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Adrian Lyne is known for:

  • Flashdance
    The popular 1980s dance movie that depicts the life of an exotic dancer with a side job as a welder whose true desire is to get into ballet school. It’s her dream to be a professional dancer and now is her chance.
  • Lolita
    Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
  • Unfaithful
    Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.

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Biography

Adrian Lyne (born in Peterborough, England and raised in London) is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for directing films that focus on sexually charged characters and often uses natural light, a fog machine and other effects to create eroticized atmospheres. He was educated at Highgate School. He began working in film after a number of television commercials. He directed the music video for "Maniac", the theme song from Flashdance written by Michael Sembello, as well as the film itself. He received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director in 1988 for Fatal Attraction.