14 Facts About Lili Haydn

Lili Haydn is a Canadian-born violinist, film and TV composer, singer-songwriter, and former child-actress.

Lili Haydn is the daughter of comedian Lotus Weinstock and video artist David Jove, who was one of the first people to mass-produce LSD.

Lili Haydn reportedly chose the name "Helicopter" by which she was known briefly.

Lili Haydn began her career as a child actress at the age of seven.

Lili Haydn initially appeared in commercials and moved on to television and film roles.

Lili Haydn appeared in the first Not Quite Human TV movie in 1987, and was a regular cast member on the syndicated sitcom The New Gidget.

Lili Haydn has a bit part in the Michael Keaton movie Jack Frost.

Lili Haydn began playing the violin at the age of eight.

In 1992, Lili Haydn graduated from Brown University with a BA in political science and began to pursue a career in music.

Lili Haydn won a fellowship to the Sundance Film Institute composing in 2009, and has composed the film scores for three films, Jacklight, The Horse Boy, and The Lightmaker.

In 2008, Lili Haydn accompanied Roger Waters at the Coachella music festival when they played "The Dark Side of the Moon".

In 2009, Lili Haydn sustained neurological damage after being exposed to the pesticide Chlordane.

Since the release of Lililand in 2014, Haydn has scored seven films, including Academy Award winner Freida Mock's Anita, The House that Jack Built, and Sundance Selects' Driver X She has worked on the score for Seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning series Transparent, and has done four high-impact TED presentations.

In 2018, Lili Haydn joined with musicians Hamid Saeidi, MB Gordy, and Itai Disraeli to create the group Opium Moon.