Chloe Leland

Background

She is also daughter of British film director and writer David Leland.

Career

She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd"s younger sister in David Leland"s directional debut Wish You Were Here in 1987. She later worked for Working Title as a Researcher and as a location scout on the movie Land Girls (1998). Since that time she has produced, directed and shot documentaries and drama for television, including some of the highest-rated series for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.

In 2010 she was once again Emmy-nominated for the critically acclaimed, America - Story of Us (the record-breaking, top rating United States series) on which she worked as Series VFX Creative Director.

She"s held high-level positions with some of the United Kingdom"s top production companies, such as Head of Development for Impossible Pictures and Creative Director for Jane Root"s Nutopia.

Achievements

• She worked as camera operator on multi-award winning feature Concert for George and produced and directed Walking with Monsters for which she won at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Animated Program (Foreign Programming One Hour or More) and a VES as well as being nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts and RTS. Her next series, Fight Foreign Life, received extremely high ratings for BBC1, as well as winning British Academy of Film and Television Arts, RTS and VES awards.