Deborah Chow

Chow has directed various projects for television, including the 2014 TV movie adaption of V. Andrews' Gothic novel Flowers in the Attic and episodes of the series Copper, Murdoch Mysteries, Reign, Beauty and the Beast, and Mr. Chow is also a director on the first season of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019) and directed all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) for Disney+.

• Name — Deborah Chow • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Education — McGill University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) • Occupation — Filmmaker, television director, screenwriter • Known for — The High Cost of Living The Mandalorian Obi-Wan Kenobi

Chow is the half-Chinese daughter of parents who emigrated from Australia to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she grew up. Her Chinese father was an ardent movie fan and introduced to her the world of classic films and filmmaking. Chow graduated from Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. She received her undergraduate degree, major of cultural theory and minor in art history, from McGill University in Montreal, where she made her first short film. After graduation, she went on to complete her MFA in directing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she completed two short films and a feature screenplay, including her short film, Daypass, which screened internationally at over 35 festivals and won multiple awards.

Chow began her career writing and directing short films while studying film at university and broke out with her first feature film, The High Cost of Living, in 2010. As a film director, she has worked with notable actors James Urbaniak, Zach Braff and Isabelle Blais, among others. As a television director, she has worked on the BBC show Copper, the CW programs Reign and Beauty and the Beast, the CBC show Murdoch Mysteries and the USA Network series Mr. Robot. She also directed the adaptation of Flowers in the Attic on Lifetime, which starred Heather Graham and Kiernan Shipka. Chow served as director of two episodes of the Disney+ exclusive streaming television series, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, in which she also had a cameo role as a New Republic X-wing pilot. She was announced as the sole director for the Disney+ series that centers on Obi-Wan Kenobi. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy stated that "We really wanted to select a director who is able to explore both the quiet determination and rich mystique of Obi-Wan in a way that folds seamlessly into the Star Wars saga. Based on her phenomenal work developing our characters in The Mandalorian, I'm absolutely confident Deborah is the right director to tell this story." Chow directed the music video for "Black Summer", the first single off of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2022 album, Unlimited Love.

• Year — Show — Season — Episode — Episode title • 2013 — Copper — 2 — 8 — "Ashes Denote That Fire Was" • 2014–2017 — Reign — 2 — 7 — "The Prince of the Blood" • 13 — "Sins of the Past" • 19 — "Abandoned" • 3 — 5 — "In a Clearing" • 18 — "Spiders in a Jar" • 4 — 11 — "Dead of Night" • 2014 — Murdoch Mysteries — 8 — 6 — "The Murdoch Appreciation Society" • 7 — "What Lies Buried" • 2015 — Beauty & the Beast — 3 — 7 — "Both Sides Now" • 2015 — Mr. Robot — 1 — 6 — "eps1.5 br4ve-trave1er.asf" • 2016 — Turn: Washington's Spies — 3 — 4 — "Hearts and Minds" • 2016 — The Vampire Diaries — 7 — 10 — "Hell Is Other People" • 2016–2017 — Fear the Walking Dead — 2 — 9 — "Los Muertos" • 3 — 3 — "TEOTWAWKI" • 2016 — Tyrant — 3 — 5 — "A Rock and A Hard Place" • 2017 — Iron Fist — 1 — 11 — "Lead Horse Back to Stable" • 2017 — Shut Eye — 2 — 9 — "Vérité" • 2018 — Jessica Jones — 2 — 4 — "AKA God Help the Hobo" • 2018 — Lost in Space — 1 — 5 — "Transmission" • 2018 — Snowfall — 2 — 4 — "Jingle Bell Rock" • 2018 — Better Call Saul — 4 — 7 — "Something Stupid" • 2018 — The Man in the High Castle — 3 — 9 — "Baku" • 2019 — American Gods — 2 — 3 — "Muninn" • 2019 — The Mandalorian — 1 — 3 — "Chapter 3: The Sin" • 7 — "Chapter 7: The Reckoning" • 2022 — Obi-Wan Kenobi — 1 — 1 — "Part I" • 2 — "Part II" • 3 — "Part III" • 4 — "Part IV" • 5 — "Part V" • 6 — "Part VI"

• Year — Artist(s) — Title — Notes • 2022 — Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Black Summer" — Music video for their single from Unlimited Love

• Year — Title — Episode(s) — Role — Notes — Reference(s) • 2019 — The Mandalorian — "Chapter 6: The Prisoner" — Sash Ketter — Cameo • 2023 — "Chapter 21: The Pirate" • "Chapter 24: The Return" • 2026 — The Mandalorian and Grogu