Known For
Directing
Known Credits
2
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 14, 1966 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
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".
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| 2019 | Bluff City Law...Executive Producer | |
| 2014 | Misconception...Producer | |
| 1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien...Producer |
| 2008 | Ping Pong Playa...Writer | |
| 2007 | Protagonist...Writer | |
| 2004 | In the Realms of the Unreal...Writer | |
| 1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien...Writer | |
| 1996 | Better Late...Writer |
| 2007 | Protagonist...Editor | |
| 1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien...Editor | |
| 1996 | Better Late...Editor |
| 2008 | Capturing Realityas Self | |
| 1953 | The Oscarsas Self |
