Jennifer Lynch

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an America 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 (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr.) and painter, Peggy Reavey, . At the age of three, Lynch appeared in her father's Eraserhead (released 1977, filming began in 1972 ). 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). Her commissioned screenplay for Boxing Helena, which she would later go on to direct, attracted top-drawer talent, including Madonna, who withdrew when told by Andrew... full article at wikipedia