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Cherie NowlanDirector | Executive Producer

Cherie Nowlan is an award winning director of television and film with extensive credits in Australia and the USA. She is Executive Producer and Director of the highly anticipated limited series, THE SURVIVORS (2025), based on best-selling author Jane Harper’s novel and produced by Tony Ayres Productions for Netflix.

Cherie has directed some of Netflix’s most watched television series including SUITS (2017), YOU (2019), OUTER BANKS (2020). and CLICKBAIT (2021), as well as Amazon’s SNEAKY PETE (2018) and THE WILDS (2020), which was nominated for a GLADD award, and Hulu’s REPRISAL (2019) and HELSTROM (2020) for Marvel. She has also directed two US pilots and her many broadcast credits include GREY’S ANATOMY (2013), RIVERDALE (2018), THE GOOD DOCTOR (2018), ANIMAL KINGDOM (2019), HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (2019), SEAL TEAM (2022), LAW & ORDER: ORGANISED CRIME (2022), CHICAGO MED (2025). and THE IRRATIONAL (2025). Her US television comedy credits include SPEECHLESS (2017), CLAWS (2018) and YOUNG ROCK (2022). Cherie’s Australian credits include the multi award-winning limited series, MARKING TIME (2003), for which she won an AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Director.

Her 2007 film, CLUBLAND (aka INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS), starring Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for 11 AFI awards including Best Director and Best Actress. Cherie’s debut feature, THANK GOD HE MET LIZZIE (1997), starred Cate Blanchett, Frances O’Connor and Richard Roxburgh, was nominated for five AFI Awards. Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress.

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