Lynda Obst

Lynda Rosen Obst^[1] (born April 14, 1950)^[1] is an American feature film producer and author.

Career

Obst is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California and then studied philosophy in the graduate program at Columbia University.^[2] Later she worked as an editor at The New York Times before moving to Los Angeles with her then-husband David Obst. Starting at The Geffen Film Company as a d-girl, her first major project was developing the scripts that would eventually become Flashdance.

Obst partnered with

In 1989, Obst founded the production company Lynda Obst Productions. Initially based at

In 2009, Obst completed principal photography as producer on the Ricky Gervais–Matthew Robinson co-writing and directing debut, The Invention of Lying (originally titled "This Side of the Truth"), starring Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner. The film was released in October 2009. She was also the producer of Gurinder Chadha's Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, released by Nickelodeon in 2008. In 2014, Obst collaborated with director Christopher Nolan to co-produce Interstellar, a science-fiction drama starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. This marked the first time her production company, Lynda Obst Productions, was credited for a production.

Obst is the author of the memoir Hello, He Lied (1996), which details her experiences in the modern studio system. She was one of the central figures in the battle over the

• Interstellar (2014) – film
• Good Girls Revolt (2015–2016) – television^[7]
• The Hot Zone (2019) – television

Filmography

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Thanks

Television

As writer

Publications

• The Sixties (Random House: New York, NY, 1978.
  ISBN 978-0394732398
  )
• Dirty Dreams: A Novel (New Amer Library Trade: New York, NY, 1990.
  ISBN 0-453-00731-7
  )
• Hello, He Lied (Little, Brown & Company: New York, NY, 1996.
  ISBN 0-316-62211-7
  )
• Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business (Simon & Schuster: New York, NY, 2013.
  ISBN 978-1476727745
  )

External links

• Lynda Obst at
  IMDb
• Lynda Obst Productions
• Interview with Lynda Obst for The Women Take Over