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Trish Adlesic
American director and producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Patricia "Trish" Adlesic[1] is an American documentary film director and producer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Early life
Adlesic was born in Pittsburgh, the youngest of six children of Mary and Joseph Adlesic;[2][3] her mother was a nurse and her father worked in education.[4] She is of Irish and Slovenian descent.[5] She graduated from Shaler Area High School and attended Hunter College, majoring in communications and psychology with a minor in music theory.[2][6]
Career
She worked as a location manager on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she met actress Mariska Hargitay. When Hargitay wanted to make a documentary about the American rape kit backlog, she asked Adlesic to co-direct.[2] The documentary, titled I Am Evidence, was released in 2017.[7] The following year, Adlesic had been visiting her father in Pittsburgh when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred.[8] After the shooting, she moved back to Pittsburgh and spent the next three years directing and co-producing A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.[9] In 2025, she collaborated once again with Mariska Hargitay, producing Hargitay's feature directorial debut film My Mom Jayne, which premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.[10][11]
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Filmography
As director and producer
Other credits
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
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