Lynne Ramsay is a Scottish film director known for the movie, You Were Never Really Here.A Scottish film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer, Lynne Ramsay is best known for making Ratcatcher (1999) and Morven Callar (2002). The director-writer who has a fascination for making films for children and young people has a very distinct style of filmmaking, which mostly revolves around themes of grief, guilt, death and its aftermath. Although Ramsay's films do not have any memorable or powerful dialogues, she relies heavily on using images, music and sound design to tell her story.

A former member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, Ramsay is an alumna of the prestigious National Film and Television School, England where she studied film direction and cinematography. Having started her career a director and writer, she initially made only short films, after directing her maiden short film titled Small Deaths in 1996, she subsequently five more short films. Her first feature film directorial venture was Ratcatcher (1999) and later she made films like Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Swimmer (2012), and You Were Never Really Here (2018), an American drama mystery thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov and John Doman.