Tessa Blake

Biography

Tessa Blake (born December 12, 1969) is an American television director and writer.

Career Overview

Tessa Blake has 31 screen credits in a career dating back to 1999. Signature works include If I Tell You, Election Night, Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

female

Known Credits

31

Birth Date

1969-12-12 00:00:00

Birth Place

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Known For

• 

  If I Tell You
• 

  Election Night
• Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

Frequent Collaborators

• Etienne Kellici (1 collaborations)
• Allison Miller (1 collaborations)
• Bill Heck (1 collaborations)
• Christopher Jackson (1 collaborations)
• Carol Kane (1 collaborations)
• Carmela Zumbado (1 collaborations)
• Layne Kaufenberg (1 collaborations)
• Kennedi Lynn Butler (1 collaborations)
• McKenzie Hays (1 collaborations)
• Thomas Walter Blake Jr. (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (28 credits)

  • If I Tell You

    director

    directing
    2026
  • 9-1-1: Nashville

    - Lost Children (2025) ... director directing
    2025
  • Matlock

    - Tail Lights (2026) ... director directing

    - Prior Bad Acts (2025) ... director directing

    - Another Matlock (2025) ... director directing

    - Belly of the Beast (2024) ... director directing
    2024
  • Doctor Odyssey

    - Halloween Week (2024) ... director directing
    2024
  • Beacon 23

    - Adamantine (2023) ... director directing
    2023
  • Quantum Leap

    - Paging Dr. Song (2023) ... director directing
    2022
  • The Rookie: Feds

    - Flashback (2022) ... director directing
    2022
  • Walker

    - A Matter of Miles (2022) ... director directing
    2021
  • American Horror Stories

    - Lake (2022) ... director directing
    2021
  • NCIS: Hawaiʻi

    - Spies (2) (2022) ... director directing
    2021
  • 4400

    - Harlem's Renaissance Man (2021) ... director directing
    2021
  • 9-1-1: Lone Star

    - Riddle of the Sphynx (2022) ... director directing
    2020
  • 9-1-1

    - Fighting Back (2026) ... director directing

    - Disconnected (2025) ... director directing
    2018
  • The Rookie

    - Out of Pocket (2025) ... director directing
    2018
  • Station 19

    - The Little Things You Do Together (2022) ... director directing

    - Ice Ice Baby (2020) ... director directing

    - For Whom the Bell Tolls (2019) ... director directing

    - Home to Hold Onto (2018) ... director directing
    2018
  • A Million Little Things

    - trust me (2021) ... director directing

    - the price of admission (2021) ... director directing

    - miles apart (2021) ... director directing

    - the talk (2020) ... director directing

    - writings on the wall (2020) ... director directing
    2018
  • Charmed

    - The Truth about Kat and Dogs (2019) ... director directing
    2018
  • Riverdale

    - Chapter Eighty-Seven: Strange Bedfellows (2021) ... director directing
    2017
  • Bull

    - Look Back in Anger (2020) ... director directing

    - Bounty (2019) ... director directing
    2016
  • MacGyver

    - Bozer + Booze + Back to School (2018) ... director directing
    2016
  • Election Night

    director

    directing
    2015
  • iZombie

    - The Fresh Princess (2019) ... director directing

    - My Really Fair Lady (2018) ... director directing

    - Spanking the Zombie (2017) ... director directing
    2015
  • NCIS: New Orleans

    - The Root of All Evil (2020) ... director directing

    - Conspiracy Theories (2019) ... director directing

    - Risk Assessment (2018) ... director directing

    - Empathy (2018) ... director directing
    2014
  • The Blacklist

    - Nyle Hatcher (2020) ... director directing
    2013
  • American Horror Story

    - Inside (2021) ... director directing
    2011
  • Once Upon a Time

    - Flower Child (2018) ... director directing
    2011
  • Veronica Mars

    - Entering a World of Pain (2019) ... director directing
    2004
  • Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

    director

    directing
    1999

• writing (2 credits)

  • If I Tell You

    writer

    writing
    2026
  • Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

    writer

    writing
    1999

• actors (1 credits)

  • Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1999