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18 Facts About Jennifer Lynch

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Jennifer Chambers Lynch was born on April 7,1968 and is an American filmmaker.

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The negative reception to her feature debut and controversy surrounding its release led to Jennifer Lynch taking a 15-year hiatus from filmmaking.

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Outside of her career as a director, Jennifer Lynch wrote the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer in 1990.

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Jennifer Chambers Lynch was born on April 7,1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Jennifer Lynch is the daughter of artist and filmmaker David Lynch, through whom she has Finnish ancestry, and his first wife, painter Peggy Reavey.

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Jennifer Lynch began practicing Transcendental Meditation at the age of six.

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Jennifer Lynch graduated from the Interlochen Art Academy where she studied visual arts and creative writing.

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Jennifer Lynch was educated in Los Angeles and Michigan at Interlochen Arts Academy.

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Together with her mother, Jennifer Lynch made a brief appearance in her father's debut feature film Eraserhead, but her appearance was not included in the final cut.

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Jennifer Lynch subsequently worked as a production assistant on Blue Velvet, directed by her father.

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Jennifer Lynch's commissioned screenplay for Boxing Helena, which she would later go on to direct, attracted many actresses, including Madonna.

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Jennifer Lynch was announced as director of the film Nagin that featured Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat, but the film that was released was not Jennifer Lynch's work, even though the producers attached her name to the final product.

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Jennifer Lynch then directed and co-wrote the 2012 thriller film Chained, in which Vincent D'Onofrio stars as a cab-driving serial killer.

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Jennifer Lynch was scheduled to film Visibility for the Motion Picture Corporation of America in 2011, but, as of August 2021, this project is not completed.

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Jennifer Lynch authored The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to accompany the television show Twin Peaks which was created by her father David Jennifer Lynch and Mark Frost.

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In 1993, Jennifer Lynch directed the music video "Living in the Rose" by the British rock band New Model Army.

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On March 21,2010, Jennifer Lynch was a judge at the International Surrealist Film Festival and she worked as producer for the Corey Brandenstein natural horror film The Compound.

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Jennifer Lynch revealed in a 2009 interview that she underwent three spinal surgeries following the release of Boxing Helena due to a car accident that occurred when she was 19 years old.