Lynne Willingham

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Lynne Marie Willingham (born March 23, 1951 in San Francisco , California , as Lynne Marie Mirkovich ) is an American film editor and member of the American Cinema Editors .

Life

Lynne Willingham grew up in Studio City in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on the oldest of 12 siblings. Her father, a retired Navy captain, was an intermittent actor. Until 1969 she attended Corvallis High School in Studio City. During her subsequent art studies at the University of California, Los Angeles , she worked in retail. At the age of 25 she dropped out after her first marriage. On the advice of her brother, the film editor Steve Mirkovich , she tried to gain a foothold in the field of film editing . After a short time with a sound effects company, it was accepted by Paramount Pictures for shipping. She was first able to work on series like Happy Days , Laverne & Shirley and Mork vom Ork (Mork and Mindy) as a second assistant . Eventually she became an assistant editor and worked as such for Stephen Cannell Productions in 1984 .

Then Willingham edited the last season of Chief Physician Dr. with Robert Seppey and John Heath. West phall . About six months later, she became one of the editors of the Top of the Hill series . From 1997 to 2002 Willingham edited the X-Files series - The FBI's Creepy Cases . In 1998 she was nominated for an Emmy and an Eddie Award . In 2005 she worked with her husband Chris G. Willingham on the miniseries Empire , which was filmed and edited in Rome . For her work on Breaking Bad , she received two Emmys, two Eddie Awards and a Hollywood Post Alliance Award .

Lynne Willingham has been married since 1988 to film editor Chris G. Willingham, who received three Emmys for editing Series 24 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Eddie Awards ( American Cinema Editors )
  • 1998: Nominated for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television for The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases .
  • 2009: Winner in the category “Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television” for the episode Pilot of the series Breaking Bad.
  • 2010: Winner in the “Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television” category for the ABQ episode of the Breaking Bad series.
Emmy Awards
  • 1998: Nomination for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series for the X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases.
  • 2008: Winner in the category “Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series” for the episode Pilot of the series Breaking Bad .
  • 2009: Winner in the "Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series" category for the ABQ episode of the Breaking Bad series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Lynne Marie Mirkovich. In: californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved March 20, 2015 .
  2. Interview with Lynne Willingham. In: EDITORS GUILD MAGAZINE November – December 2008: Volume 29, Number 6. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, accessed on June 2, 2011 (English).