Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series Mad Men and the Showtime series Homeland. For her work in these two shows, she has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and seven Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the latter three times.
Lesli Linka Glatter

iDominick · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Name
- Lesli Linka Glatter
- Born
- 26 July 1953
- Birthplace
- Dallas, Texas, U.S.
- Occupation
- Television director
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Greenhill School
- Known for
- Twin Peaks · Homeland
- Honours
- Directors Guild of America Award · Dorothy Arzner Directors Award
- Languages
- English
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series Mad Men and the Showtime series Homeland. For her work in these two shows, she has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and seven Directors Guild of America Awards nominations, winning the latter three times.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Lesli Linka Glatter. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q460765 · wikipedia · Lesli Linka Glatter
In this article
Biography
Biography
She has also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for short film Tales of Meeting and Parting (1985).
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Lesli Linka Glatter • Born — 26 July 1953 • Birthplace — Dallas, Texas, U.S. • Occupation — Television director • Television — Twin Peaks Gilmore Girls Mad Men Homeland • Children — 1
Life and career
Life and career
Glatter was born in Dallas and began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her early choreography credits include William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A and the music video for Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life". Her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was 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, 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 the majority of her work is in television series. Glatter has received six 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), "The Tradition of Hospitality" (2015), "America First" (2016), and "Prisoners of War" (2020). 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 Netflix thriller series Pieces of Her. More recently, she and Cheryl Bloch launched Backyard Pictures with a first look deal at Universal Television. In September 2021, Glatter was elected president of the Directors Guild of America. She was succeeded by Christopher Nolan in September 2025. In February 2023, she directed and executive produced Love & Death, an HBO Max limited series written by David E. Kelley and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. It premiered on April 27, 2023. In January 2025, Glatter's house was destroyed by the Palisades Fire. In July 2025, she was one of four female directors to be nominated for an Emmy. She was nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding directing for a limited series/TV movie for Zero Day.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Notes • 1986–1987 — Amazing Stories • 1987 — Into the Homeland — Television film • 1988 — Vietnam War Story • 1990 — Brewster Place • 1990–1991 — Twin Peaks • 1992 — On the Air • 1993 — Black Tie Affair • 1994 — State of Emergency — Television film • 1994 — NYPD Blue • 1994 — Birdland • 1995–2008 — ER • 1996 — Murder One • 1998 — Brooklyn South • 1998 — Buddy Faro • 1999–2001 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit • 2000 — Freaks and Geeks • 2000–2007 — Gilmore Girls • 2001 — Third Watch • 2001 — Citizen Baines • 2002 — Presidio Med • 2002–2006 — The West Wing • 2005 — The O.C. • 2005 — Numb3rs • 2005 — Jonny Zero • 2005 — Revelations • 2005 — Grey's Anatomy • 2006 — The Evidence • 2006 — The Closer • 2006 — Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip • 2007 — Heartland • 2007 — Heroes • 2007 — Journeyman • 2007–2010 — Mad Men • 2007–2009 — House M.D. • 2008 — Swingtown • 2008 — The Starter Wife • 2009 — The Unit • 2009 — Weeds • 2009 — The Mentalist • 2009–2010 — Lie to Me • 2010 — The Good Wife • 2010–2012 — Pretty Little Liars • 2010–2012 — True Blood • 2011 — The Chicago Code • 2011 — The Playboy Club • 2012 — Boss • 2012 — Nashville • 2012 — Last Resort • 2012–2013 — The Newsroom • 2012–2020 — Homeland — 25 episodes • 2013 — The Walking Dead • 2013 — Justified • 2013 — Masters of Sex • 2013–2015 — Ray Donovan • 2014 — The Leftovers • 2017 — Six • 2017 — Law & Order True Crime • 2021 — The Morning Show — 1 episode • 2023 — Love & Death — 5 episodes • 2025 — Zero Day — 6 episodes
Music videos
Music videos
• Year — Title • 2004 — "Keeping Last"
Identity
Identity
Lesli Linka Glatter is recorded as having received Directors Guild of America Award and Dorothy Arzner Directors Award.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1953
Lesli Linka Glatter born at Dallas.
Films
• Year — Title — Notes • 1984 — Tales of Meeting and Parting — Short film • 1995 — Now and Then • 1998 — The Proposition
Awards and nominations
• Organizations — Year — Category — Work — Result — Ref. • Academy Award — 1984 — Best Live Action Short Film — Tales of Meeting and Parting • Primetime Emmy Awards — 2010 — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Mad Men (episode: "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency") • 2013 — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Homeland (episode: "Q&A") • 2015 — Outstanding Drama Series — Homeland (season 4) • Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Homeland (episode: "From A to B and Back Again") • 2016 — Outstanding Drama Series — Homeland (season 5) • Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Homeland (episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality") • 2017 — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Homeland (episode: "America First") • 2020 — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series — Homeland (episode: "Prisoners of War") • 2025 — Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie — Zero Day • Directors Guild of America Awards — 1991 — Outstanding Direction in a Drama Series — Twin Peaks (episode: "Episode 5") • 2010 — Mad Men (episode: "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency") • Homeland (episode: "Q&A") • 2014 — Homeland (episode: "The Star") • 2015 — Homeland (episode: "From A to B and Back Again") • Homeland (episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality") • 2019 — Homeland (episode: "Paean to the People") • 2021 — Homeland (episode: "Prisoners of War")
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
37,408 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Lesley SharpPerson
- Lesley WoodsPerson
- Lesley-Ann BrandtPerson
- Lesley-Anne DownPerson
- Leslie AustinPerson
- Leslie BanksPerson
- Leslie BrooksPerson
- Leslie CalvoPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Lesli Linka Glatter?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.