---
name: "Sue Federman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sue-federman"
fi1m_id: "sue-federman"
imdb_id: "nm0270138"
tmdb_id: 5072174
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T00:20:12.780081+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."
---

# Sue Federman

## Identity

Sue Federman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sue-federman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sue-federman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0270138
- **TMDB ID:** 5072174
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5072174

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1993–present
- **Also known as:** Susan Federman
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5072174

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) (88)
- **Netflix:** [*A Man on the Inside*](https://film.one/tv/a-man-on-the-inside.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Sue Federman is a television editor, also credited as Susan Federman. She began her career as a professional violinist with orchestras in Honolulu and San Francisco before a mid-life change to film editing. After attending a film-production workshop at the University of Southern California in 1994, she joined the union in 1996 and worked as an assistant and editor on sitcoms including *Becker* and *Frasier* (2003).

Federman edited 205 episodes of *How I Met Your Mother* (2005–2014) and received four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series for her work on that series and *How I Met Your Father* (2022). She has also edited *Man with a Plan* (2016–2020), *Loot* (2022) and *A Man on the Inside* (2024).

*Sources: tvtechnology.com, imdb.com, postperspective.com, televisionacademy.com, postmagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *A Man on the Inside* (2024), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-man-on-the-inside.md)
- *Frasier* (1993), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *A Man on the Inside* (2024), series, Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-man-on-the-inside.md)
- *Loot* (2022), series, Editor
- *Carol's Second Act* (2019), series, Co-Editor
- *Frasier* (1993), series, Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

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