Born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Began his career, like contemporaries Tony Scott, Ridley Scott and Alan Parker, directing the kind of glossy commercials which get screened at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Lyne first established himself on the international scene with FLASHDANCE (1983) and scored a huge box-office hit with FATAL ATTRACTION (1987). Since then, Lyne has been one of the most prominent - if not prolific - directors of mainstream hits. JACOB'S LADDER (1990) provided a serious, stylistically effective treatment of Bruce Joel Rubin's hallucinogenic screenplay about a Vietnam veteran (Tim Robbins) who learns that he and fellow soldiers had been the unknowing subjects of wartime drug experiments conducted by the Army. Lyne then scored another hit with INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993), which stirred a minor controversy with its story about a high-rolling gambler (Robert Redford) who offers $1 million to spend one night with another man's wife (played by Demi Moore). He directed the 1997 re-make of Nabokov's Lolita and produced and directed the 2002 hit UNFAITHFUL.  Nominated for Achievement in Direction 1987: FATAL ATTRACTION 1 nomination