Lesli Linka Glatter is a director of film, network, cable and premium cable television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli's TV work includes Homeland (2011), The Newsroom ( ...Show More
Lesli Linka Glatter is a director of film, network, cable and premium cable television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli's TV work includes Homeland (2011), The Newsroom (2012), The Walking Dead (2010), Justified (2010), Ray Donovan (2013), Masters of Sex (2013), Nashville (2012), Boss (2011), True Blood (2008), Mad Men (2007), The Good Wife (2009), Weeds (2005), House M.D. (2004), Heroes (2006), The West Wing (1999), NYPD Blue (1993), ER (1994), and Freaks and Geeks (1999), to name a few. Her first series was Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (1985), followed by Twin Peaks (1990), for which she received her first Director's Guild Nomination. Lesli has also directed numerous pilots, including Grace (2011), Gilmore Girls (2000), In My Life (2002), Newton (2003), and Pretty Little Liars (2010). In addition, Lesli was the Co-Executive Producer/Director of Shawn Ryan's The Chicago Code (2011), and Co-Executive Producer/Director of NBC's The Playboy Club (2011), John Wells' Citizen Baines (2000), HBO's The Leftovers (2014) and was the Executive Producer/Director of Homeland (2011) Seasons 3, 4, 5, and now 6. Lesli directed SIX a pilot written by William Broyles (Apollo 13, Castaway) about Seal Team Six.Lesli began her directing career through American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Her short film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1985), was nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning numerous awards in festivals throughout the country.Lesli made her feature film directorial debut with New Line's coming-of-age comedy Now and Then (1995) featuring Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell and Christina Ricci, followed by Polygram's romantic period drama The Proposition (1998), featuring Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe and William Hurt. She directed HBO's State of Emergency (1994), for which received a Cable ACE nomination for Best Picture, as well as a Humanitas award nomination. Lesli's other HBO films include Into the Homeland (1987) and Vietnam War Story II (1988) (V) (segment: The Promise).In 2010, Lesli was nominated for an Emmy for directing the Mad Men (2007) episode, Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency, as well as winning the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for the same episode. In 2013, she was nominated for her third Directors Guild Award for the Homeland (2011) episode, Q & A, as well as an Emmy nomination for the same episode. In 2014, Lesli was nominated for her fourth Director's Guild award for the season finale of _"Homeland"_(2011)_, The Star. Lesli won the Director's Guild Award for the _"Homeland"_(2011)_ episode, From A to B and Back Again and received her 3rd Emmy nomination. Most recently, Lesli was nominated for her 6th DGA Award for the _"Homeland"_(2011)_ episode The Tradition of Hospitality as well as her 4th Emmy nomination.Lesli serves on the Board of the Directors Guild of America, the Western Directors Council, the PAC Leadership Council, as well as being an advisor at the Sundance Directors Lab. Lesli recently received the Caucus Foundation Award, the Dorothy Arzner Directing Award from Women in Film and the Franklin Schaffner Award from the American Film Institute.Prior to her work as a director, Lesli was a modern dance choreographer, working throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Hide
