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Mary Sweeney was born on 1 January, 1953 in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S., is an American film editor (born 1953). Discover Mary Sweeney's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Film producer, director, writer, film editor |
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71 years old |
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Capricorn |
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1 January, 1953 |
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1 January |
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Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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United States
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Mary Sweeney Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Mary Sweeney's Husband?
Her husband is David Lynch (m. May 2006-July 2006)
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David Lynch (m. May 2006-July 2006) |
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Mary Sweeney Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mary Sweeney worth at the age of 71 years old? Mary Sweeney’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film producer. She is from United States. We have estimated Mary Sweeney's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Mary Sweeney is an American director, writer, film editor and film producer.
She was briefly married to American film director David Lynch, whom she collaborated with for 20 years.
From 1985 to 2006, Sweeney collaborated as producer, writer and editor with filmmaker David Lynch from Blue Velvet to Inland Empire.
Her editing credits include Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks (1991), Industrial Symphony (1991), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), On the Air (1992), Hotel Room (1993), Lost Highway (1996), The Straight Story (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Baraboo (2009).
Sweeney is a consulting producer/writer on Matthew Weiner's anthology series The Romanoffs.
She won the British Academy Award for Best Editing for Mulholland Drive.
As producer, she won the César Award for Best Foreign Film, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film.
She developed, produced, wrote and edited The Straight Story, for which Richard Farnsworth received an Academy Award nomination.
As a producer, she won the European Film Award For Best Foreign Film, and the film received four nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best First Screenplay and Best Actor.
Sweeney worked with Lynch on several films and television series, most notably the original Twin Peaks series (1990), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001).
Sweeney is the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor in the Writing Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
She was formerly the chair of the Film Independent board of directors.
Sweeney graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a BA in History.
She earned a Certificate of Fine Arts from the Corcoran School of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. After completing a master's in cinema studies at New York University, Sweeney worked her way up the ranks of film editing in New York and San Francisco, on films such as Reds by Warren Beatty, Tender Mercies by Bruce Beresford, Places in the Heart by Robert Benton, Little Drummer Girl by George Roy Hill, and The Mean Season by Phil Boursos.
Her producing credits date from 1995 and include Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, directed by Lynch, and Baraboo (2009), her directorial debut based on her original screenplay.
Sweeney continued to write screenplays while collaborating with Lynch.
These include The Surprise Party for Paramount Pictures, and Two Knives, a martial arts film for director Wong Kar-wai and Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Sweeney has been on the board of directors of Film Independent since 2000, and was elected chair of the board in 2012.
Film Independent is a non-profit arts organization that produces the Independent Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Film Independent Series at LACMA.
In 2003, she joined the faculty of the Division of Writing for Screen and Television in the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.
She wrote, directed, produced and edited a short silent film, In the Eye Abides the Heart, filmed in Buenos Aires, which premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, and then played the international festival circuit.
In 2009, she went on to write, direct, produce and edit her debut feature, Baraboo, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and won Best First Feature awards at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Between 2010 and 2015, she was a Fulbright Film Specialist and traveled for the State Department on Fulbright grants to Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Myanmar and Cuba to mentor filmmakers in those countries.
Sweeney is vice president and founding member of the Desert X non-profit Board of Directors.
Desert X is a site-specific art exhibition in the Coachella Valley.
She is a member in good standing of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Directors Guild of America, and Writers Guild of America, where she is on the WGA Independent Writers Committee.