Julie Cypher (born August 24, 1964) is an American film director and gay rights advocate.

Two years later, she met Melissa Etheridge while assisting on the music video for the single "Bring Me Some Water".

[2] Cypher directed the 1995 film Teresa's Tattoo, starring Phillips, C. Thomas Howell, and Kiefer Sutherland.

She was a gay rights advocate, and became notable as a partner in one of the first publicly lesbian celebrity couples.

Although initially reluctant to discuss it, the couple eventually revealed that the biological father of both children was musician David Crosby.