---
name: "Angela Robinson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/angela-robinson"
fi1m_id: "angela-robinson"
imdb_id: "nm1286340"
tmdb_id: 7312
wikidata_id: "Q459542"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "14 February 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:14:19.804163+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Angela Robinson

## Identity

Angela Robinson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/angela-robinson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** angela-robinson
- **IMDb ID:** nm1286340
- **TMDB ID:** 7312
- **Wikidata ID:** Q459542
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Robinson_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459542, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1286340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7312

Director. Born 14 February 1971 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 14 February 1971, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 71 (1), 2020s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Robinson_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459542, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1286340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7312

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Wednesday*](https://film.one/tv/wednesday.md) (71)
- **Disney+:** [*True Blood*](https://film.one/tv/true-blood.md) (71)

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## Fi1m on Angela Robinson

> Angela Robinson makes space for queer relationships inside genre stories and pays close attention to performers. We like those priorities, though *Wednesday* gives us more pleasure through its cast than through its mystery.

Spies and a lesbian romance share the screen in *D.E.B.S.* (2004), the feature Robinson wrote and directed from her own short. The combination is a useful introduction to her work: she repeatedly centres queer characters in stories that use camp, comedy or genre conventions. We like her willingness to give the romance that space. It provides a more specific reason to seek her out than the variety of her credits.

*Herbie: Fully Loaded* (2005) took her into studio filmmaking, before extensive television work on programmes including *The L Word*, *True Blood* and *Hung*. She returned to features as writer-director of *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* (2017), a biographical drama about Wonder Woman’s creators and their relationship. The move from spy comedy to biographical drama kept her interest in queer relationships central. Her television work requires a different assessment: a programme’s strengths and weaknesses cannot all be credited to one of its episodic directors.

In *Wednesday* (2022), Jenna Ortega finds real comedy in her heroine’s severity. We laughed at that severity, and the cast’s warmth and mischief made the less distinctive school mystery worth staying with. Robinson’s contribution came with two episodes of the second series (2025), so our enthusiasm for the programme should not be mistaken for a judgement of her episodes alone. Its dependence on performance does, however, suit her attention to actors’ physicality, voices and emotional detail.

Her *Wednesday* work reunited her with the showrunners from *Herbie: Fully Loaded*, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Robinson’s attention to performance is particularly useful in supernatural material, where actors must make unlikely situations convincing without explaining everything aloud. That is a sound reason to be interested in her direction, although it does not settle our reservation about this particular programme’s plotting. Start with *Wednesday* for Ortega; try *D.E.B.S.* for a clearer sense of Robinson’s own comic and romantic interests.

## Biography

Angela Robinson is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. She was born on 14 February 1971 and graduated from Brown University and New York University.

Robinson is known for directing the feature films *D.E.B.S.* (2004) and *Herbie: Fully Loaded* (2005), as well as *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* (2017). Her television credits include directing episodes of *The L Word*, *True Blood* and two episodes of the Netflix series *Wednesday* (2025). She received the Fusion Achievement Award from Outfest Fusion LGBTQ People of Color Film Festival in 2013.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Wednesday* (2022), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/wednesday.md)
- *True Blood* (2008), Fi1m 71, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/true-blood.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Wednesday* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/wednesday.md)
- *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* (2017), Director, Writer
- *How to Get Away with Murder* (2014), series, Writer
- *Girltrash: All Night Long* (2014), Writer, Producer
- *Sahasi Chori (Brave Girl)* (2013), Thanks
- *Charlie's Angels* (2011), series, Director
- *Hung* (2009), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *True Blood* (2008), series, Writer, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-blood.md)
- *Girltrash!* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Girltrash!* (2007), series, Director
- *Herbie Fully Loaded* (2005), Director
- *D.E.B.S.* (2005), Editor, Director, Screenplay
- *The L Word* (2004), series, Director, Writer, Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *D.E.B.S.* (2003), Writer, Editor, Director
- *The Kinsey 3* (1998), Director
- *Chickula! Teenage Vampire* (1995), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Strangers in Paradise*, Director
- *The Hunger*, Director

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