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name: "Avi Youabian"
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updated: "2026-09-17T18:33:09.534568+00:00"
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# Avi Youabian

Director. Born in Tehran, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91234782, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1143132/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/971003

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Walking Dead*](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md) (68)

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## Biography

Avi Youabian is a director and editor. Born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Los Angeles, he is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

He began his career as an editor on film and television projects before moving into directing. His early directorial work includes the 2013 digital series *Tainted Love*, named by Variety as one of the top ten web series of that year, and the 2017 film *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel*. He has directed episodes of numerous television series, including *The Walking Dead* (2015), *Arrow* (2019), *The Blacklist*, *Zoo*, *DC's Legends of Tomorrow*, *MacGyver*, *All American*, *Batwoman*, *FBI: International* and others.

Youabian received an Emmy nomination for his directing and producing work on the web series *The Walking Dead: Red Machete*.

*Sources: imdb.com, walkingdead.fandom.com, allamerican.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Walking Dead* (2010), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *Countdown* (2025), series, Director
- *Rescue: HI-Surf* (2024), series, Director
- *Quantum Leap* (2022), series, Director
- *All American: Homecoming* (2022), series, Director
- *4400* (2021), series, Director
- *FBI: International* (2021), series, Director
- *Batwoman* (2019), series, Director
- *Another Life* (2019), series, Director
- *All American* (2018), series, Director
- *FBI* (2018), series, Director
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), series, Director
- *The Walking Dead: Red Machete* (2017), series, Director
- *Kidnap* (2017), Editor
- *Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within The Cartel* (2017), Director
- *Frequency* (2016), series, Editor
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, Director
- *DC's Legends of Tomorrow* (2016), series, Director
- *Zoo* (2015), series, Director
- *Justin Bieber's Believe* (2013), Editor
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, Director
- *The Call* (2013), Editor
- *Arrow* (2012), series, Director
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), series, Director
- *Step Up Revolution* (2012), Editor
- *Justin Bieber: Never Say Never* (2011), Editor
- *The Walking Dead* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)
- *Boys On Film 3: American Boy* (2009), Editor
- *The Young & Evil* (2008), Editor
- *Gwai Lo: The Little Foreigner* (2002), Editor

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