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name: "Ana Lily Amirpour"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "25 July 1976"
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average_as: "director"
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updated: "2026-09-17T14:41:29.591247+00:00"
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# Ana Lily Amirpour

Director. Born 25 July 1976 in Margate, Kent, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 25 July 1976, Margate, Kent, England, UK
- **Also known as:** آنا لیلی امیرپور
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Lily_Amirpour, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18704858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3235877/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1289604

## Coming up

- *Cliffhanger* (2027-04-29), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Legion*](https://film.one/tv/legion.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ana Lily Amirpour is a British-American film director and screenwriter of Iranian descent. She was born in Margate, Kent, England, and later moved to the United States with her family.

She studied at San Francisco State University and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Amirpour is known for her feature films *A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night* (2014), *The Bad Batch* (2017) and *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2022). She has also directed episodes of television series including *Legion* (2018), *Castle Rock* (2018), *The Twilight Zone* (2019–2020), *Briarpatch* (2020) and *Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Legion* (2017), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cliffhanger* (2027), Executive Producer, Story
- *The Night Agent* (2023), series, Director
- *Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities* (2022), series, Director
- *Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon* (2022), Writer, Director
- *Homemade* (2020), series, Director, Writer
- *Ride It Out* (2020), Cyclist, Writer, Director
- *Briarpatch* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *The Twilight Zone* (2019), series, Director
- *Castle Rock* (2018), series, Director
- *The Bad Batch* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Legion* (2017), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)
- *Breakthrough* (2015), series, Director
- *A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night* (2014), Skeleton Partygirl, Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *The Garlock Incident* (2012), Lily, Story
- *I Feel Stupid* (2012), Writer
- *A Little Suicide* (2012), The Butterfly (voice), Director, Writer
- *A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night* (2011), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Hairy* (2011), Director, Editor, Screenplay
- *Ana Lily Amirpour Likes This* (2010), Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *True Love* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Six and a Half* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Please Give Me You*, Screenplay, Director
- *Basketful of Heads*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Ana Lily Amirpour](https://film.one/media/person/727532/gallery-04367575ef10.jpg) Ana Lily Amirpour — Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Ana_Lily_Amirpour_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ana Lyli Amirpour - THE BAD BATCH (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/727532/gallery-06bc6e19e7a9.jpg) Ana Lyli Amirpour - THE BAD BATCH (2017) — Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Ana_Lyli_Amirpour_-_THE_BAD_BATCH_%2837540449536%29.jpg/1280px-Ana_Lyli_Amirpour_-_THE_BAD_BATCH_%2837540449536%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Barbara Crampton & Ana Lily Amirpour - REPLACE & THE BAD BATCH (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/727532/gallery-ea12901e20d6.jpg) Barbara Crampton & Ana Lily Amirpour - REPLACE & THE BAD BATCH (2017) — Moritz Barcelona from Barcelona, Catalunya, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Barbara_Crampton_%26_Ana_Lily_Amirpour_-_REPLACE_%26_THE_BAD_BATCH_%2837589326121%29.jpg/1280px-Barbara_Crampton_%26_Ana_Lily_Amirpour_-_REPLACE_%26_THE_BAD_BATCH_%2837589326121%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ana Lily Amirpour](https://film.one/media/person/727532/gallery-64e3568b0e56.jpg) Ana Lily Amirpour — Image via TMDB

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