Name
Jessica Yu
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1966-02-14 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
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".
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Known For
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Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make ...
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In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henr...
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Jessica Yu's documentary explores the relationship between human life and Euripidean drama...
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Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on al...
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She's savagely upbeat. Lovably awkward. And full of surprises. A wildly funny trip through...
- 2008 Capturing Reality as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 The Jon Stewart Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
