Female Film Directors (Currently Working)
by syd_reeses_pieces | created - 08 Feb 2022 | updated - 09 Feb 2022 | Public
1. Greta Gerwig
Writer | Barbie
Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut ...
2. Jane Campion
Writer | Bright Star
Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...
3. Sofia Coppola
Actress | The Godfather Part III
Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...
4. Gurinder Chadha
Writer | Bend It Like Beckham
Gurinder Chadha was born in Kenya, and grew up in Southall, London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, directed several award winning documentaries for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Channel Four. In 2001, Chadha set up her own...
5. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | Zero Dark Thirty
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
6. Olivia Wilde
Actress | Tron: Legacy
Actress and activist Olivia Wilde is a modern day renaissance woman, starring in many acclaimed film productions, while simultaneously giving back to the community.
She was born on March 10, 1984 in New York City. Her parents are Leslie Cockburn (née Leslie Corkill Redlich) and Andrew Cockburn. Her ...
7. Chloé Zhao
Director | Nomadland
Chloé Zhao or Zhao Ting (born March 31, 1982) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Her second feature film, The Rider (2017), was critically acclaimed and received several accolades ...
8. Ava DuVernay
Writer | Queen Sugar
A director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor, Ava DuVernay made her feature film debut with the documentary This is the Life (2008), a history on hip hop movement that flourished in Los Angeles in the 1990's. This was followed by series of television music documentaries which ...
9. Olivia Newman
Director | Where the Crawdads Sing
Olivia Newman is an American film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing First Match (2018) and the 2022 feature adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing. Olivia was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in French and women's studies from Vassar College and an MFA in film ...
10. Mélanie Laurent
Actress | Inglourious Basterds
Mélanie Laurent was born in Paris, France. She is the daughter of Annick, a ballet teacher, and Pierre, a voice actor, who is most recognized for the French version of The Simpsons (1989). She has a younger brother, Mathieu, and has both Sephardi Jewish (from Tunisia) and Ashkenazi Jewish (from ...
11. Carrie Cracknell
Director | Persuasion
Carrie Cracknell is a leading British theatre director. She recently finished shooting her debut feature film, an adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion for Netflix / MRC, starring Dakota Johnson, which will be released on Netflix in 2022. Her most recent play, Sea Wall/ A Life, was nominated for ...
12. Autumn de Wilde
Director | Emma.
Autumn de Wilde was born on October 21, 1970 in Woodstock, New York, USA. She is a director, known for Emma. (2020), Florence + the Machine: My Love (2022) and The Postman Dreams (2016).
13. Nia DaCosta
Writer | Candyman
Nia DaCosta was born on November 8, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Candyman (2021), Little Woods (2018) and The Marvels (2023).
14. Patty Jenkins
Director | Wonder Woman
Patty Jenkins is a writer/director best known for directing Wonder Woman, the Warner Bros./DC Comics blockbuster of 2017, and her debut feature Monster. Patty also works in television where she is best known for the pilot and finale episode of AMC's hit show The Killing.
Patty began her career as a ...
15. Domee Shi
Writer | Turning Red
Domee Shi was born on August 19, 1989 in Chongqing, China. She is a writer, known for Turning Red (2022), Inside Out (2015) and Bao (2018).
16. Anne Fletcher
Director | The Proposal
Anne Fletcher was born on May 1, 1966 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is a director and actress, known for The Proposal (2009), Step Up (2006) and Hairspray (2007).
17. Brie Larson
Actress | Room
Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
18. Saela Davis
Director | God's Creatures
Saela Davis is known for God's Creatures (2022), The Fits (2015) and Worst Friends (2014).
19. Anna Rose Holmer
Director | The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer was listed as one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2015. Her narrative directorial debut, The Fits (2015 Venice International Film Festival, 2016 Sundance Film Festival), is a selection of the Venice Biennale College-Cinema 2014/2015 and the Sundance ...
20. Kasi Lemmons
Director | Harriet
Kasi Lemmons was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Harriet (2019), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Candyman (1992). She has been married to Vondie Curtis-Hall since August 19, 1995. They have two children.
21. Niki Caro
Director | Whale Rider
Niki Caro is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, born in 1967. Caro was born in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. She was educated first at the Kadimah College in Auckland, and then the Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. The School is a private girls' school, and ranks ...
22. Tamra Davis
Director | A Conversation with Basquiat
Began her career directing music videos for acts like Tone Loc, Depeche Mode, Indigo Girls, NWA, Hanson and Sonic Youth and made her first feature in 92 with Guncrazy starring Drew Barrymore. Ms Barrymore received a Golden Globe Nomination. She then went on to direct feature films starring Chris ...
23. Catherine Hardwicke
Director | Twilight
Hardwicke's first film as a director was the Sundance winner THIRTEEN which explored the transition into teenage years with an authenticity that still captures young audiences (1.3 billion Tik Tok engagements.) Hardwicke directed LORDS OF DOGTOWN before she became best known as the director of ...
24. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress | Secretary
Maggie Gyllenhaal was born on November 16, 1977 in New York City, New York as Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal, the daughter of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
25. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Director | Nowhere Boy
Sam Taylor-Johnson was born on March 4, 1967 in London, England, UK. She is a director and producer, known for Nowhere Boy (2009), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) and Love You More (2008). She has been married to Aaron Taylor-Johnson since June 21, 2012. They have two children. She was previously ...
26. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
27. Svetlana Cvetko
Cinematographer | Inside Job
Svetlana Cvetko, Director / DP
Svetlana's feature-length directorial debut is the award-winning "Show Me What You Got". An ode to "Jules et Jim" and the rule-breaking French New Wave, the film has been called "A work of courage in search of the meaning of life" by MadMass Cinema in Italy and "a ...
28. Shamim Sarif
Director | Despite the Falling Snow
Writer and director Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and director for film and TV. She is also a long-time advocate for the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community. Her new book, The Athena Protocol, is a feminist thriller released by HarperCollins in October 2019 as the ...
29. Silvia Carobbio
Director | Tell It Like a Woman
Silvia Carobbio is known for Tell It Like a Woman (2022), I pezzi che restano (2021) and Alcarràs (2022).
30. Taraji P. Henson
Actress | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She played a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a ...
31. Mipo Oh
Director | Soko nomi nite hikari kagayaku
Born 1977 in Mie, Japan. After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under prolific film director Nobuhiko Oobayashi (House). She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film Eye won a prize at the Short Shorts ...
32. Lucía Puenzo
Writer | XXY
Lucía Puenzo was born on November 28, 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a writer and director, known for XXY (2007), The German Doctor (2013) and The Fish Child (2009).
33. Maria Sole Tognazzi
Director | Viaggio sola
Maria Sole Tognazzi was born on May 2, 1971 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a director and assistant director, known for A Five Star Life (2013), Me, Myself & Her (2015) and Passato prossimo (2003).
34. Leena Yadav
Director | Parched
Born to an Indian Army General in Madhya Pradesh, she graduated with Economics honours from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She did Mass Communications from Sophia College, Mumbai. She is married to Aseem Bajaj, an Indian Cinematographer well known for his poetic imagery on films like ...
35. Maria Schrader
Director | She Said
Maria Schrader was born in Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 27th, 1965. She directed and co-wrote the screenplay of the awards-winning film Liebesleben (2007). As well, she directed Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016) and the Emmy-award wining miniseries Unorthodox (2020) (...
36. Sarah Polley
Actress | My Life Without Me
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...
37. Ellen Kuras
Cinematographer | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ellen Kuras was born on July 10, 1959 in New Jersey, USA. She is a cinematographer and director, known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Betrayal (2008) and P.O.V. (1988).
38. Susan Johnson
Director | To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Susan Johnson is a distinguished figure in the world of cinema, known for her multifaceted role as a Film Producer, Writer, and Director. With an impressive portfolio, she has produced 15 independent and studio films and directed over 40 music videos. Susan's feature directorial debut was the ...
39. Shiri Appleby
Actress | The Thirteenth Floor
Shiri jumped in front of the lens as a youngster appearing in Norman Lear Sunday Dinner and Lawrence Kasden's I Love You To Death. At 19 she had her breakout performance on the series Roswell, playing the leading role of Liz Parker. She went on to appear in ER, Six Degrees, as well as Mike Nichols'...
40. Anya Adams
Director | Prom Pact
Anya Adams is an award-winning Canadian-American director best known for Black-ish, Ginny & Georgia, and The Good Place. The Alice Initiative named Adams as one of the top emerging female filmmakers on The Alice List 2020. Winner of the NAACP Image Award 2020 for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy ...
41. Bryce Dallas Howard
Actress | Jurassic World Dominion
Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (née Alley). Her famous relatives ...
42. Wanuri Kahiu
Director | Rafiki
Wanuri's first feature film From A Whisper, based on the real events surrounding the 1998 twin bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania won Best Narrative Feature in 2010 at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, as well as five awards at the African Movie Academy Award, including Best...
43. Angela Robinson
Writer | D.E.B.S.
Angela Robinson was born on February 14, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for D.E.B.S. (2004), Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) and D.E.B.S. (2003). She is married to Alexandra Kondracke. They have one child.
44. Julia Hart
Writer | Fast Color
Julia Hart is known for Fast Color (2018), I'm Your Woman (2020) and Miss Stevens (2016). She has been married to Jordan Horowitz since 2008. They have two children.
45. Kat Coiro
Director | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Kat Coiro is an award-winning director, producer and EP. Her 2022 Universal Pictures film "Marry Me" starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson and Maluma, is certified fresh with a 92% audience score. "Marry Me" was simultaneously #1 in theaters and #1 on streaming. She directed the pilots for the ...
46. Amber Templemore
Director | Troop Zero
Amber Templemore (aka Bert of Bert&Bertie) is a director with a unique style of storytelling and a love for magical realism. Her wealth of creative experience and passion for all the arts ensures that she remains playful while character and story guides her every decision. Amber loves to move ...
47. Bertie Ellwood
Director | Hawkeye
Bertie Ellwood is a writer-director from the UK, based in Los Angeles. Her work includes Troop Zero starring academy award winners Viola Davis and Allison Janney, Hulu's The Great starring Elle Fanning, HBO's Our Flag Means Death starring Taika Waititi, and Lessons in Chemistry starring Brie Larson...
48. Maggie Betts
Director | The Burial
Maggie Betts is an American screenwriter and film director. Born and raised in New York City, she attended Princeton University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She is the daughter of Roland Betts (a real estate developer) and Lois Betts. In 2017, Maggie won the ...
49. Cherien Dabis
Producer | Amreeka
Cherien Dabis is a critically acclaimed and award winning Palestinian American film and television director, writer, and actress. Born in the U.S. and raised in Ohio and Jordan, Dabis studied film at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Most recently, Dabis was Emmy nominated for Outstanding ...
50. Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Director | Las horas contigo
Catalina Aguilar Mastretta was born on September 18, 1984 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is a director and writer, known for The Hours with You (2014) and Everybody Loves Somebody (2017).
51. Claire Scanlon
Director | Set It Up
Claire Scanlon directs single cam comedies for both network and cable. She started her career editing documentaries for PBS and the Discovery Channel. After supervising post and producing Last Comic Standing, she joined The Office in its fifth season. After directing The Office, Claire transitioned...
52. Melina Matsoukas
Director | Queen & Slim
Melina Matsoukas was born on January 14, 1981. She is a director and producer, known for Queen & Slim (2019), Insecure (2016) and Beyoncé: Formation (2016).
53. Kimberly Peirce
Director | Boys Don't Cry
Kimberly Peirce was born on September 8, 1967 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008) and Carrie (2013).
54. Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Producer | UnREAL
One of 8 women chose to participate in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women Shapiro wrote and directed "Sequin Raze" which went on to win honors at SXSW, New Directors New Films MoMA/ Lincoln Center and Palm Springs. After several networks showed interest in developing SR into a series, ...
55. Tanya Wexler
Director | Hysteria
Tanya Wexler was born on August 6, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an award-winning film and TV director, known for her feature films Hysteria (2011), Ball in the House (2001) and Finding North (1998). At current, Wexler lives in New York City with her four children and their dog, Snoopy.
56. Hannah Marks
Actress | Turtles All the Way Down
Hannah Marks is an actress and filmmaker who was named one of Rolling Stone's 25 under 25 Artists Changing the World in 2017. Her first feature After Everything (2018) FKA Shotgun as co-writer/director premiered to rave reviews at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival where Hannah was also nominated for the ...
57. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Director | Mustang
In 2011 Ergüven was invited to attend the Cannes Film Festivals Atelier to help develop her project, The Kings. While there she met fellow director Alice Winocour who was there to develop her first feature film Augustine. After Ergüven was unable to find financing for her film Winocour suggested ...
58. Zetna Fuentes
Director | The Nevers
Zetna Fuentes has established herself as one of the most in-demand directors, helming many of television's notable, award-winning shows. Most recently, Fuentes directed and executive produced episodes of the highly anticipated Hulu series, "Black Cake," based on the NY Times Bestseller. She also ...
59. Hanelle M. Culpepper
Director | Within
Selected for the inaugural class of 2019 ReFrame Rise directors, Hanelle M. Culpepper is an energetic and unflappable award-winning director whose television credits range from superhero action adventures to thrillers and genre films to character-driven dramas. In 2019, she was chosen to direct the...
60. Tricia Brock
Director | Killer Diller
Tricia Brock is known for Killer Diller (2004), The Walking Dead (2010) and 30 Rock (2006).
61. Alexis Jacknow
Actress | Clock
Alexis Jacknow is a Los Angeles based, multidisciplinary storyteller. She recently completed her feature film, Clock, a psychological thriller starring Dianna Agron and Melora Hardin.
Her debut short film, Again, world premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed by ...
62. Elissa Down
Director | Feel the Beat
Elissa Down is known for Feel the Beat (2020), The Black Balloon (2008) and The Honor List (2018).
63. Jude Weng
Director | Finding 'Ohana
Jude Weng is known for Finding 'Ohana (2021), Only Murders in the Building (2021) and The Good Place (2016).
64. Numa Perrier
Actress | The Perfect Find
Born in Haiti and raised in small-town USA, Numa Perrier is an actress, writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. She produces and develops TV and film projects under her production banner, House of Numa. She trained in acting under Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and Polina ...
65. Leslye Headland
Producer | Bachelorette
Leslye Headland was born on November 26, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Bachelorette (2012), Sleeping with Other People (2015) and Russian Doll (2019). She has been married to Rebecca Henderson since September 18, 2016. They have one child.
66. Chloe Okuno
Director | Slut
Chloe Okuno was born on August 1, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Slut (2014).
67. Sophia Takal
Actress | Green
Sophia Takal is known for Green (2011), Always Shine (2016) and V/H/S (2012).
68. Jennifer Peedom
Producer | River
Jennifer Peedom is known for River (2021), Sherpa (2015) and Solo (2008).
69. Anna Foerster
Director | Underworld: Blood Wars
Anna Foerster is known for Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), Outlander (2014) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004).
70. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Producer | The Rescue
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi was born on December 30, 1978 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for The Rescue (2021), Free Solo (2018) and Meru (2015). She has been married to Jimmy Chin since May 26, 2013. They have two children.
71. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Director | Wadjda
Haifaa Al Mansour is the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia and is regarded as one of the most significant cinematic figures in the Kingdom. She finished her bachelor's degree in Literature at the American University in Cairo and completed a Master's degree in Directing and Film Studies from ...
72. Sarah Spillane
Writer | Around the Block
Sarah Spillane is a writer and director, known for True Spirit (2023), Around the Block (2014), and The Apology (2008). Sarah grew up in Sydney, Australia before relocating to Los Angeles in 2009. Sarah's debut feature film Around the Block premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in ...
73. Alice Waddington
Director | Paradise Hills
Alice is co-writing and executive producing her second feature 'Scarlet' for Netflix and with writer Kristen SaBerre ('The Good Lord Bird') at MGM/Orion with Alana Mayo and Panchi Simeto; produced by Michael Costigan and Roxie Rodriguez at Aggregate Entertainment. Alice is also developing genre and...
74. Vicky Wight
Producer | Happiness for Beginners
Vicky Waldron Wight was born in Co. Cork, Ireland. Wight wrote and produced Boy Genius with Rita Wilson and Miles Brown. It won its category in multiple film festivals and the script was a finalist at Tribeca Film Festival's Untold Stories Program. Her feature debut, The Volunteer, won Best ...
75. Christy Hall
Writer | It Ends with Us
Christy Hall is known for It Ends with Us (2024), Daddio (2023) and The Husband's Secret.
76. Lindsey Ferrentino
Writer | Amy and the Orphans
Lindsey Ferrentino is a prolific screenwriter and playwright. She writes with, according to The New York Times, "a muscular empathy which seeks to enter the minds of people for whom life is often a struggle of heroic proportions." Whether writing about a female burn survivor or the first leading ...
77. Sydney Freeland
Director | Drunktown's Finest
Sydney Freeland was born on October 29, 1980 in Gallup, New Mexico, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Drunktown's Finest (2014), Rez Ball and Reservation Dogs (2021).
78. Barbara Bialowas
Director | 365 dni
Barbara Bialowas was born on August 20, 1978 in Opole, Opolskie, Poland. She is a director and writer, known for 365 Days (2020), Big Love (2012) and The Enthrall Sessions.
79. Victoria Mahoney
Director | Yelling to the Sky
Born and raised in New York, Mahoney developed her debut feature film "Yelling to the Sky" through the Directors and Screenwriters Sundance Institute Labs and was named an Auerbach Fellow, Annenberg Fellow, Cinereach Fellow, Maryland Fellow, Tribeca Fellow and IFP Narrative Lab fellow. She was ...
80. Diablo Cody
Writer | Juno
Diablo Cody is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Minnesota to live with her Internet boyfriend, Jonny who later became her husband. While there, she decided on a whim to take up stripping as a hobby of sorts.
She was working at an ad agency and got a promotion. The job wore her ragged ...
81. Alyce Tzue
Animation_department | Soar
Alyce draws on experience in a multitude of fields including a BA in architecture, classical music training, ballet, and graphic design to spearhead projects with an eye toward elevating female and minority representation.
After graduating from Princeton, Alyce moved across the country to pursue 3D ...
82. Jasmine McGlade
Producer | La La Land
Jasmine McGlade was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a writer and director, known for La La Land (2016), Fencer and Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009). She was previously married to Damien Chazelle.
83. Laura Terruso
Producer | Hello, My Name Is Doris
LAURA TERRUSO is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer. Only eight years out of film school, Laura has already directed four feature films, an episode of Apple TV's DICKINSON and a forthcoming experimental documentary.
She recently directed ABOUT MY FATHER for Lionsgate, starring ...
84. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Writer | Do Revenge
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was born on April 4, 1988 in Miami, Florida, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Do Revenge (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and Someone Great (2019).
85. Janet Mock
Producer | Pose
Janet Mock is a writer, director and executive producer for the FX series "Pose" and the Netflix limited series "Hollywood." She's also the New York Times bestselling and trailblazing author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017) about her journey as a trans ...
86. Halina Reijn
Writer | Instinct
Halina Reijn is a renowned director, actress, author and producer. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Dutch film Award, the Golden Calf for Best Actress , the Dutch theater awards Theo D'Or and Colombina, as well as the Courbois pearl, an oeuvre award which honours an actress who ...
87. Nicole Holofcener
Director | Enough Said
Nicole Holofcener was born on March 22, 1960 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Enough Said (2013), Friends with Money (2006) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). She was previously married to Benjamin Allanoff.
88. Jane Schoenbrun
Director | We're All Going to the World's Fair
Jane Schoenbrun was born on February 5, 1987 in Ardsley, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021), Collective: Unconscious (2016) and The Eyeslicer (2017).
89. Garrett Bradley
Director | Time
Garrett Bradley is known for Time (2020), Below Dreams (2014) and America (2019).
90. Daina Oniunas-Pusic
Director | Zvjerka
Daina Oniunas-Pusic is known for The Beast (2015), Rhonna & Donna (2016) and Tuesday (2023).
91. Kelly Reichardt
Director | Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida, to a family of police officers. She had an interest in photography from a very young age. She started by using her father's camera, which he used for photographing crime scenes. She went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in ...
92. Celine Song
Writer | Past Lives
Celine Song was born in 1988 in South Korea. She is a writer and director, known for Past Lives (2023), The Wheel of Time (2021) and Working in the Theatre (1976). She has been married to Justin Kuritzkes since June 11, 2016.
93. Cathy Yan
Director | Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Cathy Yan is known for Birds of Prey (2020), Dead Pigs (2018) and According to My Mother (2016).
94. Joanna Hogg
Director | The Souvenir
Joanna Hogg was born on March 20, 1960 in London, England, UK. She is a director and writer, known for The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir: Part II (2021) and Unrelated (2007).
95. Claire Denis
Director | High Life
The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...
96. Lila Neugebauer
Director | Causeway
Lila Neugebauer is known for Causeway (2022), Room 104 (2017) and The Last Thing He Told Me (2023).
97. Nahnatchka Khan
Director | Always Be My Maybe
Nahnatchka Khan was born on June 17, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Always Be My Maybe (2019), Totally Killer (2023) and Fresh Off the Boat (2015). She has been married to Julia Bicknell since November 2019.
98. Josephine Decker
Director | Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Josephine Decker is known for Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014), Shirley (2020) and Madeline's Madeline (2018).
99. Lindsey Anderson Beer
Writer | Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Lindsey Anderson Beer is known for Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023), Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) and Chaos Walking (2021).
100. Jennifer Flackett
Writer | The Adam Project
Jennifer Flackett is known for The Adam Project (2022), Big Mouth (2017) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008). She is married to Mark Levin.
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