# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lynch
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:18:58.551Z

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name: "David Lynch"
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description: "The filmmaker who made surrealism feel inevitable on screen — the dream logic of Twin Peaks, the dread beneath Blue Velvet's white picket fences, the slow-burn unease of Eraserhead. Lynch didn't explain his work and didn't need to."
tagline: "American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor (1946–2025)"
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deathDate: "2025-01-16"
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  country:  null
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totalFollowers: 101000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  David Keith Lynch started as a painter in the 1960s and began making short films to put movement into his canvases. Eraserhead, his first feature, took five years to finish on a shoestring and became a midnight-movie fixture. The Elephant Man in 1980 brought him into the mainstream, followed by the poison-suburbia of Blue Velvet in 1986 and a Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart in 1990. He co-created Twin Peaks with Mark Frost the same year — a surrealist horror-mystery that rewrote what television could be and earned him nine Emmy nominations across its two runs. Mulholland Drive arrived in 2001 as a fever dream of Hollywood; Inland Empire in 2006 was his last feature. A Transcendental Meditation devotee for decades, he founded a charity to teach the practice to at-risk communities. He died at his daughter's home in January 2025, days after wildfire evacuations worsened the emphysema he'd carried from a lifetime of smoking.