Directing

Kimberly Peirce

Born September 8, 1967 · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (age 58)

Kimberly Peirce (born September 6, 1967) is an American feature film director, notable for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999). Her second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kimberly Peirce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Carrie

MovieDramaHorror

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry · 1999

MovieCrimeDrama

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Stop-Loss

Stop-Loss · 2008

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry · 1995

MovieDramaCrime

The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.

The Renegades

The Renegades · 2020

MovieDocumentary

Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.

The L Word

The L Word · 2004

SeriesDramaSoap

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

P-Valley

P-Valley · 2020

SeriesDramaCrime

Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.

Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire · 2014

Halt and Catch Fire

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Filmography

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Carrie

MovieDramaHorror

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Director

Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry · 1999

MovieCrimeDrama

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Director

Stop-Loss

Stop-Loss · 2008

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

Producer

Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry · 1995

MovieDramaCrime

The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.

Writer

The Renegades

The Renegades · 2020

MovieDocumentary

Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.

The L Word

The L Word · 2004

SeriesDramaSoap

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

Director

P-Valley

P-Valley · 2020

SeriesDramaCrime

Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.

Director

Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire · 2014

Halt and Catch Fire

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Director

SIX

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.

Director

Manhattan

Manhattan · 2014

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Director

Kidding

Kidding · 2018

SeriesDramaComedy

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

Director

American Crime

American Crime · 2015

SeriesDramaCrime

An anthology drama focusing on all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system dealing with crimes committed in America.

Director

Dear White People

Dear White People · 2017

Dear White People

SeriesComedyDrama

Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as "post-racial" as it thinks.

Director

TURN: Washington's Spies

TURN: Washington's Spies · 2014

TURN: Washington's Spies

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

Director

I Love Dick

I Love Dick · 2016

SeriesComedyDrama

Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, the series charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.

Director

Game of Silence

Game of Silence · 2016

Game of Silence

A successful Atlanta attorney's long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they'd buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past - a journey that will push the limits of their loyalty and quench their thirst for revenge.

Director