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Manuel Billeter
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Graduated from NYFA NYC Campus in 1997
Manuel Billeter is a cinematographer known for his work on award-winning shows for HBO, Netflix, and Showtime, including Inventing Anna, Ozark, The Gilded Age, and Marvel’s hit noir drama Jessica Jones.
Billeter’s credits include episodes of: HBO’s And Just Like That, Marvel’s The Punisher; the award-winning dramas The Affair and Orange is the New Black; the dark and stylized CBS vigilante crime-fighting series, Person of Interest (Seasons 1-3, EP: Jonah Nolan, J.J. Abrams), the seminal Dick Wolf show Law & Order (Seasons 18-20); and camera work for films including Lawless (Dir: John Hillcoat, starring Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska) and Tower Heist (starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy).
Previously, Billeter shot the Red Line pilot for CBS and Berlanti Productions and the Run for Your Life pilot for Blumhouse Television and Syfy. Also for Netflix, Billeter shot the critically-praised Luke Cage, starring Mike Colter; and Iron Fist. He made his feature film debut as Director of Photography with Cat Person, a genre-bending thriller directed by Susanna Fogel, starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun, which premiered at Sundance 2023.
Manuel is a member of the Swiss Society of Cinematographers.
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