Jessica Yu
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 14 February 1966 · 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.
Known for
Directing 20
- 2025The Conductor · director
- 2025A Very Jonas Christmas Movie · director
- 2023Quiz Lady · director
- 2018The Rookie · 1 episode
- 2017Maria Bamford: Old Baby · director
- 2016Foreveryone.net · director
- 2014Misconception · director
- 2012Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas · director
- 2012Meet Mr Toilet · director
- 2011Last Call at the Oasis · director
- 2011American Horror Story · 1 episode
- 2008Ping Pong Playa · director
- 2007Protagonist · director
- 2005Grey's Anatomy · 6 episodes
- 2004In the Realms of the Unreal · director
- 1998The Living Museum · director
- 1996Men of Reenaction · director
- 1996Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien · director
- 1996Better Late · director
- 1993Sour Death Balls · director
Production 2
- 2014Misconception · producer
- 1996Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien · producer
Acting 1
- 2008Capturing Reality as Self
Writing 5
- 2008Ping Pong Playa · writer
- 2007Protagonist · writer
- 2004In the Realms of the Unreal · writer
- 1996Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien · writer
- 1996Better Late · writer
Editing 3
- 2007Protagonist · editor
- 1996Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien · editor
- 1996Better Late · editor