Lenny Abrahamson
Lenny Abrahamson
30.11.1966 (57 years) (Dublin, Ireland)
Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing such acclaimed independent films as Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012) and Frank (2014) all of which contributed to Abrahamson's six Irish Film and Television Awards. In 2015, he received widespread recognition for directing Room, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue. The film received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Abrahamson. In 2020, he directed 6 episodes of the TV series Normal People, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.