Jennifer Lynch Biography

Name : Jennifer Lynch biography

Date of Birth : 7 April 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Occupation : Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actress

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for writing the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and for writing and directing the 1993 feature film Boxing Helena. Lynch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of artist and filmmaker David Lynch and painter Peggy Reavey. At the age of three, Lynch appeared in her father's Eraserhead. Lynch was educated in Los Angeles and Michigan (at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy) and, as a teen, worked as a production assistant on her father's Blue Velvet (1986). Already known for her precocious writing ability, she authored The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to accompany the Twin Peaks television show (1990) and wrote an episode of the popular science-fiction television series Friday the 13th: The Series (also in 1990). Her commissioned screenplay for Boxing Helena, which she would later go on to direct, attracted top-drawer talent, including Madonna. Sherilyn Fenn ultimately played the part of Helena. Kim Basinger was also attached and was famously sued after walking away. The controversy surrounding that case, as well as feminist outcry over Helena's sadistic subject matter and the inevitable accusations of nepotism, undoubtedly contributed to the movie's critical drubbing upon its release in 1993.

Lynch retreated from the public eye but came back into the spotlight with the film Surveillance. She was announced as director of the film Nagin (the film is also known as Hisss) starring Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat.

In October 2008, Surveillance took the top prize at the Festival de Cine de Sitges. A month later, Lynch became the first woman to receive the New York City Horror Film Festival's Best Director award.

On March 21, 2010, Lynch was a judge at the International Surrealist Film Festival. She works as producer for the upcoming Corey Brandenstein natural horror film The Compound.