Mimi Leder

Leder was inspired by her father, independent director "Paul Leder", to study at the American Film Institute. The first female cinematographer to graduate from the AFI, Leder began her career in TV as a script supervisor. Leder moved to the director's chair with an episode of "L.A. Law" in 1986, branching out into TV movies with the student nurse drama "Nightingales" in 1988. Balancing TV features and series, Leder worked on the Emmy-friendly drama series "China Beach" during the early '90s and directed several telefilms, including two "Cybill Shepherd" child crime dramas, There Was a Boy (1993) and "Baby Brokers" (1994).

Leder moved into the 1990s TV pantheon when she began working as a director and co-executive producer on... Full Biography