Jennifer Chambers Lynch
| Jennifer Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jennifer Chambers Lynch April 7, 1968 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, producer, actress |
| Notable work | Boxing Helena |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) |
David Lynch Peggy Reavey |
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter. She is also known as the writer of the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.
Lynch was born in Philadelphia. She is the daughter of artist and filmmaker David Lynch, who is responsible for her Finnish ancestry, and painter Peggy Reavey. She began practicing Transcendental Meditation at the age of six.
Lynch was educated in Los Angeles and Michigan at Interlochen Arts Academy. Together with her mother, Lynch made a brief appearance in her father's feature film debut film Eraserhead, but her appearance was not included in the final cut. Lynch subsequently worked as a production assistant on Blue Velvet (1986), also directed by her father.
Lynch's commissioned screenplay for Boxing Helena, which she would later go on to direct, attracted many actresses, including Madonna.Sherilyn Fenn, one of the stars in her father's television series Twin Peaks and the film Wild at Heart, was ultimately cast as leading character Helena. Kim Basinger was also attached and was famously sued after resigning from the project. The controversy surrounding that case, as well as feminist outcry over Helena's sadistic subject matter and accusations of nepotism, accompanied the movie's critical drubbing upon its release in 1993.
In an interview with The Hollywood Interview, Lynch mentions her reactions to the critical reception of Boxing Helena:
"I would love to know why people were so mad at me for telling a crazy fairy tale. I'm the first to say I didn't know what I was doing. I did the best I could at 19, and all these crazy things happened. The idea that the film was faulted when everyone involved worked so fucking hard and believed in me, and there were these adults believing in me, who was essentially a child…when the National Organization of Women slammed me, that was sort of the final straw. It was no wonder I put my legs behind my ears and got pregnant. (laughs) Not that I didn't love sex before then, but seriously. It was my child, essentially, who saved my life."
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