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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-02-14 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Jessica Lingman Yu
Jessica Lingmin Yu
ג׳סיקה יו

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

6.9%

The Oscars

Mar 19, 1953

6.1%

Capturing Reality

Nov 1, 2008

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Acting

2008

Capturing Reality as Self

1953

The Oscars as Self

Directing

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A Very Jonas Christmas as Director

2025

Long Bright River as Director

2023		Quiz Lady as Director
2023		Citadel as Director

2022

The Recruit as Director

2021		Only Murders in the Building as Director
2021		Walker as Director

2020		Ratched as Director
2020		Hollywood as Director

2019		The Morning Show as Director
2019		Stumptown as Director
2019		Bluff City Law as Director
2019		Fosse/Verdon as Director

2018		The Rookie as Director
2018		Sorry For Your Loss as Director

2017		Ten Days in the Valley as Director
2017		Maria Bamford: Old Baby as Director
2017		13 Reasons Why as Director

2016		Pure Genius as Director
2016		This Is Us as Director
2016		Billions as Director
2016		Foreveryone.net as Director

2015

American Crime as Director

2014

Misconception as Director

2012		Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas as Director
2012		Meet Mr Toilet as Director

2011		American Horror Story as Director
2011		Last Call at the Oasis as Director

2009

Castle as Director

2008		Ping Pong Playa as Director
2008		In Treatment as Director

2007

Protagonist as Director

2005

Grey's Anatomy as Director

2004

In the Realms of the Unreal as Director

2003		The Lyon's Den as Director
2003		Mister Sterling as Director

2002

American Dreams as Director

1999

The West Wing as Director

1998

The Living Museum as Director

1996		Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Director
1996		Better Late as Director

1994

ER as Director

1993

Sour Death Balls as Director

Editing

2007

Protagonist as Editor

1996		Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Editor
1996		Better Late as Editor

Production

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The Venery of Samantha Bird as Consulting Producer

2019

Bluff City Law as Executive Producer

2014

Misconception as Producer

1996

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Producer

Writing

2008

Ping Pong Playa as Author

2007

Protagonist as Writer

1996		Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien as Writer
1996		Better Late as Writer