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Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu

Director · Born 1966-02-14 · New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Directed

  1. Grey's Anatomy (2005) — Director
  2. American Horror Story (2011) — Director
  3. 13 Reasons Why (2017) — Director
  4. The Rookie (2018) — Director
  5. Only Murders in the Building (2021) — Director
  6. Castle (2009) — Director
  7. This Is Us (2016) — Director
  8. Ratched (2020) — Director
  9. Billions (2016) — Director
  10. ER (1994) — Director
  11. The Morning Show (2019) — Director
  12. The West Wing (1999) — Director
  13. Citadel (2023) — Director
  14. The Recruit (2022) — Director
  15. The Affair (2014) — Director
  16. Walker (2021) — Director
  17. Hollywood (2020) — Director
  18. Quiz Lady (2023) — Director
  19. 56 Days (2026) — Director
  20. In Treatment (2008) — Director
  21. Stumptown (2019) — Director
  22. American Crime (2015) — Director
  23. A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) — Director
  24. Long Bright River (2025) — Director
  25. Pure Genius (2016) — Director
  26. Fosse/Verdon (2019) — Director
  27. Ping Pong Playa (2008) — Director
  28. Sorry for Your Loss (2018) — Director
  29. In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) — Director
  30. Ten Days in the Valley (2017) — Director
  31. Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017) — Director
  32. Bluff City Law (2019) — Director
  33. American Dreams (2002) — Director
  34. Protagonist (2007) — Director
  35. Last Call at the Oasis (2011) — Director
  36. Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996) — Director
  37. Sour Death Balls (1993) — Director
  38. The Lyon's Den (2003) — Director
  39. Better Late (1996) — Director
  40. Mister Sterling (2003) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  2. Capturing Reality (2008) — Self