Lynn Novick
Lynn Novick is one of the most renowned and respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America. For more than 30 years she has been directing and producing landmark documentary films for PBS about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music. In collaboration with Ken Burns, she has created more than 80 hours of acclaimed programming including The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, The War, and Prohibition. Novick has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards. Lynn's most recent production -- her first as solo director -- is College Behind Bars, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and aired on PBS in 2019. Produced by Sarah Botstein, the series explores urgently contemporary and timeless questions - What is prison for? Who in America has access to educational opportunity? Six years in the making, the series immerses viewers in the inspiring and transformational journey of a small group of incarcerated men and women serving time for serious crimes, as they try to earn college degrees in one of the most rigorous prison education programs in America - the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). As the series unfolds, the incarcerated students master the liberal arts, reimagine themselves, come to terms with their pasts, become fully engaged citizens, and shatter stereotypes about incarcerated people and their intellectual and moral capacities. "What college does, it helps us learn about the nation," says BPI student Rodney Spivey-Jones. "It helps us become civic beings. It helps us understand that we have an interest in our community, that our community is a part of us and we are a part of it." "What you see in ... these heartbreaking, inspiring stories, " says Jamil Smith in Rolling Stone, " is a testament to the power of education, and why it remains such a dangerous and underrated weapon against a racially and economically unjust status quo in this nation." Similarly, the Washington Post noted that those who oppose prison education programs are "perhaps aggravated at the sight of these men overachieving and the personal freedom that knowledge bestows." The Education Writers of America honored the series for Best Visual Storytelling: "The commitment and effort the filmmakers took to tell the stories of [men and women] trying to better their lives by obtaining a college degree - and what their stories say about our criminal justice system - is nothing short of incredible....The film does honor to its subjects and the debate over the purpose of education and rehabilitation." Novick is collaborating with Burns, Botstein and writer Geoffrey C. Ward on several upcoming Florentine Films productions: a three part biography of Ernest Hemingway, a three part examination of America's response to the Holocaust, and a series on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Her next solo project is a major series on the history of crime and punishment in America. Potential future projects include a series on the history of Soviet spying in America, and a series about the public and private lives of remarkable American women. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale with honors in American Studies, and lives in New York City.
Lynn O'Donnell
Lynn O'Donnell is an actress and producer, known for Mount Adams (2021). She has been married to Michael O'Donnell since April 9, 1988. They have seven children.
Lynn Phillips
Lynn Phillips is known for Trading Paint (2019).
Lynn Rafferty
A queer Irish actress originally from Dublin's north inner city who now splits her time between Dublin and Toronto. Trained in Bull Alley Performing arts school and The Gaiety school of acting. Recent credits include BBC / Showtime TV series The Woman in the Wall, and the feature film Just Frankie is set to begin filming. Lynn can be seen across North America in the highly anticipated TV crime movie Bad Behind Bars, based on the actual events story of the notorious murderer Jodie Arias; Lynn plays one of the three lead roles Tracy Brown. Other credits include North Sea Connecion on BBC4 and A&E across North America for Mopar and Subotica Productions. Also a working voice actor, Lynn is a series regular in the top Netflix Cartoon series Daniel Spellbound; other voice work includes the lead character Thorn in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige video game for Ubisoft. Previous credits, The Expanse season 6 for Amazon. She is best known for her lead role as Detective Inspector Jen Rooney in the critically acclaimed Irish crime drama Taken Down, directed by recent BAFTA winner David Caffrey and her role as Nadine in the multi-award-winning Irish drama Love/Hate.
Lynn Ray
Lynn Ray is known for The Boy Next Door (2015). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Ferrand.
Lynn Redgrave
Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy Redgrave and Margaret Scudamore, all of whom were actors, her early aspirations were surprisingly to become an equestrienne or a chef. It was not until the age of 15 that she became more and more involved in acting and her father's stage performances. Attending London's Central School of Music and Drama, she made her stage debut in 1962 and began film work a year later. It wasn't until her lovable role as the ugly-duckling in Georgy Girl (1966), that she was taken notice and, as a result, won both the Golden Globe, New York Film Critics Circle Award and a nomination for the coveted Best Actress at the 1967 Academy Awards. Despite this promising performance, Lynn struggled to find promising follow-up work, she played the lead in the fluffy Smashing Time (1967) and The Virgin Soldiers (1969), low-key films that were relevant at the time of London's swinging 60s, but very quickly became largely forgotten. She married stage actor/director John Clark and her sister, Vanessa Redgrave, who was also Oscar-nominated the same year for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), was also gaining exposure and critical success if not surpassing Lynn, on both the British stage and films and was largely considered the leading face of England's breakout actresses of the '60s, alongside Julie Christie and other high-profile actresses. Becoming the label of Vanessa Redgrave's younger and chubbier sister "that did that film a few years ago" didn't sit well with Lynn and, as a result, she lost considerable weight and permanently settled in the U.S. in 1974 to distance herself from this. Primarily based in southern California, she regularly commuted to New York and became notable particularly on the Broadway stage, and had successful runs in "Black Comedy/White Lies" (1967), "My Fat Friend" (1974), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1976), "Knock Knock" (1976), "Saint Joan" (1977-1978), "Aren't We All" (1985) and "Sweet Sue" (1987). She was prolifically hired by major networks to appear on a variety of TV talk and game shows and held the position of co-host for a few seasons of Not for Women Only (1968), while acting on prime-time TV, whether it was guest spots, mini-series or short-lived TV series. For over 20 years, Redgrave's film career was infrequent and admittedly "terrible" by the actress herself, she notoriously played the title character in the critically-bashed, The Happy Hooker (1975), and the all-star cast misfire, The Big Bus (1976), and, in the 1980s, she focused in a different direction, becoming a spokesperson and commercial actress for "Weight Watches". This coincided with the release of her well- received book: "This Is Living: How I Found Health and Happiness", that detailed her weight issues and eating binges, it was also revealed that for years she suffered bulimia. In the mid-to-late '90s, Redgrave had somewhat of a resurgence in her career, from 1993-1994, she spent over 8 months on Broadway, as well as touring across the world, performing her own personally written show of "Shakespeare for My Father", that explored the bisexuality, aloof persona and intimidating resume of her father. In 1996, Scott Hicks reignited her film career after many years of inactivity by casting her in the Australian Oscar-winning hit, Shine (1996), in which she gave a short yet tender performance as "Gillian", the woman Geoffrey Rush's character falls in love with. Another Golden Globe win/Oscar nomination followed (this time in the supporting category) for her role as the Hungarian housekeeper in Gods and Monsters (1998). Her marriage abruptly ended in 1999, when infidelity was discovered on her husband's behalf and a nasty divorced followed, they produced three children Benjamin, Kelly Clark and Annabel Clark. Continually working her way through film, television and stage performances in the '00s, recently awarded the OBE, Lynn Redgrave was shocked to discover lumps on her body and was diagnosed with breast cancer. As a result, she took time to write "Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer" with her youngest daughter, Annabel Clark, in 2003 and tragically lost her 7-year battle on 2 May 2010 (aged 67) in her family home, surrounded by her loved ones. Her diagnosis led her to realize the beauty and simplicities of life, and she was quoted as saying: "there isn't any such thing as a bad day. Yes, bad things happen. But any day that I'm still here, able to feel and think and share things with people, then how could that possibly be a bad day?".
Lynn Rhodes
Lynn Rhodes is an actress, known for Ray & Liz (2018).
Lynn Righart
Lynn Righart is known for Moloch (2022).
Lynn Rippelmeyer
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Lynn Robertson Bruce
Lynn Robertson Bruce is known for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017).