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Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. He is best known for directing independent films Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012), Frank (2014), and Room (2015), all of which contributed to Abrahamson's six Irish Film and Television Awards.
Lenny Abrahamson was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied physics and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. While at university he directed short videos with the Trinity Video Society, which he co-founded with Ed Guiney. He graduated in 1991 with first class honours (gold medal).
May 7, 2020 · Abrahamson remains the most original Irish filmmaker of his generation. Laced with lyrical beauty, his idiosyncratic wheelhouse is comparable to Joel and Ethan Coen’s. Abrahamson worked with Domhnall Gleeson on serio-comedy Frank (2014) and The Little Stranger (2018), and it was Abrahamson’s deeply moving Room (2015) that won Brie Larson ...
Jan 8, 2016 · Irish director Lenny Abrahamson talks to donald Clarke about his Oscar-nominated film 'Room'. Well, he didn't last.
Jan 15, 2021 · The Oscar-nominated director of Room (2015) is famed for his incredibly intimate filmmaking, but Normal People’s visceral evocation happened to arrive at the very point in our lives when intimacy seemed forbidden. The series had inadvertently tapped into the longing desires of an entire nation trapped languishing indoors.
Mar 2, 2023 · By a stroke of good fortune, Lenny Abrahamson happened to be in London on the day that Paul Mescal received his Oscar nomination for Aftersun, having flown over to see the actor perform on...
May 15, 2022 · Conversations With Friends is on BBC iPlayer from Sunday 15 May. Following the runaway success of his Normal People adaptation, Abrahamson is taking on Sally Rooney's debut novel.
