Slender-in-the-extreme Lara Flynn Boyle is best known for her television roles, from
Twin Peaks (1990) to
The Practice (1997-2003) and
Las Vegas (2005). Boyle was still a student at the Chicago Academy for the Arts when she was cast in the TV mini-series
Amerika (1987). After a few movie roles, including TV's
The Preppie Murder (1989), Boyle had one of her more memorable roles as Donna Hayward in
David Lynch's off-beat soap opera
Twin Peaks. She then appeared in supporting roles in feature films, including
Wayne's World (1992, starring
Mike Myers) and
Red Rock West (1992, with
Nicolas Cage), and put her
femme fatale looks to good use as the lead player in
The Temp (1993). In 1997 she returned to series television, playing a tough lawyer in
The Practice. The success of the show kept her in the spotlight and earned her an Emmy nomination, and her personal life -- a romance with
Jack Nicholson and rumors of anorexia -- kept her in the gossip columns. Since
The Practice Boyle has appeared in the
Hank Azaria cable series
Huff (2004) and in NBC's
Las Vegas (as casino owner Monica Mancuso).
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