---
name: "Deborah Chow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deborah-chow"
fi1m_id: "deborah-chow"
imdb_id: "nm1278887"
tmdb_id: 928830
wikidata_id: "Q18763959"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-23T10:48:04.847299+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."
---

# Deborah Chow

## Identity

Deborah Chow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/deborah-chow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** deborah-chow
- **IMDb ID:** nm1278887
- **TMDB ID:** 928830
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18763959
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Chow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278887/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928830

Director. Born 1 January 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1971, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 acting, 4 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Jim McKay](https://film.one/person/jim-mckay.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 71 (1), 2010s 81 (3), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 71 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2, Action & Adventure 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Chow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278887/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928830

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Better Call Saul*](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md) (84)
- **Disney+:** [*The Mandalorian*](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md) (76)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Vampire Diaries*](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. She studied at McGill University in Montreal, where she made her first short film, and later received an MFA from Columbia University.

Her debut feature, *The High Cost of Living* (2010), which she wrote and directed, followed earlier award-winning shorts *Daypass* (2002) and *The Hill* (2004). Chow has directed episodes of series including *Better Call Saul* (2018), *Mr. Robot*, *The Mandalorian* (2019) and all six episodes of the limited series *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022). She also directed the television film *Flowers in the Attic* (2014).

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Mandalorian and Grogu* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Sash Ketter — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu.md)

### Directed (4) — the average rests on these

- *The Mandalorian* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Sash Ketter — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md)
- *Better Call Saul* (2015), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *Mr. Robot* (2015), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/mr-robot.md)
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *The Mandalorian and Grogu* (2026), as Sash Ketter — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu.md)
- *Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *The Mandalorian* (2019), series, as Sash Ketter · Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md)
- *Lost in Space* (2018), series, Director
- *Snowfall* (2017), series, Director
- *American Gods* (2017), series, Director
- *Marvel's Iron Fist* (2017), series, Director
- *Shut Eye* (2016), series, Director
- *Marvel's Jessica Jones* (2015), series, Director
- *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), series, Director
- *Mr. Robot* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/mr-robot.md)
- *Better Call Saul* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), series, Director
- *Tyrant* (2014), series, Director
- *TURN: Washington's Spies* (2014), series, Director
- *Flowers in the Attic* (2014), Director
- *Reign* (2013), series, Director
- *Beauty and the Beast* (2012), series, Director
- *Copper* (2012), series, Director
- *The High Cost of Living* (2011), Director, Writer
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)
- *Murdoch Mysteries* (2008), series, Director
- *The Hill* (2004), Director, Writer, Costume Design, Editor
- *Daypass* (2002), Costume Design, Writer, Director

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