Lynda Obst

Lynda Obst Biography

Lynda Rosen Obst (born April 14, 1950) is a feature film producer. She was born in New York and is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, CA. 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.

She partnered with Debra Hill in 1986. The partnership would go on to produce Adventures in Babysitting, Heartbreak Hotel and The Fisher King, among other projects.

Following The Fisher King (1991), Obst and Hill parted ways; Obst became an in-studio producer going on to produce such notable films as Sleepless in Seattle, One Fine Day, Someone Like You, Contact, and The Siege. She was one of the central figures in the battle over the Richard Preston article Crisis in the Hot Zone.

She is the author of the memoir Hello, He Lied (1996), which details her experiences in the modern studio system. in 2009, she 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.

She is currently producing the upcoming films Interstellar and Higher Institute of Villainous Education.

Rick Rosen, one of the founders of the Endeavor talent agency, is Obst's younger brother.

Credits

Film

Flashdance (1983) " associate producer
Adventures in Babysitting (1987) " producer
Heartbreak Hotel (1988) " producer
The Fisher King (1991) " producer
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) " executive producer
Bad Girls (1994) " executive producer
One Fine Day (1996) " producer
Contact (1997) " executive producer

The Siege (1998) " producer
Hope Floats (1998) " producer
Someone Like You (2001) " producer
Abandon (2002) " producer
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003) " producer
The Invention of Lying (2009) " producer
Interstellar (2014) " producer

Television

Hot in Cleveland (2010"present) " executive producer
The Soul Man (2012"present) " executive producer

Publications

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 & Shuster: New York, NY, 2013. ISBN 978-1476727745)

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