“I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.”

Irish film and television director

Lenny Abrahamson, born Leonard Ian Abrahamson, is an Irish film and television director. He is known for a run of independent films that made his name, including Adam & Paul, Garage, What Richard Did, Frank, and Room. His work is closely associated with character-driven stories and small-scale drama, and those films brought him six Irish Film and Television Awards. He has built a reputation through directing for both cinema and television, with the listed films standing as the clearest markers of his career.