Dee McLachlan is a film director, producer and writer from Middle Park, Victoria. McLachlan was born Duncan McLachlan in the early 1950s in South Africa. As Duncan, McLachlan directed such films as Scavengers, The Double 0 Kid, Running Wild, Deadly Chase and The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo.

In 1999 McLachlan moved to Australia, where she transitioned gender and changed her name to Dee. Her credits include The Jammed, a film for which she won IF Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Script She also received nominations for Best Editing at the IF Awards, Best Film, Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay at the AFI Awards, and for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay at the FCCA awards She followed up The Jammed with 2012's 10Terrorists.