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name: "Yangzom Brauen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yangzom-brauen"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "18 April 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:17:44.274469+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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# Yangzom Brauen

Director. Born 18 April 1980 in Bern, Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 18 April 1980, Bern, Switzerland
- **Also known as:** Yangzoma Braun
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1062017/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54023

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

Yangzom Brauen is a Swiss-Tibetan director and writer. Born on 18 April 1980 in Bern, Switzerland, she is the daughter of ethnologist Martin Brauen and artist Sonam Dolma Brauen. She began her career as an actress, appearing in Swiss and German television as well as films including *Æon Flux* (2005) and *Pandorum* (2009).

Brauen transitioned to directing with the short film *Born in Battle* (2015), which won the audience award at the Max Ophüls Preis and received the CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award and UNESCO Gandhi Medal. She has since directed numerous television episodes, including on *Law & Order* (2022–2023), *Station 19* (2020–2023), *9-1-1: Lone Star* (2022–2024), *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021–2024) and *FBI* (2021–2026). She is also the author of the memoir *Across Many Mountains* (2009).

Brauen remains active in the Tibetan freedom movement.

*Sources: yangzombrauen.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Director
- *Station 19* (2018), Director
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), Director
- *9-1-1: Lone Star* (2020), Director
- *American Horror Stories* (2021), Director
- *MacGyver* (2016), Director
- *FBI* (2018), Director
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), Director

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