Biography
Tina Hirsch, also credited as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch and Bettina Kugel, is an American film and television editor. She began working in the late 1960s as an assistant editor on Woodstock (1970) and Hi, Mom! (1970). She went on to edit features for New World Pictures, including Death Race 2000 (1975), and later major studio films such as Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Gremlins (1984), Explorers (1985) and Dante's Peak (1997).
Hirsch edited 16 episodes of the television series The West Wing (1999–2001) and received a Primetime Emmy nomination and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for her work. She earned a second Emmy nomination for the miniseries Back When We Were Grownups (2004). She has served as an adjunct professor of editing at the University of Southern California and was the first woman elected president of the American Cinema Editors.
