Director
Adrian Lyne
English filmmaker born March 4, 1941 in Peterborough, England. Began his career directing television commercials in the mid-1970s -- part of the "Adland Five" of British ad directors who moved into Hollywood features -- before breaking through with Foxes (1980) and Flashdance (1983). Became known for sexually charged, morally ambiguous dramas about seduction and betrayal: 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Fatal Attraction (1987, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director), Indecent Proposal (1993), Lolita (1997), and Unfaithful (2002). Jacob's Ladder (1990), his sole detour into horror, traded that domestic-thriller register for a hallucinatory study of a dying mind, and its central device -- restaging a character's death as a feature-length act of psychological denial -- became a widely imitated template for the genre.