Personal info
Known for
Editor
Gender
Female
Birthday
31 December
Location
Illinois, United States
Edit pageLynzee Klingman
Biography
Lynzee Klingman is an American film editor, born on December 31, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University, where she earned a degree in history. She began her career working on documentaries, commercials and industrial films before moving into feature-film editing.
She gained recognition for editing the documentary Hearts and Minds (1974) and the critically acclaimed drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she received an Academy Award nomination alongside Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn. Her other notable credits include Hair (1979), True Confessions (1981), The War of the Roses (1989), Little Man Tate (1991), A River Runs Through It (1992), Matilda (1996), Man on the Moon (1999) and Ali (2001).
Teaching and Recognition
In addition to her film-editing career, Klingman has taught editing at the University of Southern California, the American Film Institute and the ArtCenter College of Design. In 2021, American Cinema Editors honoured her with a Career Achievement Award for her contributions to filmmaking
Personal Life
Klingman is married to film director Richard Pearce, and they have two children.
