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Double Emmy Nominee Salli Richardson-Whitfield Makes History In Drama Directing, Talks ‘Winning Time’ Cancellation & ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 3
Prolific TV director Salli Richardson-Whitfield became the first Black woman to land an Emmy drama directing nomination, for HBO's Winning Time.
This marks the first Emmy nomination for the veteran actress-turned-director, who last week also earned her second, sharing the Outstanding Drama Series nom for HBO’s The Gilded Age in her role as executive producer. In an interview with Deadline, Richardson-Whitfield spoke about the key role Ava DuVernay played (twice) in her taking on a new career as a director in her 40s, the challenges she has faced as a woman in a male-dominated drama-directing field, and her relationship with HBO where she has been under a string of overall deals. Richardson-Whitfield’s husband, actor Dondre Whitfield, starred in DuVernay’s series, which employed all-female directors throughout its seven-season run on OWN, giving a number of aspiring helmers their start in television.
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