Miranda de Pencier (born August 20, 1968, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress.
[1] She began her career as an actress, most notably playing Josie Pye in the 1985 telemovie Anne of Green Gables and its sequels.
[2] She also had a recurring role on Street Legal in the 1989–90 season as Jennifer Winston, a college student who was dating Chuck Tchobanian,[3] and appeared in the film The Myth of the Male Orgasm and on stage in Canadian productions of Les Misérables and Aspects of Love.
[7] Her subsequent credits as a producer have included the films Pu-239, Adam and Beginners,[8] the television series Wild Roses[9] and the new 2017 Anne of Green Gables adaptation Anne with an E.[10] The short film Throat Song was her debut as a director.
In October, de Pencier won the Directors Guild of Canada award for Best Direction in a Feature Film for The Grizzlies.