
Randa Haines
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 20, 1945
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Randa Haines (born February 20, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a film and television director and producer. She is perhaps most famous for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as best actress. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989, she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for that film and was nominated both for the DGA Award and an Emmy Award in 1984 for the television movie Something About Amelia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randa Haines, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore 2025
as Self

The Ron Clark Story 2006
Director

Los Zafiros: Music from the Edge of Time 2003
Executive Producer

Antwone Fisher 2002
Producer

The Outsider 2002
Director, Executive Producer

Dance with Me 1998
Director, Producer

A Family Thing 1996
Producer

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993
Director

The Doctor 1991
Director

Calling the Shots 1988
as Self

Children of a Lesser God 1986
Director

Something About Amelia 1984
Director

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 1980
Director

The Displaced Person 1977
Script Supervisor
- The Stoolie
The Stoolie 1972
Script Supervisor

Let's Scare Jessica to Death 1971
Continuity

Joe 1970
Script Supervisor
Credits from TMDB.