Biography
Grace Zabriskie (born May 17, 1941) is an American actress. She has appeared in many popular American films and television series such as Twin Peaks and Big Love. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
2025
as Self
An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".
Bad Painter
2025
as Mother
Albert Oehlen steps behind the camera to present a portrait of himself, in life and at work, albeit substituted by actor and similarly brazen iconocla...
Cryptozoo
2021
as Joan (voice)
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them...
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
2021
as Self
An extensive interview with Palmer house owner and one-time Twin Peaks performer Mary Reber, with newly unearthed history and information about the ho...
Polaroid
2019
as Lena Sable
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take...
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and hi...
Rosemont
2015
as Josephine
Four people become trapped in the once-vibrant Rosemont Lodge during a blizzard before Christmas.
The Makings of You
2014
as Margaret
Nothing happens until two people fall in love – and then the whole world changes.
The Judge
2014
as Mrs. Blackwell
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of mur...
Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
2014
as Herself
Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
Between Two Worlds
2014
as Self
"Between Two Worlds" is a featurette included in the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Twin Peaks: From Z to A Blu-ray releases. It features David Ly...
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
as Sarah Palmer
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of ...
Blind Malice
2014
as Nanna
Karen, a visually impaired teen and her grandmother make a routine visit to clean the family-owned rental property. But things become unsettling when ...
Wrong Cops
2013
as Donna (Duke's mother)
A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
Wrong Cops: Chapter 1
2012
as Duke's Mother
Duke, a crooked and music-mad cop, patrols in Los Angeles’ streets, music blasting and meets a young techno lover, David Dolores Frank. Appalled by th...
My Own Private River
2012
as Alena (archive footage)
Unused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Mrs. McCullum
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...
Bob Funk
2009
as Ms. Funk
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who...
Brothel
2008
as Madam
In a once thriving Arizona mining town, a woman starts renovating an abandoned brothel and meets the ghosts who still haunt it.
License to Wed
2007
as Grandma Jones
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't...
Inland Empire
2006
as Visitor #1
As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Spooks & Creeps
2004
as Olga ("A Fate Foretold")
This compendium of six horror shorts starring Matthew Glave, Alice Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Gayheart serves up a ghoulish cinematic buffet. T...
The Grudge
2004
as Emma Williams
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claimin...
Chrystal
2004
as Gladys
Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured his wife, Joe finally comes home and tries to redee...
The Last Letter
2004
as Mrs. Allison
As they file into the deliberation room, 11 jurors are ready to convict the defendant of 14 counts of murder, but one holdout forces the others to ree...
The Glow
2002
as Sylvia Goodstein
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
No Good Deed
2002
as Mrs. Quarre
While doing a friend a favour and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a b...
R.S.V.P.
2002
as Mary Franklin
A psychology student invites a group of his friends and teacher to a drug and alcohol-fueled party where he plans to murder them all.
Postcards From The Cast
2001
as Self
"Postcards From The Cast" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It was later re-released in the B...
Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
2001
as Self
"Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks" is a featurette originally released on the 2001 DVD release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It feature...
They Crawl
2001
as Mrs. Gage
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's broth...
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
as Helen Raines
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" R...
Home: The Horror Story
2000
as Grace Parkinson
Bob Parkinson, the conservative patriarch of a suburban family, thinks he's a nice guy. After a brain operation, however, his latent prejudices turn i...
Me and Will
1999
as Edith
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, ...
Trash
1999
as Mrs. DeMarie
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two ...
A Texas Funeral
1999
as Murtis
It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta. But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to im...
Dante's View
1998
as Geraldine
Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very ...
Houdini
1998
as Mrs. Weiss
The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
Armageddon
1998
as Dottie
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...
The Devil's Child
1997
as Rose DeMarco
A woman's mother makes a last-minute deal with the Devil to save her daughter's life, not realizing that her daughter's life is her stake. The daughte...
Annie's Garden
1997
as Mrs. Barnes
In front of his 15-year-old son, a father loses his temper and strikes his younger daughter, thinking she's trying to run away from him. Jump ahead te...
Sparkler
1997
as Sherri
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel ...
Dead Men Can't Dance
1997
as Brig. Gen. Burke
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. ...
George B.
1997
as Mother
After winning money gambling in Reno, George enjoys a streak of luck that brings him happiness and success. He dates a beautiful woman and works with ...
Psycho Sushi
1997
as Great Aunt
An American model is pursued by Yakuza gangsters when she writes a book about her experience modeling in Japan.
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
as Granny
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti...
Murder at My Door
1996
as Grandma
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
A Family Thing
1996
as Ruby
Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother...
A Promise to Carolyn
1996
as Francie Harper
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together the...
Seed
1996
as Mother's voice
In the course of a single night, Miriam realizes that her life is worth more than the $65 price tag she puts on it.
Crazy for a Kiss
1995
as Pearl Kinross
On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at t...
The Passion of Darkly Noon
1995
as Roxy
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
Drop Zone
1994
as Winona
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered ...
The Crew
1994
as Gloria Pierce
Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by h...
Desert Winds
1994
as Jackie's Mother
Jackie and Eugene are joined by a mystical wind tunnel which enables them to speak across a 500-mile desert. Believed by the Indians to be an omen of ...
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as Mrs. Hankshaw
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
Double Deception
1993
An ex-call girl hires private investigator Jon Kane to find her missing husband.
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993
as Ethel
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. ...
Bonds of Love
1993
as Emma Smith
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.
A House of Secrets and Lies
1992
as Ruby
A newswoman is consumed by suspicions and guilt over her rocky marriage.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
as Sarah Palmer
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...
Chain of Desire
1992
as Linda Bailey
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
The Waterdance
1992
as Pat
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist bik...
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992
as Magi Lune (voice)
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destr...
Megaville
1992
as Mrs. Palinov
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and t...
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
as Eva Bates
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two...
Intimate Stranger
1991
as Dana P. Ashley
A policeman guards a barroom singer whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer on her trail.
Ambition
1991
as Mrs. Merrick
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Alber...
Blood Ties
1991
as The Woman
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just ...
Servants of Twilight
1991
as Grace Spivey
Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a...
My Own Private Idaho
1991
as Alena
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor...
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
1991
as Genevieve
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - ab...
Child's Play 2
1990
as Grace Poole
Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where t...
Wild at Heart
1990
as Juana Durango
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...
Hometown Boy Makes Good
1990
as Helen Geary
A med school burnout returns to his small home town, but when he decides against telling his mother that he dropped out, complications ensue.
People Like Us
1990
as Woman in Group Therapy (uncredited)
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab...
Twin Peaks
1989
as Sarah Palmer
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the...
Drugstore Cowboy
1989
as Bob's Mother
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, w...
A Deadly Silence
1989
as Psychologist
The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people kn...
The Ryan White Story
1989
as Gloria White
The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
The Boost
1988
as Sheryl
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds him...
Shooter
1988
as Sister Marie
"Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets i...
My Father, My Son
1988
as Mouza
When an Admiral orders the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, he has no idea the deadly consequences of his actions for his son.
Trancers: City of Lost Angels
1988
as Warden
Jack Deth, the super cop from the future, has put away three centuries worth of time traveling criminals. But Deth's most dangerous collar, the ultra...
Pulse Pounders
1988
as The Warden (Trancers sequence)
In this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE...
Leonard Part 6
1987
as Jefferson
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da...
Rampage
1987
as Naomi Reece
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, t...
The Big Easy
1986
as Mama
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem...
North Beach and Rawhide
1985
as Hearings Officer
"Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile del...
One Too Many
1985
as Mrs. Linton
Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.
The Burning Bed
1984
as Flossie Hughes
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes he...
Body Rock
1984
as Chilly's Mother
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.
My Mother's Secret Life
1984
as Maggie Ryan
16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of...
Nickel Mountain
1984
as Ellie Wells
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, a...
M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
1983
as Silvie Alice Kohler
A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-...
The Executioner's Song
1982
as Kathryne Baker
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to...
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982
as Esther Pokrifiki
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul...
Galaxy of Terror
1981
as Captain Trantor
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as ...
Blinded by the Light
1980
as Emily
When teenager David Bowers renounces his home and family to run off with a quasi-religious cult, his sister, Janet, sets out to bring him back, very n...
The Private Eyes
1980
as Nanny
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Wi...
Freedom Road
1979
as Ruth Lait
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate d...
Concrete Cowboys
1979
as Meg Barnaby
Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark but, soon, they get involved in a case...
Norma Rae
1979
as Linette Odum
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978
as Lem's Wife
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hi...
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
1978
as Widow Cummins
A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps them...