---
name: "Zetna Fuentes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zetna-fuentes"
fi1m_id: "zetna-fuentes"
imdb_id: "nm0297489"
tmdb_id: 1426793
wikidata_id: "Q16201697"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "director"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-09-23T11:59:57.550418+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."
---

# Zetna Fuentes

## Identity

Zetna Fuentes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zetna-fuentes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zetna-fuentes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0297489
- **TMDB ID:** 1426793
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16201697
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetna_Fuentes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16201697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1426793

Director. Born in Bronx, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Wendey Stanzler](https://film.one/person/wendey-stanzler.md), [Adam Bernstein](https://film.one/person/adam-bernstein.md), [Allison Liddi-Brown](https://film.one/person/allison-liddi-brown.md), [Craig Zisk](https://film.one/person/craig-zisk.md), [Jessica Yu](https://film.one/person/jessica-yu.md), [Joanna Kerns](https://film.one/person/joanna-kerns.md), [Joe Lawson](https://film.one/person/joe-lawson.md), [Jonny Gomez](https://film.one/person/jonny-gomez.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as director, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 68 (1), 2010s 77 (3), 2020s 78 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 71 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Comedy 2, Crime 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetna_Fuentes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16201697, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1426793

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*This Is Us*](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md) (76), [*The Great*](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md) (74), [*Grey's Anatomy*](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md) (68)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Deuce*](https://film.one/tv/the-deuce.md) (84)
- **Apple TV:** [*Pluribus*](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) (70)

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

## Fi1m on Zetna Fuentes

> Zetna Fuentes approaches fantasy through the characters who have to live with it. We rate that grounded approach, particularly when she has a pilot’s responsibility for making a fictional world believable from the outset.

The long-take opening of *Cursed* (2020) is a useful place to look at Zetna Fuentes’s priorities. A sustained shot in a fantasy series can become an invitation to inspect the scenery; her emphasis is on the character experiencing it. She directed the pilot and second episode and served as executive producer, helping establish how this Arthurian world would look and feel. The interest lies in making its heightened elements sit within a believable setting, rather than continually announcing the magic.

Much of her career has been spent directing within established programmes, moving from daytime soaps to primetime episodic television. Pilot direction gives her a different responsibility, including on *Bosch: Legacy* (2022) and *Black Cake* (2023), where she also took executive producer roles. Here a director helps decide the habits that later episodes will follow. It is a useful distinction when judging her work: fitting an existing series well and giving a new one its shape are separate achievements.

We recommend *Pluribus* (2025), Vince Gilligan’s science-fiction series, on which she directed episode four. We were unsettled by its compulsory happiness, because Rhea Seehorn gives resistance to it such a stubborn human presence. The premise could easily leave the people serving as examples in a debate; Seehorn keeps a person at the centre of the questions. Fuentes’s preference for finding a character’s point of view in the script makes sense in that company.

The reservation is pace: *Pluribus* sometimes keeps us waiting longer than its ideas warrant. Our review did not single out Fuentes, so we would not assign either that slowness or the programme’s success to her episode. Her pilot work offers a better place to judge choices made before a programme has settled into a routine. Start with *Pluribus* for the firmer recommendation, then try the opening episodes of *Cursed* to see her establishing a series herself.

## Biography

Zetna Fuentes is an American television and theatre director. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, she began her career directing Off-Broadway productions in New York before moving into television.

She received three Daytime Emmy nominations for her work on the directing teams of the soap operas *Guiding Light* and *One Life to Live*. Fuentes has directed episodes of numerous series, including *Grey's Anatomy* (2005–), *Shameless* (2011–), *This Is Us* (2016–), *The Great* (2020–), *Cursed* (2020) and *Pluribus* (2025). She has also served as an executive producer on series such as *Bosch: Legacy* (2022) and *Black Cake* (2023).

Fuentes has received NAACP and Imagen Award nominations for Outstanding Directing.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Pluribus* (2025), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)
- *The Great* (2020), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *The Deuce* (2017), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-deuce.md)
- *This Is Us* (2016), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)
- *Shameless* (2011), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Pluribus* (2025), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)
- *The Agency* (2024), series, Director
- *Before* (2024), series, Director
- *Black Cake* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *The Old Man* (2022), series, Director
- *Bosch: Legacy* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Girl from Plainville* (2022), series, Director
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), series, Director
- *The Nevers* (2021), series, Director
- *Cursed* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Great* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-great.md)
- *Chiefs* (2018), Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Deuce* (2017), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-deuce.md)
- *Snowfall* (2017), series, Director
- *This Is Us* (2016), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)
- *Queen of the South* (2016), series, Director
- *Marvel's Jessica Jones* (2015), series, Director
- *Zoo* (2015), series, Director
- *iZombie* (2015), series, Director
- *Bosch* (2015), series, Director
- *Jane the Virgin* (2014), series, Director
- *How to Get Away with Murder* (2014), series, Director
- *Forever* (2014), series, Director
- *Madam Secretary* (2014), series, Director
- *Star-Crossed* (2014), series, Director
- *Ray Donovan* (2013), series, Director
- *The Fosters* (2013), series, Director
- *Switched at Birth* (2011), series, Director
- *Shameless* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Pretty Little Liars* (2010), series, Director
- *Bobby Cassidy: Counterpuncher* (2010), Associate Producer, Sound Mixer
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)

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