Todd Haynes

ProducerDirectorActorWriterCrew Jan 2 (age 65) Los Angeles, California, USA 1978–2025 (47 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles. Haynes first gained public attention with his controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which chronicles singer Karen Carpenter's life and death, using Barbie dolls as actors. Superstar became a cult classic. Haynes's feature dire…

Known For

Film

Carol

Director

Film

Still Alice

Thanks

Film

Dark Waters

Director

Film

May December

Director

Film

Far from Heaven

Director

Film

Velvet Goldmine

Director

Film

I'm Not There

Director

Film

Safe

Director

Filmography

Acting (20)

Movies (17)

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

2023

as Self

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

2022

as Self

8.0

Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

as Self

At the Video Store

as Self

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

as Self

Great Directors

as Self

Notes on the Death of Kodachrome

2006

as Self

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

2006

as Self

5.4

Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram

2006

as Self

Maternal Overdrive

2006

as Self

Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir

2006

as Interviewee

At Sundance

as Self

Swoon

as Phrenology Head

He Was Once

as Randy

Natural History

as Child

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

as Todd Donovan

7.0

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

1985

1.0

Television (3)

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

2023

as Self

4.0

Marcians

2017

as Self - Interviewee

SexTV

1998

2.0

Crew (67)

Movies (61)

Earthlings

2025

Executive Producer

May December

2023

Director

6.6

Image Book

2023

Director

The Velvet Underground

2021

Director

6.8

The Velvet Underground

2021

Producer

6.8

The Velvet Underground

2021

Writer

6.8

Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020

Thanks

Dark Waters

Director

Earthquake Bird

Thanks

Wonderstruck

Director

Certain Women

Executive Producer

Carol

Director

Still Alice

Thanks

Night Moves

Executive Producer

Six by Sondheim

Director

Buoy

Executive Producer

Meek's Cutoff

Executive Producer

Wendy and Lucy

Executive Producer

I'm Not There

Director

I'm Not There

Screenplay

I'm Not There

Story

Old Joy

Executive Producer

Quinceañera

Executive Producer

Far from Heaven

Director

Far from Heaven

Writer

Madame Satã

Thanks

Velvet Goldmine

Director

Velvet Goldmine

Screenplay

Velvet Goldmine

Story

Office Killer

Co-Writer

Safe

Director

Safe

Writer

Totally F***ed Up

Thanks

Dottie Gets Spanked

Director

Dottie Gets Spanked

Writer

Poison

Director

Poison

Editor

Poison

Writer

Goo

Director

Anemone Me

Producer

He Was Once

Producer

He Was Once

Production Manager

Natural History

Producer

La Divina

1989

Assistant Director

La Divina

1989

Co-Producer

Muddy Hands

1988

Producer

Cause and Effect

1988

Assistant Director

Cause and Effect

1988

Producer

American Lunch

1988

Producer

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

Director

7.0

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

Editor

7.0

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

Producer

7.0

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

Screenplay

7.0

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

1985

Director

1.0

Tommy's

1985

Producer

A Man in Your Room

1984

Producer

The Suicide

Director

The Suicide

Producer

The Suicide

Screenplay

De Noche

Director

De Noche

Writer

Television (6)

Mildred Pierce

Director

Mildred Pierce

Executive Producer

Mildred Pierce

Teleplay

Enlightened

Director

Trust

Director

Trust

Executive Producer