Biography
Donald Petrie is an American film and television director and former actor. Born in New York City on 2 April 1954, he is the son of director Daniel Petrie and television producer Dorothea Petrie, and brother of writer Daniel Petrie Jr.
Petrie trained as a theatre major at California State University, Northridge, and began his career as an actor in the 1970s before becoming an American Film Institute Fellow in 1980 and shifting to directing. His feature films include Mystic Pizza (1988), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Miss Congeniality (2000), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) and Little Italy (2018). He has also directed episodes of series such as Chicago P.D. (2014), Chicago Med (2015) and The Kominsky Method (2018).
