Lenny Abrahamson
Academic
October 14, 2022, 4:30 PM EDT

Fund for Irish Studies — Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson

Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole interviews Academy Award-winning Irish film and television director Lenny Abrahamson on his career in film. Abrahamson is director of the critically-acclaimed “Room,” starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He also directed “Normal People,” a 12-episodes series for BBC, Hulu and RTE, adapted by and based on Sally Rooney’s Man Booker long-listed novel of the same name, for which he was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.