Lawrence Sher
| Lawrence Sher | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 4, 1970 Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Cinematographer, film director |
| Spouse(s) | Jessica Sher |
Lawrence Sher (born February 4, 1970) is an American cinematographer and film director, best known for comedy films such as Garden State, The Hangover and The Dictator. He is making his directorial debut with Bastards (2017).
Sher was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended and graduated from Teaneck High School. His father, Paul, had been a doctor at New York University Medical Center, while his mother, Joan, was a teacher and taught at the Queens-based Lexington School for the Deaf. It was on a high school-sponsored trip to Paris that Sher first developed a love for photography, after his father convinced him to take a 35mm camera along with him on the trip. Sher has maintained his connections to Teaneck, staying in the basement of his aunt's home there during the filming of Garden State, where he was able to use love of his home state to make location shots there make it appear as what The Record described as a "verdant wonderland". He expressed great pride for his hometown of Teaneck and its diversity, recalling how he "spent a lot of time with an eclectic group of people. There's nothing homogenized about Teaneck even though you're in the middle of suburban New Jersey."
He attended Wesleyan University, where he had initially planned to pursue a career in medicine followed by his identical twin brother Andy, who later became a urologist. After taking a course on film history, Sher developed an immediate interest in cinema, recalling that "All I wanted to do was spend every waking moment learning about movies and cinematography." He decided on majoring in economics and graduated from Wesleyan in 1992.
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