
Jessica Yu
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-02-14 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Jessica Yu
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".
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
Capturing Reality
as Self
Crew
A Very Jonas Christmas
Director
(2023)
Quiz Lady
Director
(2017)
Maria Bamford: Old Baby
Director
(2016)
Foreveryone.net
Director
(2014)
Misconception
Director, Producer
(2012)
Meet Mr Toilet
Director
(2012)
(2011)
Last Call at the Oasis
Director
(2008)
Ping Pong Playa
Director, Author
(2007)
Protagonist
Director, Writer, Editor
(2004)
In the Realms of the Unreal
Director
(1998)
The Living Museum
Director
(1996)
Better Late
Director, Writer, Editor
(1996)
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
(1993)
Sour Death Balls
Director