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Lesli Linka Glatter
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Glatter in 2015
Born (1953-07-26) July 26, 1953 (age 71)
Occupation Television director
Television Twin Peaks
Gilmore Girls
Mad Men

Homeland
Children 1
President of the Directors Guild of America
Assumed office
2021
Preceded by Thomas Schlamme

Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is well-known for her work on popular TV shows like Mad Men and Homeland.

For her directing work, Lesli has been nominated for many awards. She has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and seven Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the Directors Guild award three times! She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for her film Tales of Meeting and Parting in 1985.

Life and Career Highlights

Lesli Glatter was born in Dallas, Texas. She started her career as a dancer and a choreographer, which means she created dance routines. She even choreographed for the movie To Live and Die in L.A. and the music video for Sheila E.'s song "The Glamorous Life".

Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984), was a short film. It was so good that it was nominated for an Academy Award! She made this film as part of a special program called the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women.

In 1995, Lesli directed her first full-length movie, Now and Then. This film is a coming-of-age story about four 12-year-old girls and their adventures during a summer in 1970.

Most of Lesli's work has been in television series. She has been nominated six times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. These nominations were for episodes of Mad Men (like "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency") and Homeland (including "Q&A" and "America First").

In 2018, Lesli became the chair of the advisory council for NBC's Female Forward program. This program helps ten women directors each year. They get to learn from experienced directors on a TV show and then direct at least one episode themselves!

In 2019, Lesli Glatter became an executive producer for the Netflix thriller series, Pieces of Her. More recently, she started her own company, Backyard Pictures, with Cheryl Bloch.

In 2021, Lesli Glatter was chosen as the president of the Directors Guild of America. This is a very important role in the film and television industry.

In 2023, she directed and was an executive producer for Love & Death, a limited series on HBO Max. It starred famous actors like Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons.

Films and TV Shows

Lesli Glatter has directed many films and television shows. Here are some of them:

Films

Year Title
1984 Tales of Meeting and Parting
1995 Now and Then
1998 The Proposition

Television

Year Title Notes
1986–1987 Amazing Stories
1990–1991 Twin Peaks
1994 NYPD Blue
1995–2008 ER
1999–2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2000 Freaks and Geeks
2000–2007 Gilmore Girls
2002–2006 The West Wing
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2007–2010 Mad Men
2007–2009 House M.D.
2010–2012 Pretty Little Liars
2012–2020 Homeland Directed 25 episodes
2013 The Walking Dead
2023 Love & Death Directed 5 episodes
2025 Zero Day Directed 6 episodes

Awards and Recognitions

Lesli Glatter has won and been nominated for many important awards for her directing work.

Year Award Category Work Result
1985 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film Tales of Meeting and Parting Nominated
1991 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Twin Peaks - "Episode 5" Nominated
2010 Mad Men - "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" Won
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated
2013 Homeland - "Q&A" Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Nominated
2015 Homeland - "From A to B and Back Again" Won
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated
2016 Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality" Nominated
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality" Nominated
Dorothy Arzner Directors Award Won
2017 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "America First" Nominated
2021 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "Prisoners of War" Won

See also

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