Adrian Lyne was born on 4 March 1941 and is an English film director.
12 Facts About Adrian Lyne
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Adrian Lyne received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for Fatal Attraction.
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Adrian Lyne was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire and raised in London.
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Adrian Lyne was educated at Highgate School in North London; together with his younger brother, Oliver Lyne, a classical scholar and academic at the University of Oxford.
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Adrian Lyne was among a generation of British directors in the 1970s, including Ridley Scott, Alan Parker, Tony Scott and Hugh Hudson, who would begin their career making television commercials before going on to have major success in films.
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Adrian Lyne wanted to know exactly which filter I'd used.
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Adrian Lyne made his feature filmmaking debut in 1980 with Foxes, a look at the friendship of four teenage girls growing up in the San Fernando Valley, starring Jodie Foster.
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Adrian Lyne's next film, 1983's Flashdance, was an innovative blend of rock 'n' roll, new dance styles, and visual imagery.
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Adrian Lyne's visuals, wedded to Giorgio Moroder's score, propelled the story of an aspiring ballerina who works in a factory by day and dances in a club at night.
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In 2006, Adrian Lyne was committed to directing Two Minutes to Midnight, a Sheldon Turner-scripted thriller for 20th Century Fox.
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In 2012, Adrian Lyne was in talks to direct a film adaptation of the John Grisham novel The Associate.
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The next year, Michael Douglas and Halle Berry were connected to another Adrian Lyne project called Silence.