Lenny Abrahamson
| Lenny Abrahamson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Leonard Abrahamson 30 November 1966 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse(s) | Monika Pamula (2 children) |
Leonard "Lenny" Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. Abrahamson is known for his films Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012), Frank (2014) and the Oscar-winning Room (2015).
Abrahamson was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Edna (nėe Walzman) and Max Abrahamson, a solicitor. He was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Both sides of his family were originally from Eastern Europe, including Poland.
He studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a scholar in Mental and Moral Science (philosophy) in 1988, having first completed an MA in Theoretical Physics in 1987.
Abrahamson was offered a scholarship to study for a PhD in Philosophy in Stanford University. He did not complete his studies and returned to Ireland to take up filmmaking, initially directing commercials, filming a popular series of adverts for Carlsberg. His first film was Adam & Paul, a black comedy that featured a pair of heroin addicts as they made their way around Dublin in search of a fix. The follow up film to this was 2007's Garage, starring Pat Shortt as a lonely petrol station attendant in rural Ireland. Both films won the IFTA award for best film.
Also in 2007, RTÉ screened Abrahamson's four-part TV miniseries Prosperity, which was written in collaboration with Mark O'Halloran, the co-writer of Adam and Paul and Garage. Like these two films, Prosperity focused on people on the fringes of Irish society, with each one-hour episode focusing on a specific character, including an alcoholic, a single mother, and an asylum seeker. Prosperity was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards in 2008 and won in two categories, Best Directing for Lenny Abrahamson, and Best Script for Mark O'Halloran.
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