Episodes Broadcast: 2011

New York City native Gwyneth Horder-Payton was born into a family which had been part of the Hollywood firmament since the days of her British grandfather, Victor McLaglen, a two-time Academy Award winner for his acting. Horder-Payton aimed to emulate her uncle, director Andrew V McLaglen, and she began her career in the mid-Eighties as an assistant director on movies like The Doors, Hellraiser: Bloodline and Homeward Bound II: Lost In San Francisco. By the late Nineties, she had begun to concentrate on television, earning credits on shows including The Magnificent Seven, Grey's Anatomy and The Shield. Horder-Payton's first opportunity to direct came on the latter in 2006, and she was soon working in this capacity on such programmes as Criminal Minds and Sons Of Anarchy.

In 2011, Horder-Payton directed two episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, which the BBC was co-producing with Starz, an American network. Amongst her other credits during the 2010s were Once Upon A Time, American Horror Story and 9-1-1, while she was both a director and a co-executive producer on the political drama Tyrant. During the Twenties, Horder-Payton likewise tackled directing and production duties on Big Sky.