Chloë Leland is a daughter of British film director David Leland. She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd's younger sister in David Leland's directional debut Wish You Were Here in 1987. She later worked as location scout on the movie Land Girls (1998). Since that time she has produced, directed and shot documentaries for television, including some of the highest-rated series for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. She worked as camera operator on multi-award winning feature Concert for George and produced and directed Walking with Monsters for which she won at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) and was nominated for a BAFTA. Her next series, Fight For Life, received extremely high ratings for BBC1, as well as winning BAFTA, RTS and VES awards. In 2010 she is once again Emmy nominated for the critically acclaimed, America - Story of Us (the record-breaking, top rating US series) on which she worked as Series VFX Creative Director. After leaving her job as Head of Development for Impossible Pictures, she went on to work as Creative Executive for Jane Root's Nutopia...whilst secretly yearning to direct Dr Who and Sci-Fi.