode for a planned spin-off series, and for the recurring part of Anna Nardini.
- Her favorite Elizabeth Taylor movies are A Place in the Sun (1951), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and The Sandpiper (1965).
- Joined the executive team of child enrichment program CosmiKids as executive director of the film and television division. (2007)
- According to Fenn, her acting coach Roy London played a pivotal role in her development as an actress.
- Illustrator Sean Philips used her as a reference to draw the character of Felicity for his 2011 crime comic book "Criminal: The Last of the Innocent".
- At the beginning of the shooting of the second season of Twin Peaks (1990), came down with a bad case of pneumonia, making headlines that the shooting of the series might be affected or that she might have to leave the show. As writer/producer Harley Peyton said in an interview: "It looked like it could give us some really serious problems. It turned out all right. She was tremendous and recovered rather quickly and came back sooner than she had to. We had different directors shooting each day and two directors shooting in a single day and, in fact, got all of her scenes done".
- Chosen by FHM magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" (ranked #10). (1995)
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