---
name: "Laura Belsey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-belsey"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:32:50.635349+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."
---

# Laura Belsey

Director. Born in New Orleans.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1990–2010
- **Frequently works with:** [Daniel Sackheim](https://film.one/person/daniel-sackheim.md), [Darnell Martin](https://film.one/person/darnell-martin.md), [Ernest Dickerson](https://film.one/person/ernest-r-dickerson.md), [Karen Gaviola](https://film.one/person/karen-gaviola.md), [Rosemary Rodriguez](https://film.one/person/rosemary-rodriguez.md), [Rose Troche](https://film.one/person/rose-troche.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (1), 2010s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Belsey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91023916, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069513/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1381991

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)
- **Netflix:** [*The Walking Dead*](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Laura Belsey is an American television director. Born in New Orleans, she was raised in Switzerland and graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She began her career directing commercials and won a Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Belsey has directed episodes of numerous series, including six episodes of *The Walking Dead* (2019–2021), episodes of *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2013–2014) and later *Law & Order* (2025), as well as *Arrow*, *The Flash*, *Criminal Minds*, *Shadow and Bone* (2023) and *Dr. Death* (2023). She also directed the documentary *Katrina’s Children* (2008).

A member of the Directors Guild of America since 1993, Belsey was elected National Vice President of the guild in 2023.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dga.org, walkingdead.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Walking Dead* (2010), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *The Hunting Party* (2025), series, Director
- *Parish* (2024), series, Director
- *National Treasure: Edge of History* (2022), series, Director
- *Moonhaven* (2022), series, Director
- *The Endgame* (2022), series, Director
- *Fantasy Island* (2021), series, Director
- *Dr. Death* (2021), series, Director
- *Shadow and Bone* (2021), series, Director
- *Law & Order: Organized Crime* (2021), series, Director
- *The Equalizer* (2021), series, Director
- *For Life* (2020), series, Director
- *Batwoman* (2019), series, Director
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), series, Director
- *FBI* (2018), series, Director
- *Manifest* (2018), series, Director
- *Instinct* (2018), series, Director
- *S.W.A.T.* (2017), series, Director
- *Bull* (2016), series, Director
- *Queen of the South* (2016), series, Director
- *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, Director
- *Preacher* (2016), series, Director
- *Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders* (2016), series, Director
- *Chicago Med* (2015), series, Director
- *Blindspot* (2015), series, Director
- *Stitchers* (2015), series, Director
- *Bosch* (2015), series, Director
- *The Flash* (2014), series, Director
- *Arrow* (2012), series, Director
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, Director
- *Unforgettable* (2011), series, Director
- *The Walking Dead* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md)
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, Director
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Director
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *For Those I Loved* (1983), as Pola

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