Jeff Woolnough is a Canadian/USA film and television director. His career began in the early 1990s and has won numerous awards directing multiple episodes of a variety of television series. His most prolific work has been with The Expanse and Vikings, for which he directed ten episodes of each.

He has been a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Direction in a Drama Series for his work on Vikings, with nods at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. He was also a Gemini Award nominee for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story.

Directing credits

YearTitleEpisode(s)Notes
1991Dracula: The Series"The Decline of the Romanian Vampire", "My Girlfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble"
1991Street Justice
1992CatwalkNo Returns
1992-1993African SkiesWildlife (1992) Safety Last (1993) The Foul (1993) Smoke (1993) Aid and Comfort (1993)
1993Kung Fu: The Legend ContinuesShaman
1993-1994CobraNowhere to Run (1993) Haunted Lives (1994)
1994-1995HawkeyeThe Quest (1994) Hester (1995)
1994–1996North of 60The Cure (1994) Revolving Door (1995) Suspicious Minds (1996)
1995-1997RenegadeLiar's Poker (1995) Paradise Lost (1996) No Balls and Two Strikes (1996) Mr. Success (1996) Top Ten with a Bullet (1997)
1994-1997Silk StalkingsWhere There's a Will... (1994) The Lonely Hunter (1995) The Last Kiss Goodnight (1995) Sudden Death (1996) Pumped Up (1997)
1997Stargate SG-1Emancipation
1997Once a ThiefMac Daddy
1997Sleepwalkers
1997Earth: Final ConflictAvatar Float Like a Butterfly
1998Universal Soldier II: Brothers in ArmsTV movie
1998Pensacola: Wings of GoldBoom
1998Universal Soldier III: Unfinished BusinessTV movie
1998Lost SoulsTV movie
1999Power PlayPurple Hazing
1997-1999SlidersMurder Most Foul (1997) The Other Slide of Darkness (1997) The Java Jive (1999)
1997-2000The Outer LimitsDead Man's Switch (1997) Sarcophagus (1998) The Other Side (1999) The Human Operators (1999) The Gun (2000) The Beholder (2000)
2000The Man Who Used to Be MeTV movie
2000FreedomAssassins
2000The Fearing MindCall of the Wild
2001The Invisible ManMoney for Nothing: Part 2
2000-2001Soul FoodThe Watermelon Theory (2000) Come Back for the Comeback (2001)
2001Strange Frequency
2001-2002Dark AngelThe Kidz Are Aiight (2001) I and I Am a Camera (2001) Designate This (2001) Radar Love (2001) Medium Is the Message (2001) Hello, Goodbye (2002)
2002UC: UndercoverTeddy C
2002Strange Frequency 2TV movie
2002The AgencyFrench Kiss
2002SmallvilleRed
2002Birds of PreySins of the Mother
2002Taken a.k.a. "Steven Spielverg Presents Taken"Dropping the DishesTV Mini Series
2003Black SashPrime Suspect
2003Tru CallingPast Tense
2004Dead Like MeThe Ledger
2004-2005NCISMy Other Left Foot (2004) Missing (2004) Terminal Leave (2004) Caught on Tape (2005) Conspiracy Theory (2005)
2005Beach GirlsTV Mini Series
2005Surface
2005-2006Battlestar GalacticaThe Hand of God (2005) Home: Part 2 (2005) Downloaded (2006)
2004-2006Las VegasGames People Pay (2004) Bold, Beautiful & Blue (2005) Coyote Ugly (2006) Cash Springs Eternal (2006)
2006EurekaDr. Nobel (2006) H.O.U.S.E. Rules (2006)
2006The House Next DoorTV movie
2007CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationBig Shots
2007NobodyTV movie
2007-2010BonesThe Killer in the Concrete (2007) Intern in the Incinerator (2007) The Santa in the Slush (2007) The Finger in the Nest (2008) Mayhem on a Cross (2009) The Foot in the Foreclosure (2009) The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle (2010)
2008CélineTV movie
2008CrusoeSacrifice High Water
2009Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesThe Good Wound Ourselves Alone
2009Defying GravityFear
2009-2010Being EricaTil Death (2009) Everything She Wants (2009) Being Adam (2010) Erica, Interrupted (2010)
2010Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry StoryPart 1 Part 2TV Mini Series
2010SupernaturalDark Side of the Moon
2010The Vampire DiariesKill or Be Killed
2011VUneasy Lies the Head
2012Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story IINight One Night 2TV Mini Series
2012CopperSurviving Death Husbands and Fathers La Tempête Arsenic and Old Cake
2013JackTV movie
2013–2014PerceptionBlindness (2013) Toxic (2013) Eternity (2014) Inconceivable (2014)
2013-2015Saving HopeAll Things Must Pass (2013) Vamonos (2013) Narrow Margin (2015)
2014Rookie BlueExit Strategy
2014-2018VikingsAnswers in Blood (2014) Unforgiven (2014) Warrior's Fate (2015) Scarred (2015) Death All 'Round (2016) The Last Ship (2016) The Great Army (2017) Revenge (2017) Full Moon (2018) The Joke (2018)
2015BackstromBogeyman
2015Heroes RebornThe Needs of the Many The Lion's DenTV Mini Series
2015-2021The ExpanseRemember the Cant (2015) CQB (2015) Static (2017) Godspeed (2017) Triple Point (2018) Immolation (2018) Oppressor (2019) Displacement (2019) Down and Out (2020) Tribes (2021)
2016IncorporatedDownsizing
2018Burden of TruthWake Up Call The Ties That Bind
2018-2023RiverdaleChapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes (2018) Chapter Ninety-Eight: Mr-Cypher (2021) Chapter One Hundred and Seven: In the Fog (2022) Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Two: Tales in a Jugular Vein (2023)
2018–2019Cloak & DaggerBack Breaker (2018) White Lines (2019)
2018–2020The Chilling Adventures of SabrinaChapter Eleven: A Midwinter's Tale (2018) Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Eldritch Dark (2020)
2019RunawaysDevil's Torture Chamber
pre-productionGold on Ice

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