Mimi LederFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1952
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer
Biography:: Mimi Leder cut her creative teeth in television as an Emmy award-winning producer/director before she got the chance to take on big-budget feature films in the late '90s. Leder was inspired by her father, independent director Paul Leder, to study at the American Film Institute. The first female...Read More

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Remember Their Names

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Jim Longhi's memoir of his time in the merchant marines with Woody Guthrie is adapted for feature film land by the sibling filmmaking team of director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact) and writer/brother Reuben. The production plans on leaning heavily on Guthrie's music catalogue throughout the picture. Read More

2009
The Code

Crew: Director

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: An experienced robber (Morgan Freeman) heavily in debt with the Russian mob engages a novice thief (Antonio Banderas) to pull off one last heist in this crime drama from director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact). Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) co-stars in the Millennium Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

2008
The West Wing: Election Day, Part 1

Crew: Director

2006
Vanished [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gale Harold, John Allen Nelson, Joanne Kelly, Rebecca Gayheart, Margarita Levieva

Synopsis: Debuting August 21, 2006, the hour-long Fox network series Vanished was a serialized drama in the tradition of 24 and Prison Break, this time with a bit of the "procedural" genre (à la Without a Trace) thrown in. Things got under way when Sara Collins (Joanne Kelly), the wife of prominent Georgia Read More

2006
Jonny Zero [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Franky G., GQ, Brennan Hesser, Christopher Bauer, Ritchie Coster

2005
Baltic Storm

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Dieter Laser, Juergen Schormagel

Synopsis: In an era when at-sea disasters have grown increasingly rare thanks to "foolproof" naval technology, the September 28, 1994 wreck of the ferry boat M/S Estonia raised more than a few eyebrows. En route from Talinn to Stockholm, via the Baltic Sea, the craft capsized and 852 civilians never reached Read More

2004
John Doe [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Azura Skye, Jayne Brook, John Marshall Jones, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Piecing together elements from such past series as The Profiler, Quantum Leap, and the 1967 cult classic Coronet Blue, John Doe starred Dominic Purcell as the title character. Awakening naked on a desert island, the hero eventually washed up in Seattle, where he quickly gained a reputation as a Read More

2002
The Beast

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

2001
Pay It Forward

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel

Synopsis: A young boy stumbles upon a simple way to change the world in this drama. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is a bright 11-year-old boy who comes from a troubled home; his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) is an alcoholic trying to hold down two jobs to support her son, while Trevor's father Jon Bon Jovi) left Read More

10/20/00
Deep Impact

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White Read More

1998
The Peacemaker

Crew: Director

Actors: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Alexander Baluev, Rene Medvesek

Synopsis: The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the Read More

1997
ER: The Healers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Paramedics Shep (Ron Eldard) and Raul (Carlos Gomez) are trapped in an apartment fire while trying to rescue three children. Back at the ER, Shep's lover, Carol (Julianna Margulies), anxiously awaits word on his fate as dozens of burn victims pour in. Elsewhere, Ross (George Clooney) accepts his Read More

1996
ER: Make of Two Hearts

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Carol (Julianna Margulies) takes a more than professional interest in Tatiana (Milana Vayntrub), a six-year-old Russian girl with AIDS who has been adopted -- and then abandoned -- by an American family. Overachiever Deb (Ming-Na) accidentally ingests some candy-coated LSD. And despite their Read More

1995
ER: Love's Labor Lost

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Emmy award-winning episode, Greene (Anthony Edwards) takes a potentially career-destroying risk after he misdiagnoses the condition of a woman (Colleen Flynn) and her unborn child. Although Greene's OR battle to save his patients' lives is the episode's focal point, several other subplots Read More

1995
ER: Everything Old is New Again

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The wedding of Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and John Taglieri (Rick Rossovich) is complicated by the fact that bridesmaid Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) is called away to care for the baby of her missing sister, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite). This minor crisis, however, is supplanted by a Read More

1995
ER: Welcome Back, Carter!

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the opening episode of ER's second season, Carter (Noah Wyle) gets off to a bad start on his first day as new surgical sub-intern by showing up extremely late and woefully unprepared. Also on hand is new third-year student Harper Tracy (Christine Elise), who endures an ordeal by fire thanks to Read More

1995
ER: A Miracle Happens Here

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Christmas and Hanukkah are simultaneously acknowledged during the holiday season at the ER. The faith of Holocaust survivor Hannah Steiner (Joan Copeland) is sorely tested when she is injured in a carjacking and her baby granddaughter is apparently kidnapped; and a priest (Tony Plana) who has been Read More

1995
ER: Days Like This

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Greene's (Anthony Edwards) miserable personal life continues to spill over into his professional one. Ultimately, he risks dismissal by admitting a patient (Michael Galeota) for observation against the orders of Pediatrics chief Dr. Neil Bernstein (David Spielberg). Meanwhile, Ross (George Read More

1995
Woman with a Past

Crew: Director

Actors: Pamela Reed, Dwight Schultz, Paul Le Mat, Richard Lineback, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Woman with a Past is about a prosperous real estate agent whose hidden life is revealed when federal agents arrest her for her past crimes. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
The Innocent

Crew: Director

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Polly Draper, Dean Stockwell, Keegan Macintosh, Jeff Kober

Synopsis: An autistic boy is a police officer's only hope at catching some robbers in this made-for-TV crime drama. Kelsey Grammer stars as Detective Frank Marlow, a cop assigned to track down some thieves who committed murder. He pins his hopes on a eight-year-old autistic boy (Keegan MacIntosh) who was Read More

1994
Baby Brokers

Crew: Director

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: The sneaky underworld of baby selling is the subject of this made-for-television movie. Cybill Shepard stars as a doctor who is trying to adopt a baby. She turns to a couple who claims to be willing to sell their child, only to be swindled out of her money and the child. ~ Bernadette McCallion Read More

1994
ER: Day One

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first "official" episode of ER, Ross (George Clooney) tries to save the eight-year-old victim of a drunk driver, and finds time to visit Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies), still recovering from her botched suicide attempt (for which Ross holds himself partially responsible). Elsewhere Read More

1994
ER: Hit and Run

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Carter (Noah Wyle) pulls off his first major blunder when he tells the wrong family that their teenaged son died in a car accident. Resident Romeo Ross (George Clooney) steps up his campaign to win Carol (Julianna Margulies) away from her current beau, Dr. Taglieri (Rick Rossovich). And the Read More

1994
ER: Blizzard

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A blizzard has left Chicago blanketed in two feet of snow -- and the ER is completely bereft of patient activity. But no sooner does the staff try to take advantage of their unexpected "layoff" than disaster strikes in the form of a horrendous 32-car pileup. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, Dr. Read More

1994
Marked for Murder

Crew: Director

Actors: Powers Boothe

Synopsis: A former criminal is recruited to help cops in this made-for-television movie. Powers Boothe stars as Mace Moutron, also known as The Sandman, a former convict who is used by the police to help fight crime. More familiar and more satisfied with the swiftness of street justice, the Sandman decides Read More

1993
There Was a Little Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, John Heard, Scott Bairstow, Elaine Kagan, Terri Ivens

Synopsis: Cybill Shepherd stars in this heart-tugging drama as a mother whose baby was abducted out of his bed. Fifteen years pass and she is working as a middle-school teacher in a different town. One of her students is a defiant 15-year-old. Despite the trouble he gives, there is something about the boy Read More

1993
House of Secrets

Crew: Director

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Vernon, Cicely Tyson, Michael Boatman

Synopsis: Mimi Leder, director of several 1990s action-adventure flicks directed this made-for-television drama. Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner stars as Marion Ravinel, a wife who conspires to kill her husband with the aide of his ex-lover. The film is based on the story featured in several movies, including Diabolique Read More

1993
A Little Piece of Heaven

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirk Cameron, Chelsea Noble

Synopsis: This Christmas-oriented TV-movie centers upon two teenaged orphans, Will (Kirk Cameron) and Violet Jenny Robertson. Both would like a family of their own, so Will abducts neglected or abused children in the dark of night. When they awaken, Will tells them they've died and gone to heaven. ~ Iotis Read More

1991
Nightingales

Crew: Director

Actors: Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Beautiful young women, all living together in one apartment in various states of undress: Yes, we're in Aaron Spelling country again. Made for TV, Nightingales is set in Los Angeles, and centers upon the lives and loves of eight toothsome student nurses. Just to prove that this isn't real life Read More

1988