Director

Lenny Abrahamson

Directing

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 1All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 83281

IMDb ID: nm1049433

Known for: Directing

Born: November 30, 1966

Age: 59

Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2023

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 6.82

Wikidata: Q6522913

Also known as

Leonard Abrahamson • Leonard Ian Abrahamson

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Director (9)Executive Producer (2)

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Biography

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. 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 six episodes of and executive produced the television series Normal People, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lenny Abrahamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.