Daniel Minahan
American film director
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Daniel Minahan (born 1962) is an American television director and filmmaker.
Daniel Minahan | |
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Minahan at the Toronto Film Festival in 2024 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Education | School of Visual Arts (BFA) |
| Occupations | Television director, film director, writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Career
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 with the episode "Advances, None Miraculous".[4] For the third and final season in 2006, he directed the episode "A Two-Headed Beast".[5] Minahan directed the 2019 film continuation of Deadwood.[6]
The romantic drama On Swift Horses, directed by Minahan and based on the novel by Shannon Pufahl, had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024, and was released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics on April 25, 2025.
Personal life
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]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Episode(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003–2005 | Six Feet Under | "Everyone Leaves" | [9] |
| "Can I Come Up Now?" | [10] | ||
| "Eat a Peach" | [11] | ||
| "Ecotone" | [12] | ||
| 2004–2005 | The L Word | "Lawfully" | |
| "Life, Loss, Leaving" | |||
| 2004–2006 | Deadwood | "Suffer the Little Children" | [2] |
| "Mister Wu" | [3] | ||
| "Advances, None Miraculous" | [4] | ||
| "A Two-Headed Beast" | [5] | ||
| 2005 | Commander in Chief | "First... Do No Harm" | |
| 2005–2007 | Grey's Anatomy | "Owner of a Lonely Heart" | |
| "17 Seconds" | |||
| "Time Has Come Today" | |||
| "Where the Boys Are" | |||
| "Let the Truth Sting" | |||
| 2007 | The Black Donnellys | "The Black Drop" | |
| Big Love | "Damage Control" | ||
| John from Cincinnati | "His Visit: Day Nine" | ||
| 2008 | Swingtown | "Swingus Interruptus" | |
| Life on Mars | "Tuesday's Dead" | ||
| 2008–2012 | True Blood | "Sparks Fly Out" | |
| "Nothing But the Blood" | |||
| "Frenzy" | |||
| "Bad Blood" | |||
| "Me and the Devil" | |||
| "Spellbound" | |||
| "Turn! Turn! Turn!" | |||
| 2009 | The Good Wife | "Fixed" | [13] |
| 2011–2013 | Game of Thrones | "A Golden Crown" | |
| "You Win or You Die" | |||
| "The Pointy End" | |||
| "Valar Dohaeris" | |||
| "Dark Wings, Dark Words" | |||
| 2012 | The Newsroom | "Amen" | |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | "Bucky Fuckin' Dent" | |
| Homeland | "Big Man in Tehran" | ||
| 2014–2016 | Marco Polo | "Hashshashin" | |
| "White Moon" | |||
| "Hunter and the Sable Weaver" | |||
| "Measure Against the Linchpin" | |||
| 2017 | House of Cards | "Chapter 53" | |
| "Chapter 54" | |||
| 2018 | American Crime Story | "House by the Lake" | |
| "Don't Ask Don't Tell" | |||
| "Alone" | |||
| 2020 | Hollywood | "Hooray For Hollywood: Part 2" | |
| Ratched | "Mildred and Edmund" | ||
| 2021 | Halston | "Becoming Halston" | |
| "Versailles" | |||
| "The Sweet Smell of Success" | |||
| "The Party's Over" | |||
| "Critics" | |||
| 2022 | The Girl from Plainville | "Blank Spaces" | |
| 2023 | Fellow Travelers | "You're Wonderful" | [14] |
| "Bulletproof" | |||
| 2026 | Memory of a Killer | "Pilot" |
TV movies
- House Rules (2009)
- Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | No | Yes |
| 2001 | Series 7: The Contenders | Yes | Yes |
| 2024 | On Swift Horses | Yes | No |