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Julee Cruise

Actor, Composer
Born December 1, 1956Died June 9, 2022 (65 years)
Julee Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician, best known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums and collaborated with a variety of other artists.

Cruise was known for her song "Falling", the theme song for the television series Twin Peaks. She also had minor appearances as a roadhouse singer in Twin Peaks, both the original series and the 1992 movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. She would later return for the revival series, Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), 25 years later, performing in the closing credits of the penultimate episode. She also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant garde concert, Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was filmed and released on home media.

Other notable singles included "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" (1990) and "If I Survive" from her 1999 Wide Angle album. Her final album, My Secret Life, was released in 2011.

Cruise was also a stage actress and appeared on the Broadway musical Return to the Forbidden Planet and the bio-musical Radiant Baby in 2004.

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Known For

  • Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

Filmography

2007
1992
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me · as Roadhouse Singer
1990
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted · as The Dreamself Of The Heartbroken Woman
1990
Twin Peaks (TV Series) · as Singer
1990
Twin Peaks · as Girl Singer
1983
Alice in Wonderland · as The Queen Of Hearts
1981
The Marvelous Land of Oz · as Gen. Jinjur

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