--- name: "Veena Sud" canonical: "https://film.one/person/veena-sud" fi1m_id: "veena-sud" imdb_id: "nm0127894" tmdb_id: 1252869 wikidata_id: "Q1460369" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "25 June 1967" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-07T15:28:23.200994+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." --- # Veena Sud ## Identity Veena Sud - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/veena-sud - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** veena-sud - **IMDb ID:** nm0127894 - **TMDB ID:** 1252869 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1460369 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veena_Sud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1460369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252869 Producer and director. Born 25 June 1967 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 25 June 1967, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Also known as:** Veena Cabreros Sud, Veena Cabreros-Sud - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veena_Sud, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1460369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252869 ## Coming up - *Snow Globe Town* (2026-12-12), as Fran ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*The Killing*](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2011.md) (62) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Veena Sud > Veena Sud makes crime stories that stay with the people left behind rather than with the person who did it. Her patience with grief is the best thing in her work and, stretched over too many wet episodes, the worst. Veena Sud's crime stories open on a body and then look away from it. What interests her is the house the dead person came from: a kitchen, a telephone, parents who have not yet been told. In *The Killing* (2011), her remake of the Danish series *Forbrydelsen*, one murder is spread across whole seasons, each episode roughly a day, and the investigation is only half the programme. The other half is a family in a rain-soaked Seattle getting through the days after. "My interest as a writer has always been with the cost of a life," she has said, and on the evidence it is true. She came to this by way of *Cold Case* (2003), a procedural on which she rose from writer to executive producer and learned to build a story around a victim. *The Killing* was the turn: the case that would not close, the colour drained to green and grey, the sound mix doing the work the dialogue would not. Nineteen directors are credited across its 44 episodes, Patty Jenkins at the start, Jonathan Demme and Agnieszka Holland later, and it looks like one person's programme throughout, which tells you how firmly she ran it. She directed an episode herself; her job was the whole thing. Her own account is that the row over that series pushed her towards stories that finish. *Seven Seconds* (2018), a limited series about a police hit-and-run and the cover-up around it, told its whole story in a single run. *The Lie* (2018), a feature adapted from a German film about parents covering for a teenager's crime, brought back Mireille Enos and put Peter Sarsgaard beside her. Before that she shot *The Salton Sea* (2016) over two weekends in the desert, and after it she made *The Stranger* (2020) in short episodes built to be watched on a phone. We have not reviewed these and will not pretend to a view beyond the pattern: the same questions of whose life counts and what people do when nobody is looking, asked in less time. Her best quality and her worst are the same thing, which is patience. She will give a grieving mother a scene in which nothing happens but waiting, and she will give the viewer forty episodes of waiting around it. Our review of *The Killing* found two detectives worth following and a grief worth watching, rationed across far too many wet hours, and we stand by that. What got to us was never the question of who killed Rosie Larsen. It was the Larsens, and Michelle Forbes in particular, in rooms so underlit and so quiet that we found ourselves holding our breath. Then the detectives would get back in the car, the rain would start again, and we would remember how many episodes were left. Start with the first season, for Enos, Kinnaman and Forbes, and stop when the waiting stops paying. Her later work is shorter, and she seems to have noticed why. ## Biography Veena Sud is a Canadian-born American television writer, director and producer. She is best known as the creator, writer and executive producer of the crime drama series *The Killing* (2011–2014), an adaptation of the Danish series *Forbrydelsen*. The series earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and a Writers Guild of America nomination. Sud was born in Toronto and graduated from Barnard College before earning an MFA from New York University’s Film and Television program. She began her career in journalism and later wrote for series including *Push, Nevada* (2002). She served as a writer and executive producer on the CBS drama *Cold Case* (2003–2008). Her subsequent credits include creating and writing *Seven Seconds* (2018) for Netflix, writing and directing the film *The Lie* (2018), and creating the series *The Stranger* (2020). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org, deadline.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Killing* (2011), Fi1m 62, Writer, Teleplay, Director, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2011.md) ## Complete filmography (9) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Snow Globe Town* (2026), as Fran - *The Stranger* (2024), Director, Writer - *The Stranger* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator - *The Lie* (2018), Writer, Director - *Seven Seconds* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *The Killing* (2011), series, Writer, Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2011.md) - *Cold Case* (2003), series, Writer, Executive Producer - *The Good Son* (2003), Director of Photography - *One Night* (2000), Director, Writer --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/veena-sud