British film and television director. Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She became the first woman to direct an episode of Star Trek, with the episode “Booby Trap”. She is best known for directing, writing and producing the TV special Diana: A Tribute to the People’s Princess. She and writer/actor Olaf Pooley both contributed to a film version of Bernard Taylor’s The Godsend. Pooley wrote the screenplay for the film while Beaumont directed it.