Jan D'Arcy

Jan Therese D'Arcy is an American television and film actress born on June 18, 1939 in Oneida, New York, with a career spanning almost five decades.

Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and other sci-fi series
She is probably best known for playing Sylvia Horne in Twin Peaks, appearing in the hit cult original 1990 series on ABC. She was in four significant episodes, her role effectively adding bookends to the series by being featured in one of the first scenes of the very first episode, aka the Pilot, and one of the final scenes of the then final episode, both key episodes directed by David Lynch. She was also due to appear in the 1992 movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with her character appearing in the original script, but did not as Richard Beymer - who played her character's husband, Benjamin Horne - and Sherilyn Fenn - who portrayed her on-screen daughter, Audrey Horne - chose not to return and the scenes featuring the Horne Family were written out. 

Twenty-five years later, she returned to the role in the Showtime 2017 revival, ''Twin Peaks: The Return. ''

She cemented her sci-fi cult status by also playing Judge Kann in the Tooms episode of The X-Files  and her roles in The Outer Limits, M.A.N.T.I.S, Arrow, and Highlander (as Betty Bannen).

Other roles
Her TV legacy includes roles in many other major TV shows, including: The Commish, L.A. Law, 21 Jump Street, Jake and the Fatman, Hot Pursuit, and Wiseguy.

TV Movies
She has appeared in several made-for-TV films, including: Better Off Dead, No Child of Mine, The Other Mother, The Danger of Love, High Stakes, and Relic.

Feature Films
Her debut role was in the Stockard Channing movie, Sweet Revenge (1976). She was in Why Would I Lie? (1980), the major true story movie Alive (1993), Keoni Waxman's Countdown (1996), and will be in Allen Wolf's upcoming movie Hooked.

Personal life
She has five children.

Education
She has a BA from Catholic University America (1960) and an MA from University of California at Los Angeles (1961).