Lesli Linka Glatter
Born: 1953-07-26 in Dallas, Texas, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Lesli Linka Glatter is an American film and television director and producer. She began her directing career through American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women; her first (short) film "Tales of Meeting and Parting" was nominated for an Academy Award in 1984. She was the president of the Directors Guild of America from September 2021 until September 2025, when she was succeeded by Christopher Nolan.
Filmography
2025
- Zero Day ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Love & Death ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- PIECES OF HER ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- The Morning Show ... (Director)
- This Changes Everything as Self
2018
- Half the Picture as Self
- Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary as Self
2017
- SIX ... (Director)
- Law & Order True Crime ... (Director)
- Seeing is Believing: Women Direct as Self
- Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon as Self
2014
- The Leftovers ... (Director)
2013
- Ray Donovan ... (Director)
- Masters of Sex ... (Director)
2012
- Nashville ... (Director)
- The Newsroom ... (Director)
2011
- Homeland ... (Director)
- The Playboy Club ... (Co-Executive Producer)
2010
- The Walking Dead ... (Director)
- Pretty Little Liars ... (Director)
- Justified ... (Director)
2009
- The Good Wife ... (Director)
- Lie to Me ... (Director)
2008
- The Mentalist ... (Director)
- True Blood ... (Director)
- Swingtown ... (Director)
2007
- Mad Men ... (Director)
- Journeyman ... (Director)
- Heartland ... (Director)
- Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2005
- Grey's Anatomy ... (Director)
- Weeds ... (Director)
- The Closer ... (Director)
- Numb3rs ... (Director)
- Revelations ... (Director)
2004
- House ... (Director)
2003
- The O.C. ... (Director)
2002
- Presidio Med ... (Director)
- In My Life ... (Director)
2001
- Citizen Baines ... (Director)
- An Introduction to David Lynch as Self
2000
- Gilmore Girls ... (Director)
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ... (Director)
- The West Wing ... (Director)
- Third Watch ... (Director)
- Freaks and Geeks ... (Director)
1998
- The Proposition ... (Director)
- Buddy Faro ... (Director)
1995
- Now and Then ... (Director)
1994
- ER ... (Director)
- State of Emergency ... (Director)
1992
- On the Air ... (Director)
1990
- Twin Peaks ... (Director)
1987
- Into the Homeland ... (Director)
1985
- Amazing Stories ... (Director)
- To Live and Die in L.A. ... (Choreographer)
- Tales of Meeting and Parting ... (Director)