Catherine E. Coulson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Catherine E. Coulson (born October 22, 1943) is an American stage and screen actress who worked behind the scenes on various studio features, magazine shows and independent films as well as acting in theater and film since the age of 15. She is best known for her role as Margaret Lanterman, the enigmatic 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 four-year filming of his low-budget classic Eraserhead (1977). Lynch reports that she began meditating at the same time as him during this period. 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, on which she guest starred for 12 episodes through seasons 1 and 2. Coulson went on to reprise her role in the film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and in "Dual Spires" (2010), an episode of Psych.Coulson was married to actor Jack Nance (who played Henry Spencer in Eraserhead, and Pete Martell in the Twin Peaks saga) in 1968; they divorced in 1976. Coulson is now primarily a theatre actor and has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon for the last two decades where she continues to be part of the acting company. She appears in Calvin Marshall directed by Gary Lundgren. Lundgren was a fan of Twin Peaks, and created a short version while at First Baptist San Mateo in the early 1990s. She recently played Susie for Lundgren in "Redwood Highway" with Shirley Knight and, Tom Skerritt and James LeGros. She is in the second season of PORTLANDIA.
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Fact
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Coulson's Twin Peaks story began in the '70s, when she spent about four years working on David Lynch's directorial debut Eraserhead. Officially, Coulson is credited as the movie's assistant director. She also worked as a waitress and donated her income to the movie's perpetually vanishing budget. And she was married to Eraserhead star Jack Nance.
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She is a monastic figure, but Coulson plays her with a fussy drollness. There's a great scene in the second episode of Twin Peaks, when she tells Cooper about the evening of Laura Palmer's death. "My log saw something that night," she says. Cooper: "What did it see?" Log Lady: "Ask it." Cooper has no idea what do to. The Log Lady says, simply: "I thought so," and walks away. The Log Lady became a cult figure, partially because it's hard to say how important she actually was to the show. She doesn't do very much, but she seems to know everything: In Lynch's cosmology, this might make her God, the Devil, or something more powerful. In a recent interview, Coulson described the Log Lady as "the only sane person in Twin Peaks." That sounds right, too.
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Her second husband, Marc Sirinsky, with whom she had a daughter, Zoey (born 1987), is a rabbi, at one point resident at Temple Emek-Shalom in Ashland, Oregon.
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She was one of the first women on camera crews in Los Angeles.
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Her mother was a ballet dancer and vaudevillian; her father, a producer and PR executive. Her family was featured on a radio show called "Breakfast with the Coulsons".
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Has been performing at the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the past 8 years. Was last seen in the plays Handler and Winter's Tale. [August 2002]
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Though divorced from actor Jack Nance in 1976, she worked with him again on the Twin Peaks (1990) series in the 90s.
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Forever identified as the log-carrying lady on the cult Twin Peaks (1990) series.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Twin Peaks
2017
TV Series post-production
The Log Lady
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
The Log Lady
Redwood Highway
2013
Susie
Portlandia
2012
TV Series
Marionberry Farmer
Walk-In
2012
Psych
2010
TV Series
Wood Woman
Calvin Marshall
2009
Carramae
The Four Diamonds
1995
TV Movie
The Secret Life of Houses
1994
Head Nurse
Ring of the Musketeers
1992
TV Movie
Lisa
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
The Log Lady
Another You
1991
Nurse
Twin Peaks
1990-1991
TV Series
The Log Lady
Femme Fatale
1991
Sister Mary
Trick or Treats
1982
Nurse Reeves (as Catherine Coulson)
The Amputee
1974
Short
Woman with amputation to the legs
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
Documentary assistant camera - as Catherine Colson
Night on Earth
1991
first assistant camera: Los Angeles - as Catherine Coulson
Cold Dog Soup
1990
additional camera operator
Les Français vus par
1988
TV Mini-Series assistant camera - 1 episode
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
1986
Documentary camera operator - as Catherine Coulson
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
first assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
Bitter Harvest
1981
TV Movie camera assistant - as Catherine Coulson
Modern Romance
1981
second assistant camera
Die Laughing
1980
assistant camera
A Force of One
1979
second assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
Youngblood
1978
second assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
Starhops
1978
second assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
The Toolbox Murders
1978
second assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
Opening Night
1977
assistant camera
Moonshine County Express
1977
second assistant camera - as Catherine Coulson
Eraserhead
1977
assistant camera
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976
camera assistant - as Catherine Coulson
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
In the Best Interests of the Children
1977
Documentary assistant director
Eraserhead
1977
assistant director
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
In the Best Interests of the Children
1977
Documentary production assistant - as Catherine Coulson
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Breakfast in Bed
1977
producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Black Road
2016/I
in memory of
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007
Video documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
2014: 'Eraserhead'
2014
Video documentary short
Herself
All About TWO
2014
TV Movie
Herself - Line-Up
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007
Video documentary
Herself - 'The Log Lady'
I Don't Know Jack
2002
Documentary
Herself
Reflections on the Phenomenon of 'Twin Peaks'
2002
Video documentary short
Herself (as Catherine Coulson)
Eraserhead Stories
2001
Video documentary
Herself (voice)
I Love the 1990s
2001
TV Series documentary
Herself / The Log Lady
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch