The Preppie Murders , in which she worked with aspiring actor William Baldwin. But it wasn't until she portrayed Donna Marie Hayward, the best friend of small-town murder victim Laura Palmer, that Boyle's career came to a full boil. Peaks may linger in the consciousness of die-hard fans, but the show lasted only 29 episodes before making way for standard network fare. Boyle caught her second wind in 1997. While she lost the part of neurotic lawyer Ally McBeal to Calista Flockhart , she did land the juicy part of District Attorney Helen Gamble in another Emmy-winning David E. Kelley drama, The Practice .
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The entertainment media has held up Boyle, along with Flockhart and Courtney Cox-Arquette , as an example of unhealthily thin female celebs. Call her a lightweight, though, and Boyle counters with a heavyweight defense. I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.