Jennifer Lynch

Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 7, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for writing the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and for being Hollywood's youngest female writer and director with her 1993 feature film Boxing Helena. Lynch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of artist and filmmaker David Lynch and painter Peggy Reavey. She began practicing Transcendental Meditation when she was six years old. Lynch was educated in Los Angeles and Michigan (at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy) and, as a teen, played the role of a little girl in her father's movie Eraserhead. After that she worked as a production assistant on her father's Blue Velvet (1986). She authored The Secret Diary...