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Television episodes directed by a cast member from the same TV series.

Episodes

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Director TV series Episodes Ref.
Alison Brie GLOW "Hollywood Homecoming" [1]
America Ferrera Superstore "Mateo's Last Day", "Video Game Release", "Sandra's Fight", "Lady Boss" [2]
Amy Poehler Parks and Recreation "The Debate", "Article Two", "Gryzzlbox" [3]
Ben Feldman Superstore "Lottery", "Carol's Back" [2]
Bryan Cranston Breaking Bad "Seven Thirty-Seven", "No Más", "Blood Money" [4][2][5][6][7][3]
Malcolm in the Middle "Stereo Store", "Vegas", "Dirty Magazine", "Experiment", "Buseys Run Away", "Billboard", "Malcolm Defends Reese" [4][2][5][7]
Your Honor "Part Ten" [5][8]
Caity Lotz Legends of Tomorrow "Mortal Khanbat", "The Satanist's Apprentice" [2][6]
Camrus Johnson Batwoman "Broken Toys" [3]
Chandra Wilson Grey's Anatomy "Give Peace a Chance", "Push", "Almost Grown", "White Wedding", "Take the Lead", "Moment of Truth", "Second Opinion", "Transplant Wasteland", "I Want You with Me", "Do You Know?", "The Bed's Too Big Without You", "With or Without You", "My Next Life", "I Wear the Face", "Both Sides Now", "In the Air Tonight", "Go Big or Go Home", "Games People Play", "Everyday Angel", "We Didn't Start the Fire", "Breathe Again", "Hotter Than Hell", "Stronger Than Hate", "Cowgirls Don't Cry" [4][5][6][7]
Charles Michael Davis The Originals "High Water and a Devil's Daughter", "What, Will, I, Have, Left" [4][2][6]
Chris Sullivan This Is Us "Heart and Soul" [3]
Clark Gregg Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "Fun & Games", "Missing Pieces" [9][10]
Cynthia Nixon And Just Like That... "Diwali", "Trick or Treat", "Bomb Cyclone" [3]
Danielle Panabaker The Flash "Godspeed", "License to Elongate", "Rayo de Luz", "Keep It Dark", "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To" [11]
David Duchovny The X-Files "The Unnatural", "Hollywood A.D.", "William" [6]
David Ramsey Arrow "Past Sins", "Reset" [2]
David Schwimmer Friends "The One on the Last Night", "The One with Rachel's Assistant", "The One with Ross's Library Book", "The One with All the Candy", "The One with the Truth About London", "The One with the Red Sweater", "The One with the Stripper", "The One Where Joey Dates Rachel", "The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner", "The One with the Birth Mother" [4][2][5][12][6][7][3]
Elizabeth Gillies Dynasty "A Good Marriage in Every Sense", "But a Drug Scandal?" [3]
Elizabeth Henstridge Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "As I Have Always Been" [5][13]
Ellen Pompeo Grey's Anatomy "Be Still, My Soul", "Old Scars, Future Hearts" [4][2][6][3]
Emmy Rossum Shameless "I Am a Storm", "Frank's Northern Southern Express" [3]
Freddie Highmore The Good Doctor "Risk and Reward", "Autopsy", "Decrypt" [2][6]
Giacomo Gianniotti Grey's Anatomy "Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right" [3]
Heather Hemmens Roswell, New Mexico "Goodnight Elizabeth", "Follow You Down" [3]
Hugh Laurie House "Lockdown", "The C-Word" [4][6][7]
Ian Somerhalder The Vampire Diaries "The Downward Spiral", "Days of Future Past", "We Have History Together" [2][12][6][3]
Jake Johnson New Girl "Bob & Carol & Nick & Schmidt" [2]
James Lafferty One Tree Hill "Show Me How to Live", "I and Love and You", "Nobody Taught Us to Quit", "Catastrophe and the Cure" [2][12][6]
Jason Bateman Arrested Development "Afternoon Delight " [5]
The Hogan Family "Secretarial Poole", "Educating Rita", "It Happened One Night... or Did It?" [5]
The Outsider "Fish in a Barrel", "Roanoke" [14]
Ozark "Sugarwood", "Blue Cat", "Coffee, Black", "The Toll", "Reparations", "The Precious Blood of Jesus", "Wartime", "Civil Union", "A Hard Way to Go" [5][15]
Jason George Station 19 "Death and the Maiden", "Pick Up the Pieces" [3]
Jennifer Garner Alias "In Dreams..." [3]
Jesse Lee Soffer Chicago P.D. "Deadlocked" [3]
Josh Dallas Manifest "Romeo" [3]
Julie Bowen Modern Family "Red Alert", "Tree's a Crowd" [4][2][12][6]
Justin Hartley This Is Us "A Hell of a Week: Part Three" [2][6]
Kelsey Grammer Frasier "Moon Dance", "Daphne Hates Sherry", "First Date", "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz", "Three Valentines", "Momma Mia", "The Apparent Trap", "RDWRER", "Whine Club", "Taking Liberties", "Hungry Heart", "Hooping Cranes", "A Passing Fancy", "A Day in May", "Cranes Go Caribbean", "Don Juan in Hell: Part 1", "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2", "The First Temptation of Daphne", "200th Special Outtakes", "Sharing Kirby", "Three Blind Dates", "Deathtrap", "The Ring Cycle", "Enemy at the Gate", "Rooms with a View", "The Harassed", "Trophy Girlfriend", "Farewell, Nervosa", "Fathers and Sons", "A New Position for Roz", "A Man, a Plan and a Gal: Julia", "The Babysitter", "Maris Returns", "SeaBee Jeebies", "Caught in the Act", "Coots and Ladders", "Detour", "Analyzing the Laughter" [7]
Frasier "Trivial Pursuits"
Kevin McKidd Grey's Anatomy "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)", "Poker Face", "Let the Bad Times Roll", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Do You Believe in Magic?", "Two Against One", "I'm Winning", "I Must Have Lost it on the Wind", "Time Stops", "Sledgehammer", "Odd Man Out", "Mama Tried", "Catastrophe and the Cure", "Who Is He", "'Til I Hear It From You", "True Colors", "Get Off on the Pain", "Out of Nowhere", "One Day Like This", "Bad Reputation", "Broken Together", "Blowin' in the Wind", "I Walk the Line", "Drawn to the Blood", "Back in the Saddle", "Let's All Go to the Bar", "Give a Little Bit", "My Happy Ending", "In My Life", "Tradition", "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", "Some Kind of Tomorrow", "Legacy", "Put It to the Test", "Out for Blood", "Let's Talk About Sex", "Love Don't Cost a Thing", "Pick Yourself Up", "Wedding Bell Blues" [2][6]
Seattle Grace: Message of Hope "No Comment", "Take One", "Award-Winning", "The Sizzle" [2]
Kristen Bell The Good Place "The Funeral to End All Funerals" [2]
Lamorne Morris New Girl "Godparents" [4][2][6]
Lana Parrilla Once Upon a Time "Chosen" [2]
Laura Innes ER "Power", "Be Still My Heart", "Sailing Away", "If I Should Fall from Grace", "A Hopeless Wound", "NICU", "Nobody's Baby", "The Human Shield", "Strange Bedfellows", "Tell Me No Secrets...", "Sea Change", "Coming Home" [5]
Lucy Liu Elementary "Paint It Black", "The Female of the Species", "Turn It Upside Down", "Moving Targets", "The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu", "The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz", "Unfriended" [5]
Why Women Kill "Marriages Don't Break Up on Account of Murder – It's Just a Symptom That Something Else Is Wrong" [5]
Mädchen Amick Riverdale "Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey" [2][6]
Mandy Moore This Is Us "The Hill" [3][15]
Manish Dayal The Resident "Hell in a Handbasket", "For Better or Worse" [3]
Matthew Gray Gubler Criminal Minds "Mosley Lane", "Lauren", "Heathridge Manor", "The Lesson", "Alchemy", "Gatekeeper", "Blood Relations", "Mr. Scratch", "A Beautiful Disaster", "Elliott's Pond", "The Capilanos", "The Tall Man" [2][5][6]
Matthew Morrison Glee "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" [2]
Melissa Fumero Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Return of the King" [4][2][12][6][3]
Michael Trevino Roswell, New Mexico "Wild Wild West" [3]
Milo Ventimiglia This Is Us "Storybook Love", "Jerry 2.0" [4][2][5][3][15]
Mindy Kaling The Office "Body Language", "Michael's Last Dundies" [4][6][3][16]
Neil Patrick Harris How I Met Your Mother "Jenkins" [4][12][6][7][3]
Nick Offerman Parks and Recreation "Correspondents' Lunch", "Flu Season 2" [2]
Patricia Arquette Medium "A Person of Interest", "The First Bite Is the Deepest" [3]
Patrick Stewart Star Trek: The Next Generation "In Theory", "Hero Worship", "A Fistful of Datas", "Phantasms", "Preemptive Strike" [7]
Paul Wesley The Vampire Diaries "Resident Evil", "Woke Up with a Monster", "Things We Lost in the Fire", "Requiem for a Dream", "Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell" [2][6][3]
Peter Krause Parenthood "Politics", "Small Victories", "A Potpourri of Freaks" [6]
Randall Park Fresh Off the Boat "Commencement" [2]
Richard Schiff The West Wing "Talking Points", "A Good Day" [4][6]
Shannen Doherty Charmed "Be Careful What You Witch For", "The Good, the Bad and the Cursed", "All Hell Breaks" [6][7]
Sophia Bush One Tree Hill "Now You Lift Your Eyes to the Sun", "Not Afraid", "Anyone Who Had a Heart" [3]
Stephanie Beatriz Brooklyn Nine-Nine "He Said, She Said" [2][5][12][6]
Troian Bellisario Pretty Little Liars "In the Eye Abides the Heart" [4][2][12][6]
Tyler Posey Teen Wolf "After Images" [2]
Zach Braff Scrubs "My Last Chance", "My Best Laid Plans", "My Way Home", "My No Good Reason", "My Growing Pains", "My Princess", "My Chief Concern" [6][7]
Adam Scott Parks and Recreation "Farmers Market" [17]
B. J. Novak The Office "Scott's Tots", "The Seminar", "The List", "Trivia", "Free Family Portrait Studio" [16]
B. J. Novak Blackmail "Oscar", "Andy", "Kelly", "Pay Day"
Clark Johnson The Wire "-30-"
Dominic West The Wire "Took"
Ed Helms The Office "Christmas Wishes", "Welcome Party" [16]
Giancarlo Esposito Better Call Saul "Axe and Grind" [15]
John Slattery Mad Men "The Rejected", "Blowing Smoke", "Signal 30", "Man with a Plan", "A Tale of Two Cities" [18]
John Krasinski The Office "Sabre", "Lotto", "The Boat" [16]
Jon Hamm Mad Men "Tea Leaves", "Collaborators" [19]
Krysten Ritter Jessica Jones "A.K.A. You're Welcome"
Mindy Kaling The 3rd Floor "Moving On", "Lights. Camera. Action!", "The Final Product"
Mindy Kaling The Girl Next Door "The Story of Subtle Sexuality", "The Girl Next Door"
Mindy Kaling Subtle Sexuality "Creative Differences", "The Replacement", "The Music Video"
Paul Lieberstein The Office "Money", "Two Weeks", "Gossip", "Whistleblower", "Sex Ed", "Training Day", "The Farm" [16]
Rainn Wilson The Office "The Cover-Up", "Classy Christmas", "Get the Girl" [16]
Rhea Seehorn Better Call Saul "Hit and Run" [15]
Steve Buscemi The Sopranos "In Camelot"
Steve Carell The Office "Broke", "Secretary's Day", "Garage Sale" [16]
Tom Cavanagh The Flash "The Once and Future Flash", "Elongated Journey Into Night", "What's Past Is Prologue" [20]
Zooey Deschanel New Girl "House Hunt" [21]

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References

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