Jessica Yu

DirectingBorn 1966-02-14 (59)New York City, New York, USA

Jessica Yu (Chinese: 虞琳敏; pinyin: Yú Línmǐn) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1996 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996). Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based on Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect. Her more recent films have been Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the Fosse/Verdon episode "Glory". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Yu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jessica Yu

Known For

The Oscars

Capturing Reality

Filmography

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

Long Bright River

Quiz Lady

Citadel

The Recruit

Only Murders in the Building

Walker

Ratched

Hollywood

The Morning Show

Stumptown

Bluff City Law

Fosse/Verdon

The Rookie

Sorry For Your Loss

Ten Days in the Valley

Maria Bamford: Old Baby

13 Reasons Why

Pure Genius

This Is Us

Billions

Foreveryone.net

American Crime

Misconception

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

Meet Mr Toilet

American Horror Story

Last Call at the Oasis

Castle

Capturing Reality

Ping Pong Playa

In Treatment

Protagonist

Grey's Anatomy

In the Realms of the Unreal

The Lyon's Den

Mister Sterling

American Dreams

The West Wing

The Living Museum

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

Better Late

ER

The Oscars