The character David Bowie played in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me was Phillip Jeffries.
Jeffries is an FBI special agent who disappears while investigating mysterious events connected with the Blue Rose cases. He reappears in the film at the Philadelphia FBI office, behaving as though he has encountered something beyond ordinary explanation and urgently warning his colleagues about Judy.
Bowie’s appearance is brief but pivotal. Fire Walk with Me serves as a prequel to Twin Peaks, focusing on Laura Palmer’s final days, while Jeffries’ strange interruption expands the story’s supernatural mythology. Bowie filmed the role with a forceful Louisiana-influenced accent, though the character’s exact experiences were deliberately left mysterious.
The role is sometimes confused with Dale Cooper, another FBI agent in the Twin Peaks universe, or with The Man from Another Place, a supernatural figure played by Michael J. Anderson. Jeffries later returned indirectly in Twin Peaks: The Return, where Bowie’s death meant the character was represented through reused footage and a new visual form.