Lesli Linka Glatter Biography
Lesli Linka Glatter is an American film and television director who is best known for her work on Homeland, an American drama series.
Lesli Linka Glatter Age
Ms. Glatter is 67 years old as of July 26, 2020. She was born in Dallas, Texas, United States in 1953.
Lesli Linka Glatter Parents
Glatter’s parents were Jewish and she was born in Dallas, Texas.
Is Lesli Linka Glatter Married? | Lesli Linka Glatter Husband
Yes, the Homeland series director is married. Her husband is known as Clayton Campbell, a visual artist and consultant. The couple resides in Los Angeles and they have one child.
Lesli Linka Glatter Career
Ms. Glatter started her career as a dancer and choreographer with some of her early choreography credits including William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A and the music video for Sheila E.’s “The Glamorous Life”.
In 1984, she was involved with her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting, produced by Sharon Oreck. The film was later nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. 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, which is a coming-of-age story about four 12-year-old girls during an eventful summer in 1970.
She has made several television films for cable networks, but most of her work is in television series. Glatter has received four 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).
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.
On February 5, 2019, it was announced that Glatter would be credited as an executive producer alongside Bruna Papandrea and Charlotte Stoudt in the upcoming Netflix thriller series, Pieces of Her.
Lesli Linka Glatter Films and Television Shows
〉〉 1984 – Tales of Meeting and Parting (with Sharon Oreck)
〉〉 1986 – Amazing Stories
〉〉 1990 – Brewster Place
〉〉 1990–1991 – Twin Peaks
〉〉 1992 – On the Air
〉〉 1992 – Black Tie Affair
1994 – Birdland
1994 – NYPD Blue
1995 – Now and Then
1996 – Murder One
1998 – Brooklyn South
1998 – Buddy Faro
〉〉 1998 – The Proposition (1998)
〉〉 1999–2001 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
〉〉 2000 – Citizen Baines
〉〉 2000 – Freaks and Geeks
〉〉 2000–2001 – Gilmore Girls
〉〉 2001 – Third Watch
2002 – Presidio Med
2005 – The O.C.
2005 – Numb3rs
2005 – Jonny Zero
2005 – Revelations
2005 – Grey’s Anatomy
〉〉 2002–2006 – The West Wing
〉〉 – Heroes
〉〉 2008 – Swingtown
〉〉 2008 – The Starter Wife
〉〉 1995-2008 – ER
〉〉 2009 – The Unit
2009 – Weeds
2009 – The Mentalist
2007-2009 – House M.D.
2007–2010 – Mad Men
2010 – The Good Wife
2010 – Lie to Me
〉〉 2010-2012 – Pretty Little Liars
〉〉 2011 – The Chicago Code
〉〉 2011 – True Blood
〉〉 2012 – The Newsroom
〉〉 2012–present – Homeland
〉〉 2017 – Six
〉〉 TBA -Pieces of Her
Lesli Linka Glatter Awards
〉〉 2016: Dorothy Arzner Directors Award winner
〉〉 2009: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
