Now I know she didn't look bad in Twin Peaks, especially for her age (44!). But I just found some photos of her on IMDb and she looked amazing!  http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1903859712/nm0005152 You can tell immediately that they're mid 60s photos but I just can't get over how beautiful she was.

Yeah, I know. I'm a fan.

Oddly enough, I learned recently she played someone's mother in Alias, and I hadn't even noticed that at the time. Time to dig up those DVDs.

She still looks to be doing quite a lot of work. Probably more than any other Peaks star, apart from maybe Madchen Amick.

If I'm not wrong she was in ALIAS the mother of Melissa George's (MD's "This is the girl" aka Camilla Rhodes) character...

Lipton is fine as an actress in TP, but my problem with her is that I don't really care about what happens with her character... In the Norma-Hank-Ed-Nadine love quadrangle I feel sorry for Ed and Nadine, but not for her, when she says that "Hank got his parole" I'm only interested because I like Hank, I don't care too much about her... On the other hand I find somewhat boring those early scenes with Norma and Hank's lawyer, her visit to jail, etc.

I agree. When I've previously criticised Norma's character and relationship with Ed some people said that she has the most convicing and realistic relationship with Hank and Ed but the fact for me is that in the world of TP I'm not really concerned whether it's realistic or not I just want it to be interesting and Norma is not. Also, because Norma actually helped Hank get parole I can never really sympathise with her.

David Lynch must be a big fan of the Mod Squad. When Clarence Williams III was on the show you had 2 out of 3 but it was supposed to be 3 out of 3 !!!! For some reason Michael Cole being on Twin Peaks just didn't happen. Negotiations must have fallen through, apparently. It would have been great to see the Mod Squad in Twin Peaks !!!!!!!!

  

Peggy Lipton sure did look amazing back in the 60's - In fact, she even went out with one of the BEATLES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Paul Mccartney)

Wow, she had a really interesting life! I never knew she was involved with McCartney. I really liked her as Norma, and remained interested in her and Ed throughout the series. One of my favorite things about the later episodes is watching them get together... they're really sweet in their scenes together. Btw, I was surprised to find out recently that Rashida Jones, (who had a guest starring spot in The Office last season in the episodes where Jim had left Dunder-Miflin) and is apparently now on the show unhitched is her daughter. I kind of see the resemblance now... kind of similar facial structures.

If I'm not wrong she was in ALIAS the mother of Melissa George's (MD's "This is the girl" aka Camilla Rhodes) character...

Yeah, I remember that. When I first watched Twin Peaks at 13, she made quite an impression on me; I can't understand why I didn't recognize her in Alias. Maybe I blinked.

I agree her storyline and character in Twin Peaks aren't so interesting, though. Yet to me she's a kind of attractive piece of normalcy in a fascinatingly strange place.

Offtopic but related to TP and another JJ Abrams show: I loved seeing Chris Mulkey (Hank) as the leader of a marijuana-growing commune in LOST...

As someone from this board once said: "Twin Peaks actors working in projects other than Twin Peaks!! Am-ma-zing!!"

Add me to the list of those who dreaded the Dreaded Quadrangle. Yes, it was a slice of relative normalcy (Hank's position as the town's gangster for hire kept it from being the stuff of Donahue), but I doubt anyone tuned in for a show that had normal storylines. In the Pilot, a dead homecoming queen washes up on a river bank, dead, wrapped in plastic, with the letter "R" jammed under her finger; two episodes later the man investigating her death has a dream about a dancing dwarf. Any "normalcy" on the show should've served as a layer upon the weird going-ons, not a completely seperate entity to stand in juxtoposition.

The only characters I felt any sympathy for were Nadine and Ed. Nadine the most, because she was the only true innocent out of the four players; she was just this poor deluded woman who had gotten herself snagged into a one-way relationship as a pawn in the "popular kids" broken relationship. Ed basically used her/married her out of self pity; although I can't entire fault him because of Norma running away with Hank. Nevertheless, it was still wrong of him, just as it was wrong of Norma to high-tail it and wrong of Hank to high-tail it with someone else's girlfriend... Really none of this matters anyway because it's still way too terribly soap-operaish for a show that was only ostensibly a soap opera.

Offtopic but related to TP and another JJ Abrams show: I loved seeing Chris Mulkey (Hank) as the leader of a marijuana-growing commune in LOST...

As someone from this board once said: "Twin Peaks actors working in projects other than Twin Peaks!! Am-ma-zing!!"

 Chris Mulkey must be a friend of JJ's as he also makes a quick appearance in Cloverfield.

Any "normalcy" on the show should've served as a layer upon the weird going-ons, not a completely seperate entity to stand in juxtoposition.

I can see what you mean, but to me, as a kid, it was a "layer", or rather an angle: everything was part of this bizarre mystery, the normal and the extremely bizarre, even the smallest and seemingly insignificant bits. I used to wonder if someone like Norma or Doc Hayward knew about BOB, and it fascinated me. That's how I experienced it; and that experience made a lasting impression that still influences the way I watch the show. It's cool. I'm not going to argue with my 13-year-old self.

I remember spotting Peggy Lipton as Olivia Reed in Alias....season 3 I think it was. Still looks good for her age

"Through the darkness of futures past, the magician longs to see....one chance out between two worlds....Fire Walk With Me!"

It's CHANTS, not chance.

  Peggy & Paul were very seriously "dating" (it's covered pretty extensively in her biography).  And I think she looks way better as Norma than as Julie. And please, youngsters, let's give the age-ist "looks good for her age" crap a rest. Why don't you just add "looks okay for a white girl"?  Time is relative & some people stay attractive even in creaky old middle-age.  Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

Good post, for a Lutheran.  Keep it up!

Good post, for a Lutheran.  Keep it up!

 That's LEX Lutheran to YOU!!!

"Through the darkness of futures past, the magician longs to see....one chance out between two worlds....Fire Walk With Me!"

It's CHANTS, not chance.

 On my TP episode 2 the subtitles say chance....

It's actually "one chimp"...

 On my TP episode 2 the subtitles say chance....

 Yikes, does it really? Is this the Gold Box? What a load. I'd hoped that particular internet "mystery" was just about dead... and now here they are adding new fuel to the fire. Blah.