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Jessica Yu

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Jessica Yu

Born Feb 14, 1966 · 60 years49 titles 18 movies · 31 TV
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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.

Also known as

Jessica Lingman Yu · Jessica Lingmin Yu · ג׳סיקה יו

Born

Feb 14, 1966

New York City, New York, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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Acting credits

47

Directing

5

Writing

5

Other crew

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Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

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