Director

Mary Sweeney

Production

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

1.2

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 5604

IMDb ID: nm0842156

Known for: Production

Born: January 1, 1953

Age: 73

Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1984 - 2025

Years active: 42

Average TMDB rating: 7.01

Wikidata: Q508871

Also known as

ماري سويني • Mary Sweeney

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Editor (4)Producer (4)Writer (2)Assistant Editor (1)Associate Editor (1)Script Supervisor (1)

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Biography

Mary Sweeney is an American director, writer, film editor and film producer. She was briefly married to American film director David Lynch, with whom she collaborated for 20 years. Sweeney worked with Lynch on several films and television series, most notably the original Twin Peaks series (1990), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001). Sweeney is the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor in the Writing Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She was formerly the chair of the Film Independent board of directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Sweeney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.