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name: "Laura Terruso"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-terruso"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T11:55:45.166025+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 Terruso

Director. Born in Brooklyn, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114913698, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2884474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1405645

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Dickinson*](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md) (68)

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## Biography

Laura Terruso is an American director, screenwriter and producer. She studied filmmaking in the graduate programme at New York University.

She directed an episode of the Apple TV+ series *Dickinson* (2021), the Netflix film *Work It* (2020) and *About My Father* (2023) for Lionsgate. She co-wrote and co-produced *Hello, My Name Is Doris* (2015), and directed the features *Fits and Starts* (2017) and *Good Girls Get High* (2018).

Terruso grew up in the Dyker Heights neighbourhood of Brooklyn with no family connections to the film industry.

*Sources: imdb.com, lauraterruso.com, cnbc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dickinson* (2019), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *About My Father* (2023), Director
- *Work It* (2020), Director
- *Dickinson* (2019), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/dickinson.md)
- *Late Night* (2019), Thanks
- *Good Girls Get High* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Fits and Starts* (2017), Radio Host, Producer, Writer, Director
- *Hello, My Name Is Doris* (2015), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Appropriate Behavior* (2015), as Margaret
- *The Ride* (2013), Director, Cinematography
- *Gayby* (2012), Yoga Class, Assistant Director
- *Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same* (2012), Producer
- *Doris & The Intern* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Dyke Dollar* (2010), Co-Producer, Director, Writer
- *The Slope* (2010), series, Director of Photography, Sound
- *The Last Butcher in Little Italy* (2008), Producer, Director
- *His Name Is Cosmo* (2006), Laurie, Director
- *Castrato Di Matteo's Audition Tape* (2006), (voice), Director, Writer

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