Her murder and its effect on those around her propel the first season and the first eight episodes of the second season.

The discovery of Laura's body in the pilot episode of Twin Peaks brings Special Agent Dale Cooper ( Kyle MacLachlan) to investigate her death.

She also had sexual encounters with other Twin Peaks citizens, such as businessman Ben Horne ( Richard Beymer) and trucker/drug dealer Leo Johnson ( Eric Da Re).

Officially involved with Bobby Briggs ( Dana Ashbrook), the high school football team captain, she was also engaged in a secret relationship with James Hurley ( James Marshall). However, the series gradually revealed that Laura led a double life: she was a cocaine addict, a victim of child sexual abuse, a fetish model and, briefly, a sex worker at One Eyed Jacks, a casino/ brothel just north of the Canada–US border. Laura (played by Sheryl Lee, who also played her cousin Maddy Ferguson), was well known and loved in Twin Peaks she volunteered at Meals on Wheels, was her school's Homecoming Queen, and was (apparently) the darling of her parents, Sarah ( Grace Zabriskie) and Leland ( Ray Wise). Laura also appears in the novels, Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), and a variety of merchandise based on the series.Īppearances In television A high school student whose death is the catalyst for the events of the series, Palmer is the protagonist in Lynch's prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), which depicts the final week of her life leading up to her murder. She first appears in the ABC original series Twin Peaks. She is portrayed by Sheryl Lee and was created by the series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost. Laura Palmer is a fictional character in the Twin Peaks franchise.

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