Jennifer Chambers Lynch is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor. For her creative biography, she participated in various roles in the creation of 55 films, the first of which was “The Eraserhead” (1977), the last - “Damien” (2017).
Childhood
Jennifer Lynch was born on April 7, 1968. Place of birth is the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His parents: father - a famous American artist and director David Lynch; mother is the artist Peggy Rivi. It is known that Jennifer in childhood suffered from a defect in her legs. This caused her father irritation, he was nervous from her cries and ugliness. To somehow deal with her problems, a girl from the age of six began to get seriously involved in transcendental meditation.
Already in childhood, Jennifer tried herself as an actress. So, at the age of three, she was involved in the film of her father “Eraserhead,” where she starred with her mother. However, the film did not appear, since the episodes with her participation were cut out. Parents did not live together for long, divorced in 1974. Peggy could not stand the husband’s experiments to create scenes from his horror films at home, as well as the constant bohemian parties that David held without her.
Jennifer was the only child with Lynch and Peggy, however she has stepbrothers from her father's subsequent marriages.
The beginning of the path to the US film industry, "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer"
Growing up, Jennifer decided to devote herself to the film industry. To do this, she is educated at the famous Academy of Arts in Michigan (in the prestigious Interlocken) and in Los Angeles.
At the age of 22, she wrote a very famous work later - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. This book accompanied the release of the series "Twin Peaks". Jennifer Lynch at the same time became the author of the script for one of the episodes of the popular horror film “Friday the Thirteenth”. She worked as an assistant for her father when he was shooting Blue Velvet.
The film "Elena in the box"
After a while, Jennifer Lynch wrote a screenplay for a movie called “Elena in a Box”. She also became the director of this film. The plot of the film is shocking: surgeon Nick Cavanaugh, rejected by her lover, lures her into his mansion and tries to achieve reciprocity. The situation ends in tragedy. The ending is completely unpredictable.
For the main role in it claimed several popular actresses, among whom were Madonna and Kim Basinger. However, she got Sherilyn Fenn, known for the TV series “Twin Peaks” and the melodrama “Wild at Heart”. The election of the leading role led to the fact that Madonna and Basinger began prosecution against Jennifer due to the fact that the choice of the director did not fall on them.
Hard times
The film “Elena in a Box” was accompanied by scandals and protests by the feminist movement. They were unhappy with the overly sadistic plot. These performances became the reason that the box office picture in 1993 actually failed. The following year, for this film, Jennifer Lynch is awarded the "shameful" Golden Raspberry Award in the "Worst Director" nomination.
Subsequently, Jennifer said that the reaction of the audience and critics to the film was unexpected for her. She could not imagine how much negativity would pour out on the work itself and her personally. However, she was particularly struck by the tough critical speech of the US National Women's Organization. So, representatives of this structure awarded the title “Lady Libertine” to Jennifer Lynch, who is honored with persons who are free from restrictions (social, religious, moral), as well as prone to sadomasochism.
Hard times have come for Jennifer. However, pregnancy and the birth of a child helped to brighten up a difficult period in life. In 1995, she had a daughter, Cindy. Caring for the baby helped her withstand difficult times. Some distraction was that at that time she worked as a director for a group from Britain's New Model Army, for which she created the popular video Living in the Rose.
Return to work
Jennifer Lynch returned to work in cinema in 2008. This year, she released the thriller Observation, which starred famous actors Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond.
The plot of the film tells about two FBI agents who arrived in one of the small provincial towns of the United States to assist in the investigation of the massacre and disappearance of the girl.
The film did not pay back the funds invested in it, and also was not awarded favorable reviews. However, American film critics direct him to the Cannes Film Festival. At the end of the year, Jennifer Lynch is awarded the Observation Award for Best Director at the New York Horror Film Festival. It is noted that she became the first woman to receive this award. Also for this film she is awarded the prize of the film festival in the city of Sitges (Spain).
In 2010, Lynch worked on the movie Nagin: The Serpent Woman. The film did not go unnoticed, earned a number of good reviews, and the leading actor Malika Sherawat (the Indian Bollywood star), according to film critics, very well embodied the image.
This film is about how an American in the wilds of India catches a mutant, a snake man, a male, with the help of whom he intends to get a mystical potion. However, for his beloved a new monster comes to the world of people - a female snake.
In the same year, Jennifer acted as a judge at the international surrealistic film festival.
Following the narrative of the female snake, Jennifer Lynch’s films were released on average once a year on US screens. Among them are the series “Werewolf”, which was released in 2011, the film “On the Chain” (screenwriter, director, 2010), the film “Girls! Girls! Girls!" (director, 2011), the film "The Fall" (screenwriter, director, 2014), as well as several short films shot between 2011 and 1017.
Family life
Little is known about Jennifer Lynch's family life. Talking about herself, she reports that she is a single mother. Previously, she devoted considerable time to raising her daughter, who is currently trying herself in the acting field.
Her daughter, Cindy Lynch, who was born in Los Angeles on September 22, 1995, has already starred in five films (genres: science fiction, thriller).
Jennifer Chambers Lynch has health problems. On the back, she underwent three operations. She implanted donor bones, which were fastened with titanium bolts.
Among friends stands out Sherilyn Fenn, whom she met during the filming of the series “Twin Peaks”.