Catherine E. Coulson, Twin Peaks Log Lady, has died

She was a spiritual person-a longtime TM meditator.

Lynch released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter to express his grief about the news.

She added that Lynch asked her to take care of the log after the show with a cult-following ended, and that it’s in a “secure undisclosed location” with a humidifier. The director told Coulson at the time that he’d had a vision of her holding a large log – a role he’d create for her more than a dozen years later in Twin Peaks.

Coulson first collaborated with Lynch on a short film in 1974, then again on the 1977 film “Eraserhead“.

Coulson, who had been married to Twin Peaks co-star Jack Nance (Pete Martell) years before they appeared on the show together, has a daughter with second husband Marc Sirinsky.

Coulson and Lynch became acquainted in 1971.

Coulson appeared Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and in a recent music video as The Log Lady after the conclusion of the series.

Among her other credits as a camera assistant, she worked on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Modern Romance, and Night on Earth.

Her log is preserved “in a “secure, undisclosed location” with a humidifier” and remains in Lynch’s care.

Coulson had worked in film and on stage since she was 15. After moving to Oregon, she acted in a number of plays in Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival. There were scant details about what exactly her Log Lady would be doing in the Twin Peaks revival, but she did say Lynch suggested she “talk about sustainable forestry”. Whatever part her character would’ve played in the new Twin Peaks, though, Coulson’s absence now will certainly be felt. The ABC show ran for two seasons in 1990 and 1991.