---
name: "Christine Swanson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christine-swanson"
fi1m_id: "christine-swanson"
imdb_id: "nm0841772"
tmdb_id: 947010
wikidata_id: "Q114495919"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 July 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T12:58:09.247997+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."
---

# Christine Swanson

## Identity

Christine Swanson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christine-swanson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christine-swanson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0841772
- **TMDB ID:** 947010
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114495919
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Swanson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114495919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841772/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/947010

Director. Born 15 July 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 July 1971, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Mykelti Williamson](https://film.one/person/mykelti-williamson.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Swanson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114495919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841772/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/947010

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Sweet Magnolias*](https://film.one/tv/sweet-magnolias.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Christine Swanson is an American director and screenwriter. She earned an MFA in Film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was selected as the Willard T.C. Johnson Fellow, and holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame, double majoring in communications and Japanese.

Swanson has directed episodes of television series including *Chicago P.D.* (2018), *Sweet Magnolias* (2025), *FBI*, *All American*, *Roswell, New Mexico*, *P-Valley*, *MacGyver*, *Bel-Air* and *Found*. She has also directed the television films *Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story* (2016) and *The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel* (2020).

Her feature directing credits include *All About You* (2001) and *Albany Road* (2024). She has received NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Directing in a Television Motion Picture.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sweet Magnolias* (2020), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/sweet-magnolias.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Basement People* (2026), Director
- *Albany Road* (2024), Writer, Director
- *Kemba* (2023), Writer
- *Found* (2023), series, Director
- *All American: Homecoming* (2022), series, Director
- *Bel-Air* (2022), series, Director
- *Fannie* (2022), Director
- *Baby* (2021), Executive Producer
- *P-Valley* (2020), series, Director
- *Sweet Magnolias* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/sweet-magnolias.md)
- *The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel* (2020), Director
- *Roswell, New Mexico* (2019), series, Director
- *All American* (2018), series, Director
- *FBI* (2018), series, Director
- *BlacKorea* (2017), Director, Writer
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, Director
- *Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story* (2016), Director
- *For the Love of Ruth* (2015), Director
- *To Hell and Back* (2014), Director
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, Director
- *All About Us* (2007), Writer, Director
- *Woman Thou Art Loosed* (2004), Writer
- *All About You* (2001), Director, Screenstory, Writer

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