Happy Birthday Patty Jenkins! Her first film that she also wrote and directed was Monster (2003). Which featured Aileen Wuornos and earned Charlize Theron the Academy Award for Best Actress. Jenkins won the Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2004. Afterwards, she directed episodes of Arrested Development and Entourage. Next, Jenkins directed one part of the anthology Five, “Segment Pearl” (2011). She directed the pilot for The Killing (2011), a crime drama, Jenkins won The Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directing in Dramatic Series.
Patty Jenkins at Lynda Carter’s Walk of Fame ceremony, 2008, photo by the author.
In 2016, she appeared with Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter at Wonder Woman’s short role as Honorary Ambassador of the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Patty Jenkins became the first female director for superhero films with Wonder Woman (2017). It brought in a $821 million worldwide box office! She directed the first two episodes of the limited series I Am the Night that starred Chris Pine as Jay Singletary. It was based on Fauna Hodel’s memoir, One Day She’ll Darken (2008). Next, she directed the sequel, Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). Jenkins has upcoming Cleopatra with Gal Gadot and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.
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