--- name: "Lee Toland Krieger" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-toland-krieger" fi1m_id: "lee-toland-krieger" imdb_id: "nm1767218" tmdb_id: 109745 wikidata_id: "Q6515302" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "24 January 1983" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-23T11:11:01.886123+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." --- # Lee Toland Krieger ## Identity Lee Toland Krieger - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-toland-krieger - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** lee-toland-krieger - **IMDb ID:** nm1767218 - **TMDB ID:** 109745 - **Wikidata ID:** Q6515302 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Toland_Krieger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6515302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1767218/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109745 Producer and director. Born 24 January 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 24 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Toland_Krieger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6515302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1767218/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109745 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*You*](https://film.one/tv/you.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Lee Toland Krieger > Lee Toland Krieger gives actors room and knows how to establish a television series. We rate his care with character and tone, though *You* sometimes rushes past the disturbing questions that make it worth watching. Penn Badgley’s voice-over in *You* (2018) turns courtship into surveillance. We were unsettled by how readily the narration lets us follow a stalker’s thinking; Badgley keeps the thriller entertaining while making that entertainment uncomfortable. Lee Toland Krieger directed the pilot and early episodes, helping establish a series that gets much of its effect from that awkwardness. It is a useful introduction to a director we rate for his work with actors and his handling of tone. Before the television work, he wrote and directed *The Vicious Kind* (2009), a contained character piece that depended on the performances. *Celeste and Jesse Forever* (2012) continued his interest in relationships and heartbreak, with comedy and drama needing to coexist without cancelling each other out. His economical, deliberate camerawork leaves space for actors, a useful discipline when small changes of feeling matter more than constant movement. His move into major studio features came with the romantic drama *The Age of Adaline* (2015). The shift towards television began in 2014 and has frequently involved pilots and establishing a programme’s visual approach. That makes *You* and the pilot of *Superman & Lois* (2021) representative assignments. His collaborators include producer Greg Berlanti and writer-producer Sera Gamble, and we would not credit a director with everything a series does. Establishing how a programme looks and giving its actors room to work is nevertheless a substantial job, even when others will take over. The limitation is clear in *You*: the social satire is blunt, and the plotting sometimes hurries past the questions worth asking. A confident opening cannot guarantee that a series will keep examining the behaviour it makes so watchable. That reservation does not undo the pleasure of Badgley’s performance, though it keeps our enthusiasm in proportion. Start with *You* if an uncomfortable stalker thriller appeals; allow for less patience in the storytelling than we would like. ## Biography Lee Toland Krieger is an American film director and screenwriter. Born on 24 January 1983 in Los Angeles, he graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television in 2005. Krieger's feature directorial debut was *The Vicious Kind* (2009), which he also wrote and produced. He went on to direct *Celeste and Jesse Forever* (2012) and *The Age of Adaline* (2015). He has directed episodes of several television series, including the pilot and other instalments of *You* (2018). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, Consulting Producer, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md) ## Complete filmography (17) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Brilliant Minds* (2024), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Dead Boy Detectives* (2024), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Shadow and Bone* (2021), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Superman & Lois* (2021), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Prodigal Son* (2019), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Deadly Class* (2019), series, Director, Executive Producer - *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018), series, Director, Executive Producer - *You* (2018), series, Director, Executive Producer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md) - *Riverdale* (2017), series, Director - *The Age of Adaline* (2015), Director - *Happyland* (2014), series, Director - *Modern/Love* (2012), Director, Writer - *Celeste & Jesse Forever* (2012), Director - *Denise* (2012), Director - *The Vicious Kind* (2009), Director, Writer, Producer - *December Ends* (2006), Director, Writer, Producer - *Just Picture It*, Director ## Gallery - ![Lee Toland Krieger](https://film.one/media/person/1300561/gallery-397c2f9e0ce4.jpg) Lee Toland Krieger — LGEPR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Lee_Toland_Krieger_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![(L-R) Actress Brittany Snow, Adam Scott and writer/director Lee Toland Krieger with the LG Electronics Kompressor Vacuum on The 25th Spirit Awards Blue Carpet h (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1300561/gallery-5a74ca3974b7.jpg) (L-R) Actress Brittany Snow, Adam Scott and writer/director Lee Toland Krieger with the LG Electronics Kompressor Vacuum on The 25th Spirit Awards Blue Carpet h (2010) — LGEPR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Brittany_Snow%2C_Adam_Scott_and_Lee_Toland_Krieger_with_the_LG_Electronics_Kompressor_Vacuum_on_25th_Spirit_Awards_Blue_Carpet_held_at_Nokia_Theatre_L.A._Live_on_March_5%2C_2010_in_LA.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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