Lesli Linka Glatter
Glatter in 2015
Born (1953-07-26) July 26, 1953 (age 70)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
OccupationTelevision director
TelevisionTwin Peaks
Mad Men
Homeland
Children1
President of the Directors Guild of America
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 7 Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the latter 3 times.[4][5] She has also received a nomination for 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 five 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) and "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015) and "America First" (2016).[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]

Partial filmography

Films

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

TV

Year Title Role Notes
2023 Love & Death
2022 Pieces of Her
2021 The Morning Show
2017 Six
2012–2020 Homeland
2012 The Newsroom
2011 True Blood
2011 The Chicago Code
2010–2012 Pretty Little Liars [24][25]
2010 Lie to Me
2010 The Good Wife
2007–2010 Mad Men
2007–2009 House M.D.
2009 The Mentalist
2009 Weeds
2009 The Unit
1995–2008 ER
2008 The Starter Wife
2008 Swingtown
2007 Heroes
2002–2006 The West Wing
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2005 Revelations
2005 Jonny Zero
2005 Numb3rs
2005 The O.C.
2002 Presidio Med
2001 Third Watch
2000–2001 Gilmore Girls
2000 Freaks and Geeks
2000 Citizen Baines
1999–2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1998 Buddy Faro
1998 Brooklyn South
1996 Murder One
1994 NYPD Blue
1994 Birdland
1992 Black Tie Affair
1992 On the Air
1990–1991 Twin Peaks
1990 Brewster Place
1986 Amazing Stories

Music Videos

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Keeping Last

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2021 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "Prisoners of War" Won
2020 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated [3]
2019 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "Paean to the People" Nominated [26]
2017 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "America First" Nominated [3]
2016 Dorothy Arzner Directors Award Won [27]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "The Tradition of Hospitality" Nominated [28]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated [3]
Outstanding Drama Series Homeland Nominated [3]
2015 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "From A to B and Back Again" Won [5][29]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated [3]
2014 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Homeland - "The Star" Nominated [30]
2013 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Homeland - "Q&A" Nominated [3]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Nominated [31]
2010 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Mad Men - "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency Nominated [3]
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series Won [4]
1991 Twin Peaks - "Episode 320006" Nominated
1985 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film Tales of Meeting and Parting Nominated [6]

References

  1. ^ "How prolific director Lesli Linka Glatter is forging a way forward for women in film". the Guardian. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "From 'Homeland' to 'Mad Men,' Lesli Linka Glatter calls the shots". Los Angeles Times. January 14, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Nominations Search | Awards Search". Television Academy. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Hurt Locker wins Directors' prize". February 1, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Homeland - DGA Award Episode". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Academy Awards Search | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Birnbaum, Debra (September 12, 2017). "Lesli Linka Glatter: 'It's Time That This Isn't an Issue Anymore'". Variety. Los Angeles.
  8. ^ "Lesli Linka Glatter". IMDb. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  9. ^ "List Of Academy Award Nominations". Los Angeles Times. February 7, 1985. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
  10. ^ "From 'Homeland' to 'Mad Men,' Lesli Linka Glatter calls the shots". Los Angeles Times. January 14, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  11. ^ "Lesli Linka Glatter". Emmys.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.,
  12. ^ "NBC Sets Advisors, Submission Process for Female Forward Directors Initiative". Variety. January 9, 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  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.
  14. ^ Elise Sandberg, Bryn (February 5, 2019). "Netflix Orders 'Pieces of Her' Thriller Series Based on Novel". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  15. ^ "Netflix orders thriller series pieces of her from #1 international bestselling author Karin Slaughter". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  16. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (April 1, 2021). "Lesli Linka Glatter & Cheryl Bloch Launch Production Company With First-Look Deal At Universal Television". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  17. ^ Littleton, Cynthia; Maddaus, Gene (September 18, 2021). "Lesli Linka Glatter Elected President of Directors Guild of America". Variety. Retrieved September 19, 2021.
  18. ^ Kelly, Sonaiya (September 19, 2021). "Lesli Linka Glatter is the new Directors Guild of America president". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  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.
  21. ^ Holden, Stephen (March 27, 1998). "FILM REVIEW; Take a Number, Please: One Very Busy Confessional". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  22. ^ Gates, Anita (October 29, 1995). "TAKING THE CHILDREN;And Then She Grew Up to Be Demi Moore". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  23. ^ Anderson, John (October 20, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : Female Bonding in a Fragmented 'Now'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  24. ^ "BBC Three - Pretty Little Liars, Series 1, Pilot". BBC. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  25. ^ "BBC Three - Pretty Little Liars, Series 1, The Jenna Thing". BBC. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  26. ^ Handel, Jonathan (February 2, 2019). "'Roma's' Alfonso Cuaron Takes Top Honor at DGA Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  27. ^ "The 2017 Crystal + Lucy Awards". Women In Film. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  28. ^ Kilday, Gregg (February 6, 2016). "2016 DGA Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  29. ^ Kilday, Gregg (February 7, 2015). "DGA Awards: 'Birdman's' Alejandro Inarritu Takes Top Film Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  30. ^ "DGA Awards: The Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. January 25, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  31. ^ Kilday, Aaron Couch,Gregg; Couch, Aaron; Kilday, Gregg (February 2, 2013). "DGA Awards: Ben Affleck Named Best Director for 'Argo'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 6, 2023.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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