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name: "Laura Nisbet Peters"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-nisbet-peters"
fi1m_id: "laura-nisbet-peters"
imdb_id: "nm0632598"
tmdb_id: 1788073
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:35:28.218895+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."
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# Laura Nisbet Peters

## Identity

Laura Nisbet Peters

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laura-nisbet-peters
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laura-nisbet-peters
- **IMDb ID:** nm0632598
- **TMDB ID:** 1788073
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1788073

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Laura Nisbet
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1788073

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Laura Nisbet Peters is a television director. Raised in Hong Kong, she attended Hong Kong International School and graduated from Stanford University. She trained in the Directors Guild of America Assistant Directors Training Program and worked for many years as a DGA assistant director on feature films and television series.

She has directed episodes of *The Fosters* (2017–2018), *Good Trouble* (2019–2024), *Sweet Magnolias* (2020), *Cruel Summer* (2021–2023), *Big Sky* (2022) and *Fire Country* (2023). Earlier in her career she worked as a second assistant director on films including *Congo* (1995), *Payback* (1999) and *The Million Dollar Hotel* (2000).

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Pest Control* (2024), Production Coordinator
- *Fire Country* (2022), series, Director
- *Cruel Summer* (2021), series, Director
- *Big Sky* (2020), series, Director
- *Sweet Magnolias* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/sweet-magnolias.md)
- *Good Trouble* (2019), series, Director
- *The Fosters* (2013), series, Director
- *The Million Dollar Hotel* (2000), Second Assistant Director
- *Payback* (1999), Second Assistant Director
- *Congo* (1995), Second Second Assistant Director
- *Brain Smasher... A Love Story* (1993), Second Assistant Director

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