Leslye Headland is known for the play and 2012 film Bachelorette and 2015 film Sleeping with Other People.
18 Facts About Leslye Headland
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Leslye Headland co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll, along with Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler.
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Leslye Headland received her BFA in drama from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2002.
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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 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 upcoming film Tell Me Everything, a thriller about marriage based on the young adult novel of the same name.
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Leslye Headland is set to executive produce and direct a film based on the novel American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich from-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports for HBO Films starring Will Ferrell.
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Leslye Headland is additionally anticipated to executive produce and direct the first episode of the upcoming Fox series Sisters.
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Leslye Headland has alluded to being involved in a second season of Russian Doll, though no details on the season have been confirmed.
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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 was brought up in a strict religious home and grew up watching the Marx Brothers and MGM musicals.
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Leslye Headland identifies as a lesbian and married actress Rebecca Henderson in September 2016.