Leslye Headland directed the comedic films Bachelorette, and Sleeping with Other People.
15 Facts About Leslye Headland
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Leslye Headland co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
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Leslye Headland served as the creator and showrunner on the Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte.
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Leslye Headland got her first job in the television industry in 2010 as a staff writer on the FX series Terriers.
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Leslye Headland wrote and directed the 2012 film version of her play Bachelorette, which was her debut as a feature film director.
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In 2015, Leslye Headland directed Sleeping with Other People based on her own script, which starred Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie.
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Leslye Headland has directed episodes of the television series Heathers and two consecutive episodes of the 2016 Starz TV series Blunt Talk, starring Patrick Stewart.
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Leslye Headland has directed episodes for SMILF and Black Monday.
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Leslye Headland directed four episodes and co-wrote three episodes of Russian Doll, which she co-created for Netflix with Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler.
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Russian Doll is the first television series that Leslye Headland co-created, and she was the last of the three women to come on board for the project.
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Leslye Headland was hired by Netflix to direct the film Tell Me Everything, a thriller about marriage based on the young adult novel of the same name.
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Leslye Headland was additionally anticipated to executive produce and direct the first episode of the Fox series Sisters.
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On May 4,2020, it was officially announced that Leslye Headland will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner for her own Star Wars series for Disney+, entitled The Acolyte, which takes place during the final days of the High Republic.
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Leslye Headland has written a neo-noir style play The Layover which received mixed reviews in 2016.
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Leslye Headland was brought up in a strict religious home and grew up watching the Marx Brothers and MGM musicals.