Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American director and screenwriter. She directed the films Monster, Wonder Woman, and directed and wrote Wonder Woman 1984. For her work on the pilot episode of The Killing, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2017, she occupied the sixth place for Time’s Person of the Year.
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Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American director and screenwriter. She directed the films Monster, Wonder Woman, and directed and wrote its sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. For her work on the pilot episode of The Killing, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. In 2017, she occupied the sixth place for Time’s Person of the Year. Jenkins was born in Victorville, California, to William T. Jenkins, an Air Force captain and fighter pilot who earned a Silver Star in the Vietnam War, and Emily Roth, who worked in San Francisco as an environmental scientist. When Jenkins was 7, her father died during a NATO mock dogfight at the age of 31. She received her undergraduate degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1993, and her masters in directing from the American Film Institute’s AFI Conservatory in 2000.
In 2011 she directed one segment in the made-for-television anthology film Five. In October 2011, she was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World, the first sequel to Thor, but left the project after less than two months over creative differences. In 2015, Jenkins signed on as director for the DC Extended Universe film Wonder Woman, with a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and a story co-written by Zack Snyder and Jason Fuchs. In July 2017, the US cable network TNT announced Jenkins would direct the premiere of a six-episode television drama, I Am the Night, written by her author husband Chris Sheridan. In September 2017, Jenkins would return to direct Wonder Woman 2, which was scheduled to be released on June 5, 2020, but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release was delayed until December 25, 2020.
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