Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent.
She received a Golden Globe award in 2015 for her work as a director and producer in the television series Transparent.She is best known for her films Chutney Popcorn (1999) and Cosmopolitan (2003), and for being a consulting producer on, and directing three episodes of the first season of the television series Transparent.
Ganatra graduated from the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts, where other filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee had studied.