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Home/People/Gwyneth Horder-Payton
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Born
Dec 10, 1962
Age 63
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

1
Movies
0
TV Shows
40
Directed
Also Known As
Gwyneth Payton
Gwyneth Horder Payton
Gwyneth Horder
Gwyneteh Horder-Payton
IMDb Profile

Gwyneth Horder-Payton

Directing

Biography
Gwyneth Horder-Payton (born December 10, 1962) is an American television director. Beginning in the late 1980s, she worked as an assistant director on many films, including Pacific Heights, The Doors, Raising Cain, I Love Trouble, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, and others. She made her television directorial debut on the FX series The Shield, on which she was working as a first AD. Some of her subsequent television directing credits include The Riches, Bionic Woman, My Own Worst Enemy, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Criminal Minds, The Unit, Cold Case, Numb3rs, Blue Bloods, Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, The Killing, NYC 22, Once Upon a Time, Hawaii Five-0, American Horror Story, Feud: Bette and Joan, 9-1-1, The Politician, 9-1-1: Lone Star and Big Sky. Horder-Payton is the granddaughter of actor Victor McLaglen (The Informer) and the niece of director Andrew V. McLaglen (Shenandoah). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gwyneth Horder-Payton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Shield: Family Meeting poster

The Shield: Family Meeting

as Self
2008