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Laura Belsey | |
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| Born | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television director |
Laura Belsey is an American television director. [1] [2] [3] She is best known for directing The Walking Dead , Shadow and Bone , and Dr. Death . [4] [5]
Laura was born in New Orleans and raised in Switzerland. [6] She began directing commercials after graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. [7] She won a Gold Lion from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. [8] [9]
Belsey's work in television has received numerous critical accolades. Forbes wrote that "The Calm Before", one of the episodes she directed of The Walking Dead , "might actually be the best episode in series history." [10] Paste wrote that "Belsey demonstrates an immediate gift for naturalistic exchanges between these characters. From an execution standpoint, this episode was a brilliant breath of fresh air." [11]
Another Belsey-directed The Walking Dead episode, "Here's Negan" is "one of the most brilliant episodes in the show's 10-year history, according to Walking Dead executive producer and former showrunner Scott Gimple." [12] Zach Marsh of FilmSpeak gave the episode an "A+" - the highest possible grade on the site - calling it the series' best episode and adding that it "belongs on the same kind of "best episodes of the decade" lists. [13] Also from FilmSpeak: "Laura Belsey delivers another home run for "The Walking Dead". Her collaboration tonight with Morgan is the kind of director-actor output that we more commonly associate with cinema than with television, but the results are just as powerful." [13]
Den of Geek wrote of Preacher 's Les Enfants du Sang, it's "Laura Belsey's direction that pushes the episode toward comedic greatness." [14] The A.V. Club noted that her episode "Human Target" for Arrow "is damn near perfect." [15] while Geeks Worldwide declared that "Human Target is probably among the best directed Arrow episodes to date." [16]
Laura is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA). In August 2023, Laura Belsey was elected National Vice President of the Directors Guild of America, a position formerly held by Steven Soderbergh. [17] [18] [19]
