Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films
Monster (2003),
Wonder Woman (2017), and
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). For the film
Monster, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award of the American Film Institute (AFI). For the pilot episode of the series
The Killing (2011), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and the Directors Guild of America award for Best Directing in a Drama Series. In 2017, she occupied the seventh place for
Time's Person of the Year.