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Miriam Leder (/ˈliːdər/;[1][2] born January 26, 1952) is an American film and television director and producer noted for her action films and use of special effects.[3] She was the first female graduate of the AFI Conservatory, in 1973.

Mimi Leder
Leder at the 75th Annual Peabody Awards
Born	Miriam Leder (1952-01-26) January 26, 1952 (age 70) New York City, US
Nationality	American
Education	AFI Conservatory
Occupation	Film director, film producer, script supervisor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	Gary Werntz
Children	Hannah Leder

Early life

Leder was born in New York City in 1952, the daughter of Etyl, a classical pianist, and Paul Leder, a director, producer, actor, writer, and editor of such films as My Friends Need Killing, Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla, and Dismember Mama.[4][5] Leder was raised in Los Angeles in a Jewish household. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor from Brussels, Belgium, who was interned at Auschwitz.[6] During childhood, her father, a low-budget independent filmmaker, introduced Mimi and her siblings to film production. Her father often dropped her off at the cinema to watch the latest films. Leder states that one of the early films that had an impact on her was Federico Fellini's 8½.[4] She was the first woman accepted into the AFI Conservatory, where she studied cinematography.

Film career

Leder began her career as a script supervisor on a string of films, including Spawn of the Slithis (1978), Dummy (1979), The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980), and A Long Way Home (1980), and then moved to the TV series Hill Street Blues (1981). After making the short film Short Order Dreams, written and funded by her father Paul,[7] she screened it for Steven Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, and his friend Gregory Hoblit who hired her to direct an episode of L.A. Law.

In 1988, Leder directed episodes of Crime Story, The Bronx Zoo, Midnight Caller, then directed several episodes of China Beach (1988–91) for which she was nominated for four Emmys. She made the made-for-TV films Woman with a Past (1992), House of Secrets (1993), and Baby Brokers (1994), then became one of the core directors for ER (1994–2009). The show earned her Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series in 1995 and 1996. She returned to direct an episode of the series during its final season in 2009. She soon received a job offer from Steven Spielberg to direct the film The Peacemaker (1997).

Continuing to work for DreamWorks, she directed Deep Impact (1998) and Pay It Forward (2000) while simultaneously creating Sentimental Journey (1999), a personal love story about her parents. When asked for a reaction about her film Deep Impact (1998) vs. a rival movie release at the same time Armageddon (1998), she responded: “Michael Bay did come to my premiere, which really shocked me. And I can tell you that after — after [seeing] my film — he went and reshot the end of his.”[8] Leder went through a period after making Pay It Forward where she wasn't hired to direct any feature films. “Most women who don’t have commercial success are not asked back to the party. It did not hurt me in television, but it did in features.” [9] Leder felt as though she had been put into a "movie jail" by Hollywood for the lack of success of Pay It Forward.[9]

Leder's dry spell of feature films after the release of Pay It Forward drove her to other pursuits in television and film. She shot nine pilots and produced six series, including The Beast (2001), John Doe (2002), Johnny Zero (2005), and Vanished (2006). Leder also made many made-for-TV movies such as Thick as Thieves (2009), U.S. Attorney (2009), and Heavenly (2011).[10] In 2015, Leder was brought by HBO to direct a first-season episode of The Leftovers and later hired as a co-showrunner.

Leder's feature film On the Basis of Sex, the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's path to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was released in December 2018. It is Leder's first theatrical feature in 18 years.

Personal life

Leder has one daughter, Hannah, with her husband actor Gary Werntz.[11] Leder states she "was raised a feminist" and "was an anti-war protester all during the Vietnam War".[12]

Filmography

Feature films

• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Sentimental Journey (1999) (Short film)
• Pay It Forward (2000)
• Thick as Thieves (2009)
• On the Basis of Sex (2018)

Television

TV movies

Year	Title	Notes
1988	Nightingales	Pilot for the 1989 TV series
1990	Sisters	Pilot for the 1991 TV series
1991	A Little Piece of Heaven
1992	Woman with a Past
1993	Marked for Murder
	There Was a Little Boy
	Rio Shannon
	House of Secrets
1994	Baby Brokers
	The Innocent
2009	U.S. Attorney	Also executive producer
2010	The Quinn-tuplets
2011	Heavenly

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1987	L.A. Law	Yes		Episodes "Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover" and "Oy Vey! Wilderness!"
1988	A Year in the Life	Yes		Episode "The Little Disturbance of Man" and "Glory Days"
	Crime Story	Yes		Episode "The Hearings"
	The Bronx Zoo	Yes		Episode "On the Land, on the Sea and in the Halls"
	Midnight Caller	Yes		Episode "After It Happened"
1988–1991	China Beach	Yes	Yes	Director (13 episodes) Producer (22 episodes) Supervising producer (16 episodes)
2001	The Beast	Yes	Executive	Episode "The Price"
2002–2003	John Doe	Yes	Executive	Directed 5 episodes
2005	Jonny Zero	Yes	Executive	Directed 4 episodes
2006	The West Wing	Yes		Episode "Election Day Part I"
	Related	Yes
	Vanished	Yes	Executive	Directed 4 episodes
1994–2009	ER	Yes	Yes	Director (11 episodes) Supervising producer (14 episodes) Co-executive producer (11 episodes)
2010	Human Target	Yes		"The Wife's Tale"
2011–2012	Shameless	Yes		6 episodes
2012	Smash	Yes		Episodes "The Workshop" and "The Dress Rehearsal"
	Luck	Yes		"Episode Nine"
2014–2017	The Leftovers	Yes	Executive	Directed 10 episodes
2019–present	The Morning Show	Yes	Executive	Directed 7 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1990	Emmy Award	Outstanding Drama Series	China Beach	Nominated
1991	American Film Institute	Franklin J. Schaffner Award		Won
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	China Beach	Nominated
		Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
1992		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series		Nominated
1995			ER	Won
		Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
	Directors Guild of America Award	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series		Nominated
1996				Nominated
	Emmy Award	Outstanding Drama Series		Won
		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series		Nominated
1997	Directors Guild of America Award			Nominated
2000	Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards	Dorothy Arzner Award		Won
2006	Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	The West Wing	Nominated
2020	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	The Morning Show (Episode: "The Interview")	Nominated

Bibliography

• Scott, Tobias. “Veteran TV Director Still Tries to Scale Film Barriers.” New York Times (10/13/2015): C2. Accessed November 13, 2018
• Brodesser, Claude. “Helmer: Leder Among Men.” Daily Variety (6/9/2000): A4. Accessed November 13, 2018
• Goldman, Michael. “Mimi Leger: Director.” Millimeter (Nov 1998) Accessed November 13, 2018
• Rochlin, Margy. “For Mimi Leder, Persistence Pays Off.” Directors Guild of America Quarterly (Spring 2018) Accessed November 14, 2018

References

External links

• Mimi Leder at IMDb
• The Paley Center for Media: https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101220/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=38
• Mimi Leder DGA

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Miriam "Mimi" Leder (Nueva York; 26 de enero de 1950) es una directora y productora de televisión y cine estadounidense.

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Ми́ми Ле́дер (англ. Mimi Leder; род. 26 января, 1952; Нью-Йорк) — американский режиссёр и продюсер кино и телевидения. Стала первой женщиной, поступившей и окончившей высшую школу Американского института киноискусства. Лауреат премии «Эмми».

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