From: henry.lebovic@p1.f605.n712.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Henry Lebovic)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Madchen Amick info wanted
Date: 7 Nov 92 15:11:42 GMT
Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au

Original to: ixgate
 > IXgate (?), via Kralizec 3:713/602

 > I would appreciate any GIFS or info about our mysterious lady Madchen
 > (Shelley).  I know nothing about her so ANYTHING would be great.
 > ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!

 >                    ANDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
Try this :

MA:DCHEN (Pronounced may-chen) AMICK - Shelly Johnson

     {Shelly Johnson works as a waitress in the Double R Diner.
The kind of woman who's always attracted to the wrong guy, she
married roughneck truck driver Leo Johnson fresh out of high
school.  She is mortally afraid of Leo.}

     If anyone is the exact opposite of the character she plays,
it's Ma:dchen Amick.  Attractive and self-assured, with an
infectious sense of humor, Ma:dchen was raised in a freewheeling
household in Reno, Nevada.  The high desert town was the kind of
community where people never had to lock their doors, and a great
place to grow up.  Her mother, a businesswoman, and her father, a
widely traveled musician who took his daughter with him on his
trips, encouraged Ma:dchen as a child to follow her own creative
inclinations.
     Beginning at the age of three, she studied piano for 12 years,
as well as learning to play the bass, violin and guitar.  She
trained in tap, ballet, and jazz and modern dance.  Ma:dchen also
started painting in oils while she was still in school, and has
sold some of her work.
     But most of all, she has always wanted to become an actress.
Roberta Fluke, a drama teacher at McQueen High School in Reno,
first gave Ma:dchen the inspiration to make acting her future.  At
16, she left home for Los Angeles.  She made her screen debut in
1988.  She guest-starred on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and
has appeared in several commercials.  She has also, as she
laughingly explains, "played everybody's girlfriend" in music
videos with Julio Iglesias, Dweezil Zappa, Rick Astley and others.
Ma:dchen starred in NBC's "Baywatch" in a leading role as a
mentally imbalanced young woman obsessed with a handsome lifeguard,
and in ABC's "Jury Duty: The Comedy" as a spoiled heiress.  Most
recently, she was Kyle MacLachlan's girlfriend in the upcoming
feature film, "The Boyfriend School," directed by Malcolm Mowbrey
with Shelly Long and Steve Guttenberg.
     As for her first series regular as Shelly Johnson on "Twin
Peaks," Ma:dchen muses: "All my roles have been like me, someone
who's in control.  This is the first part I've played where someone
else is in charge, which makes it a real acting exploration for
me."
     The talented teenager has already established a career in
Hollywood, something many older actors only aspire to do someday.
"All my life I've wanted to be in the arts," she confessed.  "It
took a long time to prove it to my mother.  Once I did that, she
gave me all her support." When she's not working in a movie
herself, Ma:dchen and her boyfriend, singer-songwriter David
Alexis, go to the movies almost constantly.  She loves all animals
(in Reno, the family had four dogs, three cats, three hamsters and
a bird).  She now has her "city dog," a miniature dachshund named
Einstein.  He's portable and likes to go out to the movies and to
restaurants.
     Ma:dchen makes her home in Los Angeles.

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The above is from info stored at audrey.levels.unisa.edu.au in the
/twin-peaks directory.


Regards
Henry Lebovic
hlebovic@extro.ucc.su.oz.au

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