Catherine E. Coulson
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Catherine E. Coulson is an American stage and screen actress who also works behind the scenes on various independent films. She is best known for her role as the Log Lady in the David Lynch TV series Twin Peaks.
Coulson met Lynch in the 1970s and performed various behind the scenes functions during the five year filming of his low budget classic Eraserhead (1978). She also appeared in Lynch's short film The Amputee (1974), in which she played a woman with no legs. During the filming of Eraserhead, Lynch told Coulson that he had an image in his head of her holding a large log. Fifteen years later, he created such a role for her in Twin Peaks.
Coulson was married to Jack Nance, who played the lead in Eraserhead and later played Pete Martell in Twin Peaks, but they divorced in 1976. She is married to Rabbi Marc Sirinsky.
Coulson is now primarily a theatre actor and has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the last decade.
[edit] 2006 Roles
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank
- Lucetta in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
[edit] Previous Roles
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Catherine in By the Waters of Babylon
- Donna Peppenella in Napoli Milionaria!
- Emilia and Ensemble in The Comedy of Errors
- Rose Schell in The Visit
- Elaine, Hoola-Hoop, et al in Continental Divide
- Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Alice in Handler
- Emilia in The Winter's Tale
- Gertie in Fuddy Meers
- Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor
- E.M. Ashford in Wit
- Player Queen in Hamlet
- Mrs. Morton in Chicago
- Ursula in Much Ado about Nothing
- Clara Stepaneck in the OSF and Kennedy Center productions of The Magic Fire
- Shulamis in Vilna's Got a Golem
- Maryina in Uncle Vanya
- Marina in Pentecost
- Outlaw in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Virginia in Three Viewings
- Duchess of York in Richard II
- The Mother-in-Law in Blood Wedding
- Penny in You Can't Take It With You
- Evelyn in Tales of the Lost Formicans
Other theatres
- Hilda in Wintertime, The Elephant Man (San Jose Repertory Theatre)
- Major Barbara (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles)
- Anna in Old Times (Encore Theatre, Los Angeles)
- Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (New Committee Theater, San Francisco)
- The Devils (Circle Theatre, San Francisco)
- The Balcony, Muzeeka, Tom Paine (Circus Theatre, San Francisco)
TV and film
- The Log Lady in Twin Peaks
- Another You, Femme Fatale, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, The Four Diamonds
- Host of Twin Peaks for the Bravo Network
- Guest roles in numerous Movies of the Week
