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== FBI ==

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{{quote|Played by: [[Kyle Mac Lachlan]]}}

* [[Agent Cooper]]: Co-[[Trope Namer]]

* [[Badass]]

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{{quote|Played by: [[David Lynch]]}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Even when compared with [[Agent Cooper]] himself.

{{quote|COOP, TODAY YOU REMIND ME OF A SMALL, MEXICAN CHIHUAHUA!}}

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{{quote|Played by: Kenneth Welsh}}

* [[Arch Enemy]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]

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{{quote|Played by: [[Miguel Ferrer]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Actual Pacifist]]}}: He became an FBI Medical Examiner to {{spoiler|fight against violence in a way that would never make him have to use violence}}. His deep commitment to {{spoiler|pacifism}} results in {{spoiler|a warming in his relationship with Sheriff Truman}}. Spoilered because it's quite a twist when it finally appears.

* [[Agent Scully]]

=== Agent Dennis "Denise" Bryson ===

{{quote|Played by: [[David Duchovny]]}}

* [[Camp Straight]]: Don't let the cross-dressing fool you. He likes the ladies.

** Possibly averted: if Bryson is [[Transsexualism]] then ''she'' is gay.

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{{quote|Played by: Michael Ontkean}}

* [[Agent Scully]]: Though at first he seems to be set up for this, Sheriff Truman deeply respects Agent Cooper. However, when evidence seems to point at {{spoiler|Ben Horne}} Truman expresses exasperation with Cooper's eccentricity, {{spoiler|in this case Cooper was right}}.

* [[Badass]]

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{{quote|Played by: Harry Goaz}}

* [[The Big Guy]]: Shared with Hawk.

* [[Butt Monkey]]

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{{quote|Played by: Michael Horse}}

* [[Badass]]: No kidding...

** [[Badass Long Hair]]

=== Lucy Moran ===

{{quote|Played by: Kimmy Robertson}}

* [[Adult Child]]: Her voice.

* [[The Chick]]

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{{quote|Played by: [[Don S Davis|Don S. Davis]]}}

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

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{{quote|Played by: [[Dana Ashbrook]]}}

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Laura Palmer's last relationship is with him. Subverted in that she humiliated him by destroying his "bad boy" posturing, as {{spoiler|next to her he was both weak and innocent.}}

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Bobby is about 17 or 18 years old. Dana Ashbrook was in his mid-20s when he played the character.

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{{quote|Played by: [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] (TV show), Moira Kelly (''Fire Walk With Me'')}}

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Girl]]

==== Eileen Hayward ====

{{quote|Played by: Mary Jo Deschanel}}

* [[Cut Short]]: We'll never know all the details of {{spoiler|her relationship with Ben Horne}}. [[Seasonal Rot|Even though they're pretty obvious]].

* [[Hot Mom]]: What else would you expect from the mother of [[Zooey Deschanel]]?

==== Gersten Hayward ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Alicia Witt]]}}

* [[Bifauxnen]]

* [[Closing Credits]]: She gets to interrupt [[Instrumental Theme Tune|Falling]] to play a boogie-woogie number on piano.

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{{quote|Played by: Warren Frost}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[The Coroner]]

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{{quote|Played by: [[Sherilyn Fenn]]}}

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Mostly evident in the pilot and early episodes.

* [[Beauty Mark]]: Next to her left eye.

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{{quote|Played by: Richard Beymer}}

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Donna, I Am Your Father]]}}: Revealed at the end of the series.

{{quote|Played by: [[David Patrick Kelly]]}}

Ben Horne's sleazy brother. He actually doesn't have too big of a role in the show, but he occasionally helps Ben with his schemes.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

==== "Big" Ed Hurley ====

{{quote|Played by: Everett McGill}}

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: His voice in the Japanese dub is provided by none other than [[Norio Wakamoto]]. [[The Quiet One|DEFINITELY]] [[Playing Against Type]]!

* [[Nice Guy]]

{{quote|Played by: James Marshall}}

Biker teen who lives with Ed and Nadine instead of his parents, who, he tells people, died in a car accident.

* [[Cool Bike]]

* [[The Danza]]

==== Nadine Hurley ====

{{quote|Played by: Wendy Robie}}

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|She saves Ed when Hank tries to kill him.}}

=== Dr. Lawrence Jacoby ===

{{quote|Played by: Russ Tamblyn}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Cool Shades]]: He almost always wears a pair of 3D glasses.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Played Luke Sanderson in the original 1963 version of ''[[The Haunting]]''.

* [[Making a Spectacle of Yourself]]

 

=== The Jenningses ===

==== Hank Jennings ====

{{quote|Played by: Chris Mulkey}}

* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: His domino key-chain.

* [[The Dragon]]: To several villains throughout the series.

==== Norma Jennings ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Peggy Lipton]]}}

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: She acts as one towards Shelly Johnson, and is a literal one to Annie Blackburn.

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]: She ''is'' played by Peggy Lipton after all.

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{{quote|Played by: Eric Da Re}}

* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]: Well ... sort of. He is aggressive and does sell drugs to high school kids, but they seek him out to buy them.

* [[Badass Long Hair]]

==== Shelly Johnson ====

{{quote|Played by: Mädchen Amick}}

* [[Author Appeal]] : She kisses Gordon Cole, played by David Lynch himself. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when her boyfriend, Bobby, comes in.

{{quote|'''Gordon Cole''' : YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT. [to Shelly] Acts like he's never seen a kiss before.

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{{quote|Played by: Catherine E. Coulson}}

 

She was with Laura 5 days before her murder.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Hoo boy...

* [[Companion Cube]]: Her log.

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{{quote|Played by: Piper Laurie}}

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

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{{quote|Played by: Jack Nance}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Chess]]: A remarkable chess player, he aids Agent Cooper in the game against Windom Earle.

==== Mayor Dwayne Milford ====

{{quote|Played by: John Boylan}}

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

 

=== Dougie Milford ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Tony Jay]]}}

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Played by the late [[Tony Jay]].

* [[Out with a Bang]]

==== Lana Budding Milford ====

{{quote|Played by: Robyn Lively}}

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Considering how Coop, Truman, Andy, and Hawk react when around her...

=== Mike Nelson ===

{{quote|Played by: Gary Hershberger}}

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]

==== Andrew Packard ====

{{quote|Played by: Dan O'Herlihy}}

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]}}

==== Josie Packard ====

{{quote|Played by: [[Joan Chen]]}}

* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]

* [[Dragon Lady]]

==== Laura Palmer ====

{{quote|Played by: Sheryl Lee}}

* [[Acting for Two]]

* [[Brown Note]] / [[Interface Screw]]: The cause and effect of her attack as an enemy in the fan made Atari-esque game 'Black Lodge'

 

{{spoiler|Soon after the trial, he brutally murders his niece Maddie Ferguson (who bears a strong resemblance to Laura) the day before she is supposed return to her hometown, Missoula. The police find out about the murder and, with help from the Giant, Cooper reveals that Leland is Laura's killer. When Leland is taken in for interrogation, BOB assumes full control over his body and forces him to commit suicide just before leaving it. Leland tells of his tragic childhood and the murders he committed and, with Cooper's help, dies peacefully while seeing a vision of his daughter.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dying as Yourself]]}}

==== Sarah Palmer ====

{{quote|Played by: Grace Zabriskie}}

* [[Big No]]

* [[Hysterical Woman]]

{{quote|Played by: Lenny Von Dohlen}}

Harold Smith is an orchid grower a close friend of Laura Palmer, who she met through working for the Meals-on-Wheels program. Harold is agoraphobic (meaning he has a fear of open spaces), which is why he [[Hikikomori|never leaves his home]]. Near the start of the second season, Donna Hayward befriends him in an attempt to get answers and discovers that {{spoiler|Laura gave him her diary before her murder. When Harold finds out that Donna is trying to steal the diary, he [[Freak-Out|goes crazy]] and [[Driven to Suicide|kills himself]], leaving a suicide note which reads ""J'ai une âme solitaire." (French for "I am a lonely soul."). Cooper and the Twin Peaks police then read the diary to help find the identity of Laura's killer.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Freak-Out]]}}: Gets hit with this HARD when {{spoiler|he finds out Donna's been tricking him to get Laura's diary}}.

{{quote|Played by: Ian Buchanan}}

Dick Tremayne runs the clothing department at Horne's Department Store and was in an on-and-off relationship with Lucy Moran.

* [[British Stuffiness]]: A goofier version of this trope.

* [[The Dandy]]

=== Annie Blackburn ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Heather Graham]]}}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Betty to Audrey's Veronica.

* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]

=== Blacky O'Reilly ===

{{quote|Played by: Victoria Catlin}}

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]

* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]

=== Thomas Eckhardt ===

{{quote|Played by: [[David Warner]]}}

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Evil Brit]]

=== Madeline "Maddy" Ferguson ===

{{quote|Played by: Sheryl Lee}}

* {{spoiler|[[Alone with the Psycho]]}}

* [[Author Appeal]]: Maddy's hometown is Missoula, Montana, which is also the birthplace of [[David Lynch]].

=== Evelyn Marsh ===

{{quote|Played by: Annette McCarthy}}

* [[Lady in Red]]

* [[The Vamp]]

 

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{{quote|Played by: Walter Olkewicz}}

* [[Fake Nationality]]: He's a French-Canadian played by an American.

* [[Fat Bastard]]

==== Jean Renault ====

{{quote|Played by: Michael Parks}}

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: He uses it to kill a random strawberry and {{spoiler|Blackie, the madam of One Eyed Jacks}}.

* [[Evil Redhead]]

=== John Justice Wheeler ===

{{quote|Played by: [[Billy Zane]]}}

* [[Gary Stu]]: What many fans see him as.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Or, rather, put on a plane.

{{quote|Played by: Frank Silva}}

The show's [[Big Bad|main villain]].

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Now, when most people say that one character ''is'' a trope, they don't really mean it...

* [[Big Bad]]

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{{quote|Played by: Carel Struycken}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "The Owls are not what they seem."

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

=== Jimmy Scott ===

{{quote|Played by: [[As Himself|Jimmy]] [[Captain Obvious|Scott]]}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Jimmy Scott was born with Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his growth and he never went through puberty. This left his beautiful voice unbroken.

 

=== The Man From Another Place ===

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{{quote|Played by: Michael J. Anderson}}

* [[Arc Words]]: He's the source of many of them.

** "That gum you like is going to come back in style."

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{{quote|Played by: Al Strobel}}

* [[Body Snatcher]]: MIKE is a being like BOB.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: After the Laura Palmer mystery is resolved, we don't see him again.

=== Pierre Tremond/Chalfont ===

{{quote|Played by: Austin Jack Lynch (TV show), Jonathan J. Lepell (''Fire Walk With Me'')}}

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]