[3] Several individuals with whom Lynch would work on multiple occasions are fellow alumni of the AFI Conservatory, including sound designer Alan Splet, cinematographer Frederick Elmes and actor Catherine E.[6] Lynch personally lobbied for Dern to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Inland Empire, sitting by a corner of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, with a cow to raise awareness of her performance.However, Lynch soon asked her to play the second role of Madeline Ferguson throughout the series;[14] Lee would reprise her role as Palmer in the series' feature-film sequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,[15] and made a brief appearance in Wild at Heart, which was filmed concurrently with Twin Peaks.[16] Wild at Heart featured several other Twin Peaks alumni, including Grace Zabriskie, David Patrick Kelly and Jack Nance.Lynch and Badalamenti also worked to write and produce two albums for singer Julee Cruise,[38] penning music for 1989's Floating into the Night.
As well as providing music for several of Lynch's projects,
Julee Cruise
worked with him on two studio albums.