Jessica Yu
- Directing
- February 14, 1966 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- 56 Days · Director
- A Very Jonas Christmas Movie · Director
- Long Bright River · Director
- Quiz Lady · Director
- Citadel · Director
- The Recruit · Director
- Only Murders in the Building · Director
- Walker · Director
- Ratched · Director
- Hollywood · Director
- The Morning Show · Director
- Stumptown · Director
- Bluff City Law · Executive producer, Director
- Fosse/Verdon · Director
- The Rookie · Director
- Sorry for Your Loss · Director
- Ten Days in the Valley · Director
- Maria Bamford: Old Baby · Director
- 13 Reasons Why · Director, Consulting Producer
- Pure Genius · Director
- This Is Us · Director
- Billions · Director
- Foreveryone.net · Director
- American Crime · Director
- The Affair · Director
- Misconception · Director, Producer
- Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas · Director
- Meet Mr Toilet · Director
- American Horror Story · Director
- Last Call at the Oasis · Director
- Castle · Director
- Capturing Reality · Self
- Ping Pong Playa · Director, Writer
- In Treatment · Director
- Protagonist · Director, Writer
- Grey's Anatomy · Director
- In the Realms of the Unreal · Director, Writer
- The Lyon's Den · Director
- Mister Sterling · Director
- American Dreams · Director
- The West Wing · Director
- The Living Museum · Director
- Men of Reenaction · Director
- Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien · Director, Editing
- Better Late · Director, Writer
- ER · Director
- The Jon Stewart Show · Self
- Sour Death Balls · Director
- The Oscars · Self
- The Conductor · Director
- Postcards from Italy · Director