Jeffrey W. Woolnough is a television and movie director, with an active career beginning in the late 1980s. Woolnough has directed multiple episodes of a variety of highly rated series, including: Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Taken, The Outer Limits (Modern Series), Dark Angel, NCIS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Bones, Battlestar Galactica (2004 series), African Skies, Las Vegas, Supernatural, Being Erica and Dead Like Me.

His non-episodic television work has included the four hour miniseries, Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, and the made-for-TV Céline Dion biopic, Céline.

Woolnough also directed two direct-to-video sequels to Universal Soldier, entitled Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms' and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business.