Actor

Laura Poitras

Directing

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Acting credits

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TMDB popularity

0.7

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Movies: 70Series: 3Crew credits: 68

TMDB ID: 220691

IMDb ID: nm0688636

Known for: Directing

Born: February 2, 1964

Age: 62

Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1988 - 2025

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 6.69

Wikidata: Q6499321

Other jobs

Executive Producer (44)Director (15)Producer (5)Editor (2)Director of Photography (1)Thanks (1)

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Biography

Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Laura Poitras.