Lesli Linka Glatter

Lesli Linka Glatter
Glatter in 2015
Born (1953-07-26) July 26, 1953 (age 71)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
OccupationTelevision director
TelevisionTwin Peaks
Gilmore Girls
Mad Men
Homeland
Children1
President of the Directors Guild of America
Incumbent
Assumed office
2021
Preceded byThomas Schlamme

Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director.[1] She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series Mad Men and the Showtime series Homeland.[2] For her work in these two shows, she has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations[3] and seven Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the latter three times.[4][5] She has also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Tales of Meeting and Parting (1985).[6]

Life and career

Glatter was born in Dallas and began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her early choreography credits include William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A and the music video for Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life".[7][8]

Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category.[9] She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna.

In 1995, Glatter directed her first feature film, Now and Then, a coming-of-age story about four 12-year-old girls during an eventful summer in 1970.[10]

She has made several television films for cable networks, but the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for the Mad Men episode "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (2009), and the Homeland episodes "Q&A" (2012), "From A to B and Back Again" (2014), "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015), "America First" (2016), and "Prisoners of War" (2020).[11]

In 2018 it was announced that Glatter would serve as chair on the advisory council for NBC's Female Forward. An annual initiative to give ten women directors the opportunity to shadow a director on one of NBC's scripted television series for up to three episodes. The experience concludes with an in-season commitment for each finalist to direct at least one episode of the series they shadow.[12]

On February 5, 2019, it was announced that Glatter would be credited as an executive producer alongside Bruna Papandrea and Charlotte Stoudt in the Netflix thriller series, Pieces of Her.[13][14][15] More recently, she and Cheryl Bloch launched Backyard Pictures with a first look deal at Universal Television.[16]

In 2021, Glatter was elected president of the Directors Guild of America.[17][18]

In February 2023, she directed and executive produced Love & Death,[19] an HBO Max limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. It premiered on April 27, 2023.[20]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Notes
1984 Tales of Meeting and Parting
1995 Now and Then [21][22]
1998 The Proposition [23]

Television

Year Title Notes
1986–1987 Amazing Stories
1987 Into the Homeland Television film
1988 Vietnam War Story
1990 Brewster Place
1990–1991 Twin Peaks
1992 On the Air
1993 Black Tie Affair
1994 State of Emergency Television film
1994 NYPD Blue
1994 Birdland
1995–2008 ER
1996 Murder One
1998 Brooklyn South
1998 Buddy Faro
1999–2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2000 Freaks and Geeks
2000–2007 Gilmore Girls
2001 Third Watch
2001 Citizen Baines
2002 Presidio Med
2002–2006 The West Wing
2005 The O.C.
2005 Numb3rs
2005 Jonny Zero
2005 Revelations
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2006 The Evidence
2006 The Closer
2006 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2007 Heartland
2007 Heroes
2007 Journeyman
2007–2010 Mad Men
2007–2009 House M.D.
2008 Swingtown
2008 The Starter Wife
2009 The Unit
2009 Weeds
2009 The Mentalist
2009–2010 Lie to Me
2010 The Good Wife
2010–2012 Pretty Little Liars
2010–2012 True Blood
2011 The Chicago Code
2011 The Playboy Club
2012 Boss
2012 Nashville
2012 Last Resort
2012–2013 The Newsroom
2012–2020 Homeland 25 episodes
2013 The Walking Dead
2013 Justified
2013 Masters of Sex
2013–2015 Ray Donovan
2014 The Leftovers
2017 Six
2017 Law & Order True Crime
2021 The Morning Show 1 episode
2023 Love & Death 5 episodes
2025 Zero Day 6 episodes

Music videos

Year Title
2004 "Keeping Last"

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1985 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film Tales of Meeting and Parting Nominated [6]
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 [4]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated [3]
2013 Homeland - "Q&A" Nominated [3]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Nominated [24]
2014 Homeland - "The Star" Nominated [25]
2015 Homeland - "From A to B and Back Again" Won [5][26]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated [3]
Outstanding Drama Series Homeland Nominated [3]
2016 Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality" Nominated [3]
Outstanding Drama Series Homeland Nominated [3]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality" Nominated [27]
Dorothy Arzner Directors Award Won [28]
2017 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "America First" Nominated [3]
2019 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "Paean to the People" Nominated [29]
2020 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "Prisoners of War" Nominated [3]
2021 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Won

References

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  13. ^ Andreeva, Nellie; Pedersen, Erik (February 5, 2019). "'Pieces Of Her': Netflix Orders Novel-Based Series From Lesli Linka Glatter, Charlotte Stoudt & Bruna Papandrea". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
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  15. ^ "Netflix orders thriller series pieces of her from #1 international bestselling author Karin Slaughter". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
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  19. ^ Aizen, Rebecca (February 16, 2023). "Elizabeth Olsen Is Looking for an Affair — and 'Payback' — in True Crime Drama Love & Death". People. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  20. ^ Walsh, Charlotte (August 22, 2022). "See Elizabeth Olsen's Take on Candy Montgomery in First Look at Love and Death". E! Online. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2022. Elizabeth Olsen plays accused killer Candy Montgomery in HBO Max's new miniseries Love and Death, which is set to premiere in 2023.
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