Biography

With a passion for filmmaking but no connections to the business, Robert Lorenz moved to Los Angeles in 1989 and began climbing his way up through the film industry. Starting out on the backlot of Roger Corman's B-movie studio in Venice, California, less than a decade later Lorenz found himself working as the right hand to legendary director Clint Eastwood. In 2002, impressed by Lorenz's work ethic and a shared enthusiasm for movie-making, Eastwood asked Lorenz to produce MYSTIC RIVER, a film that would go on to become a cinema classic. A long, successful producing partnership followed as the two collaborated on over a dozen projects including the Oscar-winning Best Picture MILLION DOLLAR BABY, GRAN TORINO, INVICTUS, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and AMERICAN SNIPER, among others. Lorenz earned three Academy Award nominations along the way.

Moving into the director's chair in 2012, Lorenz's first feature was the well-received TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE, starring Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman. More Eastwood collaborations followed and after the record-breaking, box office success of AMERICAN SNIPER, for which he also directed the second unit, Lorenz made the decision to forego producing films for others and focus instead on his own writing and directing projects.

In 2019, Lorenz began collaborating with another Hollywood legend when Liam Neeson starred in THE MARKSMAN, a film directed, produced and co-written by Lorenz. Released at the height of the pandemic in 2020, the film was #1 at the theatrical box office for 2 weeks and went on to top the VOD charts for several weeks thereafter. Following the success of THE MARKSMAN, Neeson and Lorenz teamed up again for the feature film IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS. A tension-filled crime thriller set during The Troubles and shot entirely in Ireland, the film also stars Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon and Jack Gleeson.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lorenz studied film at the University of Iowa before moving to LA, where he now lives with his wife Melissa, a public high school english teacher, and their two children.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jack Vincent