Lara Flynn Boyle - dyslexia

Dyslexia
Other names	Reading disorder, alexia
Difficulties in processing letters and words
Specialty	Neurology, pediatrics
Symptoms	Trouble reading[1]
Usual onset	School age[2]
Types	Surface dyslexia
Causes	Genetic and environmental factors[2]
Risk factors	Family history, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder[3]
Diagnostic method	Series memory, spelling, vision, and reading test[4]
Differential diagnosis	Hearing or vision problems, insufficient teaching[2]
Treatment	Adjusting teaching methods[1]
Frequency	3–7%[2][5]

 

Twin Peaks gave me everything I have as an actor. It put me where I am now because it was so beautifully soulful, and I think it just brought out the best of the actors. There was no acting going on – we were living on Twin Peaks. It gave me my career.

—Boyle discussing the impact Twin Peaks had on her career.^[8]

Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress. She is known for playing Donna Hayward in the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991). After appearing in Penelope Spheeris's comedy Wayne's World (1992), Boyle had a lead role in John Dahl's neo-noir film Red Rock West (1993), and in the psychological thriller The Temp (1993), followed by roles in Threesome (1994), Cafe Society (1995), Happiness (1998), and the villainous Serleena in Men in Black II (2002). From 1997 to 2003, she starred in the ABC series The Practice, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Early life

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Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Sally Flynn, a clerical worker, assistant, and manager, and Michael L. Boyle.^[1][2] Her paternal grandfather was U.S. Representative Charles A. Boyle.^[3] She has Irish, German, and Italian ancestry.^[4] She is named after a character in Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago. Her father left when she was six, causing her and her mother to move to smaller quarters. Around this time, she was diagnosed with dyslexia.^[5] She was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and graduated from The Chicago Academy for the Arts.^[6]

 

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