This page uses content from the Lynda Obst biography page on the English version of Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This list of authors can be seen in the page history. Rotten Tomatoes disclaims any and all warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of the content.

Lynda Obst is a feature film producer. Starting at The Geffen Film Company as a "d-girl", her first major project was developing the source material that would eventually become Flashdance.

She later partnered with Debra Hill in 1986. The partnership would go on to produce Adventures in Babysitting, Heartbreak Hotel and The Fisher King, among other projects.

Following The Fisher King (1991), Obst and Hill parted ways, Obst going on to produce Sleepless in Seattle, One Fine Day, Someone Like You (film), among other films.

Following the end of her relationship with Hill, Lynda Obst became an in-studio producer. She was one of the central figures in the battle over the Richard Preston article Crisis in the Hot Zone.

She is the author of the memoir Hello, He Lied (1996), detailing her experiences in the modern studio sytem.

She is currently writing and producing Interstellar, the upcoming film to be directed by Steven Spielberg.

Bibliography

• Dirty Dreams: A Novel, (New Amer Library Trade: New York, NY, 1990. ISBN 0-453-00731-7)
• Hello, He Lied, (Little, Brown & Company: New York, NY, 1996. ISBN 0-316-62211-7)

See also

• Crisis in the Hot Zone

Selected Filmography

• Flashdance (1983), Associate Producer
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Producer
• The Fisher King (1991), Producer
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Producer
• One Fine Day (1996)
• Someone Like You (film) (2001)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the biographical information on this page under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.