‘Twin Peaks’ Log Lady Catherine E. Coulson Passes Away

“She was a tireless worker…She had a great sense of humor – she loved to laugh and make people laugh”, Lynch continued. She was a spiritual person – a longtime TM (Transcendental Meditation) meditator. But none were as peculiar as Ms. Coulson’s Log Lady, who was forever cradling a log, which she treated as a cross between a pet and a portal to a supernatural world. This season, Coulson had appeared as General Matilda B. Cartwright in “Guys and Dolls.”Other film and TV credits include “Portlandia, ” “Psych, ” “Calvin Marshall, ” “The Secret Life of Houses, ” and “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.”. “We will miss her with all our hearts”.

Twin Peaks is a show in which spirits shift around rather routinely, and, specifically, there’s a mysterious connection between wooden objects and transmogrified souls. Coulson is survived by her second husband, Marc Sirinsky, and their daughter. The Log Lady’s vague but poetic speeches added to the mystery behind the death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer on the TV series and later movie. Even 20 years after Twin Peaks aired, she said she still got stopped on the street. Or maybe the Log Lady was just insane – that’s the question left for Twin Peaks viewers to figure out.

Agent Cooper: “Who’s the lady with the log?” Coulson responded: “He suggested I talk about sustainable forestry”.

Coulson became classically trained actor – and, as a burgeoning special-effects technician, assistant director and still photographer, a force behind the camera as well. But when she met Lynch in the ’70s, the meeting sparked a collaboration would last over four decades. She’s known Lynch since 1971, and served as the assistant director to Lynch on Eraserhead, and was also actress portraying an amputee in his 1974 short film, The Amputee. “We love you #CatherineCoulson #LogLady4ever”.

Catherine Elizabeth Coulson was born October 22, 1943, in Ashland and grew up in Southern California, according to a biographical sketch on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website.

Coulson said she was stopped at airports, once asked to sign a Presto log and offered money by collectors who wanted the actual log.