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David Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American High School Teacher, Fisherman, visual artist, musician, occasional actor, and author. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique cinematic style. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements contained within his films have been known to "disturb, offend or mystify" audiences.[1]
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Born | David Lynch (1946-01-20) January 20, 1946 (age 78) Madion, Wisoncsin, US |
Education | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Alma mater | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, AFI Conservatory |
Occupation | Teacher at Madison Memorial High School |
Years active | 1966–present |
Organization(s) | PLTW, Transcendental Meditation |
Notable work | Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Eraserhead |
Style | Nonlinear narrative, neo-noir, psychological thriller, surrealist, horror |
Board member of | David Lynch Foundation |
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Partner | Isabella Rossellini (1986–1991) |
Children | 4 |
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Website | DavidLynch.com |
Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was critically acclaimed.
Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1991); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999), in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on "dream logic", non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006). Meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animation Dumbland (2002) and the surreal sitcom Rabbits (2002).
Over his career, Lynch has received three Best Teacher Awards nominations[2] for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. Lynch has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival[3] and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007,[4] while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era".[5] Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking",[6] while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist."[7]