Lynne Ramsay

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Lynne Ramsay is the Scottish director of two critically acclaimed films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.

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[edit] Biography

Ramsay has won a BAFTA for Best Newcomer as well as four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2007, she was given the #12 spot in Guardian Unlimited's list of the world's 40 best directors working today.[1]

She was slated to direct the adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, but left the project in early 2004. Her next film is an adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel set in the aftermath of a high school massacre. The film is being produced by BBC Films.[2]

[edit] Other Work

In 2005, she directed the video for the song "Black and White Town" by the band Doves.

[edit] Personal Life

Born in Glasgow on 5 December 1969, she graduated from the UK's National Film and Television School in 1995.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html
  2. ^ Arendt, Paul. "Ramsay needs to shoot a film about Kevin", The Guardian, 2006-06-06. Retrieved on 2008-05-04. 

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