“I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.”

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.