Maiken Baird

Maiken Baird is a Danish-American documentary film director and producer.

Baird (along with co-director Michelle Major) directed the documentary film Venus and Serena.^[1] More recently, she directed and produced Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich with RadicalMedia for Netflix. Baird was an Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning film Icarus and is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, first producing Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer in 2010; later collaborations include Totally Under Control, "Divide and Conquer: The Rise and Fall of Roger Ailes", and BAFTA-nominated City of Ghosts. Recent Executive Producer roles also include Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab; and "Tantura", which opened Sundance 2022.^[2]