Coy Laura's father is actor and director, David Lynch. Lynch was born on January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana to Donald Walter Lynch (1915-2007), a research scientist working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Edwina Sunny Lynch (née Jones; 1922-2004), a writer and painter. He has Irish, Swedish, Dutch, English, and Scottish ancestry. He was raised a Catholic.