Laura Dern shares emotional tribute to David Lynch on what would have been director’s 79th birthday - The actor collaborated with Lynch on numerous projects after starring in ‘Blue Velvet’ in the 1980

David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and more, passed away on January 15 at the age of 78, just shy of his 79th birthday. It was a huge loss to cinema,

Laura Dern has marked what would have been David Lynch's 79th birthday.

The visionary "Twin Peaks" filmmaker is remembered as a complete original and built up quite the list of collaborators since 1984's "Dune."

When a director and an actor develop an ongoing creative partnership, a certain kind of magic happens, and this was certainly the case with actors Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern and director David Lynch.

Beloved filmmaker David Lynch died on January 15, and when his family broke the news the next day, Hollywood’s grief mourned the loss of the great director, including the stars of his many films. Laura Dern,

We were talking about ideas,” the Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet star says. “It was like, ‘What’s next?’ And then, suddenly—poof—he’s gone.”

The director himself came off as almost performatively normal. Masterpieces like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive” said otherwise.

It is true that David Lynch was a dark master, capable of depicting on-screen violence with more edge than most — but what is not often discussed is that he did find beauty in the world, time and time again.

What made David Lynch such an influential director was his ability to create eerily universal cinematic imagery that tapped into our dreams and nightmares.

Particularly in the Pacific Northwest, his cult runs in the water and nests in the soil.