![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1970 in Reno, NV Biography:A student of dance, music and art as a child in Reno, Nevada, "Madchen Amick" decided to focus on acting as a teenager, and shortly thereafter, she got her major break in "David Lynch"'s innovative TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990). After moving to L.A. at 16, Amick appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and Baywatch, and mounted a small role in "The Borrower" (1991), "John McNaughton"'s ill-fated gorefest about a roving alien of ere-shifting appearance who rips heads from his victims and uses them as his own. Amick became famous, however, as waitress Shelly Johnson, one of several beautiful young small-town women harboring terrible secrets, on the much-praised and memorably-eccentric "Twin Peaks". More a succès d'estime than a long-running hit, "Twin Peaks" still seemed poised to jump-start the careers of the principal actors, including Amick. Alas, this expectation failed to materialize. Her... Full Biography
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