Lara Flynn Boyle keeps it casual as she spends her 53rd birthday doing chores

Lara Flynn Boyle kept it casual as she celebrated her 53rd birthday last week in a rare sighting. 

The Twin Peaks vet was spotted outside her home in Los Angeles on Friday, wearing a down coat, flannel shirt, and Notre Dame sweatpants as she tended to some chores.   

The makeup-free actress carried a garbage bag over her shoulder as she strode towards a recycling bin in her boots. 

She scooped her brunette hair back into a no-fuss bun and accessorized with a dainty pair of gold earrings and delicate choker necklace.  

It’s not often Lara is pictured out and about, with the last time she was pictured appearing to be back in February 2022 during a night out at Craig’s. 

Makeup-free: Boyle kept it casual with a fresh face 

Back in June 2021, she gave a rare interview, as she geared up to release her first film in over five years.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Boyle – who was promoting the action drama Death in Texas – shoots down the interviewer’s suggestion that it could be considered a comeback role, saying: ‘I never went anywhere.’

Best known for her role as Donna Hayward in the ’90s cult television series Twin Peaks, Boyle gave a refreshingly frank interview, saying that she wasn’t afraid ‘to look like s***’ in the new film.

‘It was a commitment to myself to go in with no vanity,’ she says of the part. ‘I was like, “Look, I’m going to look like s****. Make me look even crappier than I already would.” It was selfishly, again, it was like being back in acting class.’

The actress is rumoured to have had plastic surgery over the years, often spotted out with a dramatically different look to how she is remembered on screen.

But the star says: ‘I’m an actress so it’s a stretch to become that selfless. [Laughs] Hello! I know! We love attention. But I was like, “Let’s be raw and absolutely 100 percent not self-involved.” It was a little bit of work to be that mindless and focus completely on another human being.’

Born in Iowa, Lara moved to California to work as a child actress in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day off.

She then went on to appear in Amerika in 1987 then Dead Poets Society in 1989.

Classic: Boyle is best known best known for her role as Donna Hayward in the ’90s cult television series Twin Peaks (pictured above with stars Sherilyn Fenn and James Marshall

Day to day errands: The star wore her brunette tresses up into a bun as she finished off some chores at home

Going green: The actress carried a garbage bag over her shoulder as she approached a recycling bin

She became famous when she landed the role of Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks from 1990 until 1991.

In the 1990s she appeared in several movies including Threesome, Afterglow, then returned to TV with The Practice in 1997.

In 2002 she had luck in movies again opposite Will Smith in Men In Black II then went on to work in Huff.

But in 2005 she was back to TV with Las Vegas with Josh Duhamel and Molly Sims. In 2009 she was in Baby On Board then later in Life Is Hot In Cracktown.

Her love life has had its ups and downs. Boyle was in a relationship with Twin Peaks costar Kyle MacLachlan from 1990 to 1992.

She wed John Patrick Dee III in 1996, and divorced two years later.

Later, Boyle dated A Few Good Men actor Nicholson, who is 33 years her senior. They went public with their romance at the 1999 Emmys, and remained together until the end of 2000.

And she was linked to Just Shoot Me actor David Spade.

Boyle has been married to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II since 2006

Golden touch: The birthday girl accessorized her laid-back look with some dainty gold earrings and a choker necklace 

Showbiz legend: Boyle pictured at an event in Beverly Hills in 2017

Glam: It’s not often Lara is pictured out and about, with the last time she was pictured appearing to be back in February 2022 during a night out at Craig’s