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Lynda Obst Biography (1950-)

Born April 14, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Robert A. and Claire (maiden name, Shenker) Rosen; married David Obst (divorced); children: Oliver. Addresses: Agent: William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills,CA 90212.; Office: Lynda Obst Productions, 5555 Melrose Ave., Bldg. 210, Hollywood, CA 90038.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Film company executive, producer, screenwriter, writer, editor, novelist

Birth Details

April 14, 1950

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Interviewee, Dawn Steel: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1998
• Interviewee, What Is a Producer?, E! Entertainment Television, 2001
• Host, Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (documentary; also known as Hello, He Lied), AMC, 2002
• Miniseries
• Herself, Naked Hollywood, 1991
• Television Executive Producer
• The 60s (miniseries), NBC, 1999
• (Uncredited) Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (documentary; also known as Hello, He Lied), AMC, 2002
• Film Producer
• Adventures in Babysitting (also known as A Night on the Town), Buena Vista, 1987
• Heartbreak Hotel, Buena Vista, 1988
• The Fisher King, TriStar, 1991
• This Is My Life, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991
• (Uncredited) Apollo 13, Universal, 1995
• One Fine Day, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
• Hope Floats, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
• The Siege (also known as Against All Enemies, Martial Law, and Untitled Ed Zwick Project), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
• The Wishbones, Fox 2000 Pictures, 1999
• Rite of Passage, Paramount, 1999
• Someone Like You ... (also known as Animal Attraction), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001
• Abandon, Paramount, 2002
• Film Associate Producer
• (As Lynda Rosen Obst) Flashdance, Paramount, 1983
• Film Executive Producer
• Sleepless in Seattle, Columbia TriStar, 1993
• Bad Girls, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994
• Contact, Warner Bros., 1997
• WRITINGS
• Television Specials
• Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (documentary; adapted from Obst's book of the same title; also known as Hello,He Lied), AMC, 2002
• Books
• (Editor) Rolling Stone History of the Sixties, Straight Arrow Books, 1974-1976
• (With Carol Wolper) Dirty Dreams (novel), New American Library, 1990
• Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches, Little Brown & Company, 1996

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Cosmopolitan, September, 1996, pp. 260-65
• Harpers, January, 1986, p. 26
• Interview, February, 1999, p. 56
• Maclean's, December 30, 1996, p. 101
• New York Times, September 20, 1991, p. C6; October 28, 1996
• Publisher's Weekly, July 11, 1994, p. 57; August 5, 1996, p. 425
• Texas Monthly, July, 1997, p. 84
• Variety, July 14, 1997, p. 43
• Wall Street Journal, March 2, 1992, p. A9