---
name: "Elena Maganini"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elena-maganini"
fi1m_id: "elena-maganini"
imdb_id: "nm0535718"
tmdb_id: 3121
wikidata_id: "Q5359064"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T01:56:01.982749+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."
---

# Elena Maganini

## Identity

Elena Maganini

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elena-maganini
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elena-maganini
- **IMDb ID:** nm0535718
- **TMDB ID:** 3121
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5359064
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Maganini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5359064, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535718/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3121

Editor. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Active:** 1986–2006
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 65 (1), 2000s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Maganini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5359064, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535718/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3121

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Dexter*](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md) (74)
- **Tubi:** [*Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer*](https://film.one/film/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer.md) (65)

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## Biography

Elena Maganini is an American film editor. She began her career working on commercials in Chicago before editing her first feature, *Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer* (1986), on which she also worked as sound editor. She collaborated with director John McNaughton on several subsequent projects, including *Mad Dog and Glory* (1993) and *Wild Things* (1998).

Maganini edited six episodes of the first season of the series *Dexter* (2006), including the pilot, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series. Her other television credits include episodes of *The Dead Zone* (2002), *Madam Secretary* (2014) and *Good Behavior* (2016). She received an Emmy nomination for the HBO miniseries *If These Walls Could Talk* (1996).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Dexter* (2006), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)
- *Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer* (1986), Fi1m 65, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *The Baker and the Beauty* (2020), series, Editor
- *Good Behavior* (2016), series, Editor
- *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, Editor
- *Dexter* (2006), series, Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)
- *8MM 2* (2005), Editor
- *The Dead Zone* (2002), series, Editor
- *Speaking of Sex* (2001), Editor
- *Ed Gein* (2000), Editor
- *Condo Painting* (2000), Editor
- *Next Friday* (2000), Editor
- *Lansky* (1999), Editor
- *Wild Things* (1998), Editor
- *Infinity* (1996), Editor
- *If These Walls Could Talk* (1996), Editor
- *Normal Life* (1996), Editor
- *Four Rooms* (1995), Editor
- *Somebody to Love* (1994), Editor
- *Mad Dog and Glory* (1993), Editor
- *Victimless Crimes* (1991), Editor
- *Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll* (1991), Editor
- *The Borrower* (1991), Editor
- *Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer.md)

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