Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer, best known for the feature films Ratcatcher (1999), Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), and You Were Never Really Here (2017). As of 2024, Ramsay is working on numerous feature films that have yet to be released. Her works are marked by a fascination with children and young people and the recurring themes of grief, guilt, death, and its aftermath. They are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music, and sound design to create their worlds. Ramsay was born on 5 December 1969 in Glasgow. She credits The Wizard of Oz as an early inspiration and studied fine art and photography at Napier College, Edinburgh. In 1995, she graduated from the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England. Her career is marked with numerous accolades and some controversies, including her departure from the project Jane Got a Gun. Ramsay has also been involved in the adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, an environmental horror, and Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, among others.