Daniel Minahan | |
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 Minahan at the Toronto Film Festival in 2024 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Education | School of Visual Arts (BFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Television director, film director, writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Daniel Minahan (born 1962) is an American television and film director and writer.
Minahan has directed several episodes of the HBO original series Six Feet Under , Deadwood , True Blood , The Newsroom and Game of Thrones ; he has also directed episodes of the Peabody Award-winning miniseries [1] Fellow Travelers and The L Word and on Showtime and Grey's Anatomy on ABC. He also wrote and directed the independent film Series 7: The Contenders .
He was also the writer (and second unit director) for the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol .
Minahan joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Minahan directed the episodes "Suffer the Little Children" [2] and "Mister Wu". [3] He returned as a director for the second season in 2005 and helmed the episode "Advances, None Miraculous". [4] He remained a director for the third and final season in 2006 and helmed the episode "A Two-Headed Beast". [5] Minahan directed the 2019 film continuation of Deadwood. [6]
Minahan majored in Film and Video at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987. [7] He is gay. [8]
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| Year | Show | Season | Episode title | Episode | Notes |
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| 2003 | Six Feet Under | 3 | "Everyone Leaves" [9] | 10 | |
| 2004 | The L Word | 1 | "Lawfully" | 5 | |
| Deadwood | 1 | "Suffer the Little Children" [2] | 8 | ||
| "Mister Wu" [3] | 10 | ||||
| Six Feet Under | 4 | "Can I Come Up Now?" [10] | 4 | ||
| 2005 | The L Word | 2 | "Life, Loss, Leaving" | 1 | |
| Six Feet Under | 5 | "Eat a Peach" [11] | 5 | ||
| "Ecotone" [12] | 9 | ||||
| Commander in Chief | 1 | "First... Do No Harm" | 5 | ||
| Deadwood | 2 | "Advances, None Miraculous" [4] | 10 | ||
| Grey's Anatomy | 2 | "Owner of a Lonely Heart" | 11 | ||
| 2006 | "17 Seconds" | 25 | |||
| Deadwood | 3 | "A Two-Headed Beast" [5] | 5 | ||
| Grey's Anatomy | 3 | "Time Has Come Today" | 1 | ||
| "Where the Boys Are" | 7 | ||||
| 2007 | The Black Donnellys | 1 | "The Black Drop" | 11 | |
| Big Love | 2 | "Damage Control" | 1 | ||
| John from Cincinnati | 1 | "His Visit: Day Nine" | 10 | ||
| Grey's Anatomy | 4 | "Let the Truth Sting" | 3 | ||
| 2008 | Swingtown | 1 | "Swingus Interruptus" | 9 | |
| Life on Mars | 1 | "Tuesday's Dead" | 6 | ||
| True Blood | 1 | "Sparks Fly Out" | 5 | ||
| 2009 | 2 | "Nothing But the Blood" | 1 | ||
| "Frenzy" | 11 | ||||
| The Good Wife | 1 | "Fixed" [13] | 4 | ||
| House Rules | Television feature | ||||
| 2010 | True Blood | 3 | "Bad Blood" | 1 | |
| 2011 | 4 | "Me and the Devil" | 5 | ||
| "Spellbound" | 8 | ||||
| Game of Thrones | 1 | "A Golden Crown" | 6 | ||
| "You Win or You Die" | 7 | ||||
| "The Pointy End" | 8 | ||||
| 2012 | The Newsroom | 1 | "Amen" | 5 | |
| True Blood | 5 | "Turn! Turn! Turn!" | 1 | ||
| 2013 | Game of Thrones | 3 | "Valar Dohaeris" | 1 | |
| "Dark Wings, Dark Words" | 2 | ||||
| Ray Donovan | 1 | "Bucky Fuckin' Dent" | 11 | ||
| Homeland | 3 | "Big Man in Tehran" | 11 | ||
| 2014 | Marco Polo | 1 | "Hashshashin" | 5 | |
| "White Moon" | 6 | ||||
| 2016 | 2 | "Hunter and the Sable Weaver" | 1 | ||
| "Measure Against the Linchpin" | 3 | ||||
| 2017 | House of Cards | 5 | "Chapter 53" | 1 | |
| "Chapter 54" | 2 | ||||
| 2018 | American Crime Story | 2 | "House by the Lake" | 4 | |
| "Don't Ask Don't Tell" | 5 | ||||
| "Alone" | 9 | ||||
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | Television feature | |||
| 2020 | Hollywood | 1 | "Hooray For Hollywood: Part 2" | 2 | |
| Ratched | 1 | "Mildred and Edmund" | 8 | ||
| 2021 | Halston | 1 | "Becoming Halston" | 1 | |
| "Versailles" | 2 | ||||
| "The Sweet Smell of Success" | 3 | ||||
| "The Party's Over" | 4 | ||||
| "Critics" | 5 | ||||
| 2022 | The Girl from Plainville | 1 | "Blank Spaces" | 8 | |
| 2023 | Fellow Travelers | 1 | "You're Wonderful" | 1 | [14] |
| "Bulletproof" | 2 | ||||
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