Grace Zabriskie (née Caplinger; born May 17, 1941) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990–1991; 2017) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lois Henrickson in Big Love, as well as in cult films such as two of David Lynch’s films: Juana Durango in Wild at Heart (1990) and Visitor #1 in Inland Empire (2006). Other film roles include Nickel Mountain (1984), Child’s Play 2 (1990), and The Grudge (2004). She is also known for her recurring roles in Seinfeld and Charmed.
| Grace Zabriskie | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1941[2] |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Children | 2 |
Grace Zabriskie Wiki, Biography
Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Marion Grace (née Zabriskie), of Wyckoff, New Jersey, and Roger Thomas “Tom” Caplinger.[3] Her mother had distant Polish and Dutch ancestry,[4] and was a relative of James Zabriskie, a 19th-century railroad industrialist and early pioneer of California.[5] Zabriskie has said that her family was visited by Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote during her childhood.[6] Her father owned the famous French quarter gay bar, Cafe Lafitte in Exile.[1]
In the early 1960s, Zabriskie was among a circle of Kerry Thornley’s New Orleans friends. At one point, Thornley began work on a novel about her called Can Grace Come Out and Play?[1] Thornley later claimed to have had an “eight-year-long, off-again-on-again, affair/friendship/rivalry/ego-game/karmic unraveling” with her, though Zabriskie described it as “four and a half minutes in bed” after a discussion on the exclusion of sex from their friendship—shared with Zabriskie’s then-husband, Rob—as being “irrational”.[7]
Her sister, Lane Caplinger, worked as a typist in New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s office. Caplinger is reputed to have covertly produced all five copies of the first edition of the Principia Discordia in 1965.[8]
After making her major film debut in Norma Rae, Zabriskie went on to appear in dozens of other works, including the 1981 Roger Corman horror film Galaxy of Terror and the 1981 miniseries adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. She played the nanny in The Private Eyes, Debra Winger’s mother in An Officer and a Gentleman, Heather Langenkamp’s mother in Nickel Mountain, and Paul Le Mat’s mother in The Burning Bed (starring Farrah Fawcett). She had a small but crucial part in the fifth season finale of Knots Landing.
Personal life
In her early twenties, Zabriskie and her then-husband, Rob, “had an intense friendship, which graduated, or from another point of view disintegrated into more of a friendship between” Zabriskie and Kerry Thornley; this friendship was “centered around an intense shared love for and fascination with the philosophy of Ayn Rand”.
Zabriskie is the mother of two daughters; Helen, who became an actress, and Marion Lane, a painter. In 1993, Helen died of Hodgkin’s disease. Marion died in 2019 aged 56 of cancer.
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| Work Time | 10 AM to 8 PM |
| Workout Time | 8 AM to 9 AM |
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Net Worth
The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.
| Monthly Income/Salary (approx.) | $80K – $85k USD |
| Net Worth (approx.) | $4 million- $6 million USD |