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- Birth nameLynda Rosen
- Lynda Obst was born on April 14, 1950 in New York, New York, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Interstellar (2014), Contact (1997) and Adventures in Babysitting (1987). She was married to David Obst. She died on October 22, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseDavid Obst (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Attended Pomona College, in Claremont, California, receiving her degree in Philosophy.
- She was introduced to Kip Thorne, the scientific consultant and executive producer of Interstellar (2014), by Carl Sagan.
- She is the best friend of Carl Sagan's widow/collaborator/co-writer, Ann Druyan.
- Rick Rosen, one of the founders of the Endeavor talent agency, is her younger brother.
- Studied philosophy in the graduate program at Columbia University.
- Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers. The studios are certainly complicit, but I think there's some part of it that is women not saying: 'I want this job!' For a really long time, the powerful women in this town have been the nurturers of talent as opposed to the talent. And somehow, women haven't felt empowered to say, 'Give the money to me to make the movie.'
- I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
- Contact (1997) was the first movie that made accurate science its number one goal.
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