Jennifer Lynch

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 4, 1968) is an American film director.

Lynch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of the soon-to-be-famous filmmaker David Lynch and painter Peggy Lentz. As a tot, Lynch appeared in her father's Eraserhead (1978), which would continue to shoot for a number of years as financing came and went. David Lynch has said that Eraserhead was inspired by his daughter's birth. Lynch was educated in Los Angeles and Michigan and, as a teen, worked as a production assistant on her father's Blue Velvet (1986). Known for her precocious writing ability, she wrote The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to accompany the Twin Peaks television show (1990). Her screenplay for "Boxing Helena" attracted top-drawer talent, including Madonna, who withdrew when she was told by Andrew Lloyd Weber that she wouldn't be allowed to do Evita if she went ahead with Helena. Kim Basinger was also attached, and was famously sued after breaking her word to producers. The controversy surrounding that case, as well as feminist outcry over the Boxing Helena sadistic subject matter and the inevitable accusations that Lynch has ridden her father's coattails, surely contributed to the movie's poor reception upon its release in 1993. Afterwards, Lynch retreated from the public eye, but has recently been announced the writer and director of Surveillance (2005).

External links

• Jennifer Lynch at IMDb
• Jennifer Lynch page at the All Movie Guide