Jessica Yu
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1966 (age 60)
- Birthplace
- 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
The Conductor
Movie · Director
Postcards from Italy
TV · Director · 1 ep
56 Days
TV · Director · 2 eps
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Movie · Director
Long Bright River
TV · Director · 1 ep
Quiz Lady
Movie · Director
Citadel
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Recruit
TV · Director · 1 ep
Walker
TV · Director · 1 ep
Only Murders in the Building
TV · Director · 4 eps
Hollywood
TV · Director · 1 ep
Ratched
TV · Director · 1 ep
Stumptown
TV · Director · 1 ep
Bluff City Law
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Morning Show
TV · Director · 1 ep
Fosse/Verdon
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Rookie
TV · Director · 1 ep
Sorry for Your Loss
TV · Director · 1 ep
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Movie · Director
Ten Days in the Valley
TV · Director · 1 ep
13 Reasons Why
TV · Director · 6 eps
Foreveryone.net
Movie · Director
Pure Genius
TV · Director · 1 ep
Billions
TV · Director · 2 eps
This Is Us
TV · Director · 3 eps
American Crime
TV · Director · 3 eps
Misconception
Movie · Director
The Affair
TV · Director · 1 ep
Meet Mr Toilet
Movie · Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Movie · Director
Last Call at the Oasis
Movie · Director
American Horror Story
TV · Director · 1 ep
Castle
TV · Director · 2 eps
Ping Pong Playa
Movie · Director
In Treatment
TV · Director · 4 eps
Protagonist
Movie · Director
Grey's Anatomy
TV · Director · 6 eps
In the Realms of the Unreal
Movie · Director
Mister Sterling
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Lyon's Den
TV · Director · 1 ep
American Dreams
TV · Director · 1 ep
The West Wing
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Living Museum
Movie · Director
Better Late
Movie · Director
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Movie · Director
Men of Reenaction
Movie · Director
ER
TV · Director · 1 ep
Sour Death Balls
Movie · Director