Audrey Horne

Audrey Horne is a character from the television series "Twin Peaks", created by David Lynch and Mark Frost.

Audrey ("Twin Peaks", played by Sherilyn Fenn), born August 24, 1972, Audrey fits the image of a poor little rich girl. She is able to get anything she wants except for her father's love. Benjamin Horne, the town's business magnate, gave that love to deceased Laura Palmer, both physically and emotionally.

Audrey is labelled a troublemaker and lives up to that expectation. In a memorable scene in the "Twin Peaks" pilot, Audrey blew her father's business deal worth millions by interrupting a meeting of Norwegian investors and telling them about Laura's murder.

Audrey appears emotionally upset although she and Laura were not friends. She says she "kind of loved Laura" because she taught and looked after her mentally retarded brother Johnny.

She develops a crush on Special Agent Dale Cooper and helps him investigate Laura's murder by infiltrating the brothel One-Eyed Jack's.

In the show's second season, writers planned a serious relationship between Cooper and Audrey, but Kyle MacLachlan, who played Cooper, vetoed it, arguing that Cooper would not become involved with a high school-age woman. Cooper did, later, become involved with a much younger woman (Annie Blackburn, who was around the age of twenty). However, he had admitted to Audrey during their last significant conversation that the real reason why he would not pursue her was because he had lost the love of his life who was put in danger being involved with his case. Audrey was paired with other characters such as Bobby Briggs and John Justice Wheeler.

Her character develops during the series. In the beginning she is portrayed as being salacious and deceiving. She is intent on pulling pranks to put her father's business in jeopardy. Closer to the end of the second season, she not only falls in love with a business partner of her father's but admits to him that she is actually a virgin. She turns around and begins working for her father. Also attributed to her character's development is her trying to do good by helping Dale Cooper with his case and even finding evidence to relieve him of charges pressed against him when he rescued her. She also enters the Miss Twin Peaks pageant.

In the final episode, Audrey is engaged in an act of civil disobedience at the bank where a bomb trap goes off near Audrey, Andrew Packard, Pete Martell and the banker. The bomb, being an ironic "reward" of a long treasure hunt, was planted by the late Thomas Eckhardt. Sherilyn Fenn stated in an interactive chat on America Online that had there been a third season of the show, her character was slated to have survived the explosion.

It is rumored that Lynch's Mulholland Drive (film), which was originally conceived as a television series, was also idealized as a spin-off centered around Audrey in which she goes to Hollywood to pursue an acting career.

It is revealed during the finale that she is actually the half-sister of Donna Hayward, Donna being her father's illegitimate child. Audrey and Donna were on good terms but never close friends, Audrey having promised to retrieve some information on Laura's murder from Cooper for Donna.

Angelo Badalamenti composed the leitmotifs "Audrey's Dance", "Audrey's Prayer", and "Audrey" for the character.

External links

* [http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/tpcard47.html Audrey Horne "Twin Peaks" card]