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Julia "Jules" Kovisars (born 6 January 1969; age 55) is an assistant director who worked as DGA Trainee on the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episodes "Timescape" and "Descent".

She also worked as DGA Trainee on Hotel Room (1993) and Baywatch (1993-1994), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994, with assistant director Rosemary Cremona), and The Scout (1994). Since then she worked as second assistant and second second assistant director on The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994-1995), Pearl (1996, starring Malcolm McDowell), and Fame L.A. (1997, with Andy Milder and Matt Winston), the television drama And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story (1999), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), The Green Mile (1999), and Coyote Ugly (2000).

In 2001 she won a Directors Guild of America Award in the category Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television for her work as second assistant director on The Beach Boys: An American Family, shared with Yudi Bennett.

Further credits as assistant director include Watching Ellie (2002), Men in Black 2 (2002), The Hot Chick (2002), Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004), Her Minor Thing (2005, with John Tagamolila), the drama The Ultimate Gift (2006), and Red Riding Hood (2007).

Kovisars worked as unit production manager on the television drama Pryor Offenses (2004), Killer Pad (2008), Finding Amanda (2008), House Broken (2010), The Slammin' Salmon (2009), Earth to Echo (2014), the television drama Paradise Pictures (2015), The Fosters (2013-2016), and the television movie The Infamous (2016). She also worked as production executive on The Double (2011).

As director of production for truTV, she later worked on At Home with Amy Sedaris (2017-2019), I'm Sorry (2017-2019), Episodes (2017), and Tacoma FD (2019).

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