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Jessica Yu (b. 1966)

Alias:
Jessica Lingman Yu
Jessica Lingmin Yu
ג׳סיקה יו

Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA

Born:
February 14, 1966

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Author:
2008  Ping Pong Playa

Director:
1993  Sour Death Balls
1996  Better Late
1996  Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1998  The Living Museum
2004  In the Realms of the Unreal
2007  Protagonist
2008  Ping Pong Playa
2011  Last Call at the Oasis
2012  Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012  Meet Mr Toilet
2014  Misconception
2016  Foreveryone.net
2017  Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2023  Quiz Lady
????  Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie

Editor:
1993  Sour Death Balls
1996  Better Late
1996  Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1998  The Living Museum
2004  In the Realms of the Unreal
2007  Protagonist
2008  Ping Pong Playa
2011  Last Call at the Oasis
2012  Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012  Meet Mr Toilet
2014  Misconception
2016  Foreveryone.net
2017  Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2023  Quiz Lady
????  Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie

Producer:
1993  Sour Death Balls
1996  Better Late
1996  Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1998  The Living Museum
2004  In the Realms of the Unreal
2007  Protagonist
2008  Ping Pong Playa
2011  Last Call at the Oasis
2012  Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012  Meet Mr Toilet
2014  Misconception
2016  Foreveryone.net
2017  Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2023  Quiz Lady
????  Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie

Writer:
1993  Sour Death Balls
1996  Better Late
1996  Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1998  The Living Museum
2004  In the Realms of the Unreal
2007  Protagonist
2008  Ping Pong Playa
2011  Last Call at the Oasis
2012  Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012  Meet Mr Toilet
2014  Misconception
2016  Foreveryone.net
2017  Maria Bamford: Old Baby
2023  Quiz Lady
????  Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Consulting Producer:
????  The Venery of Samantha Bird

Director:
1994  ER
1999  The West Wing
2002  American Dreams
2003  Mister Sterling
2003  The Lyon's Den
2005  Grey's Anatomy
2008  In Treatment
2009  Castle
2011  American Horror Story
2015  American Crime
2016  Billions
2016  Pure Genius
2016  This Is Us
2017  13 Reasons Why
2017  Ten Days in the Valley
2018  Sorry For Your Loss
2018  The Rookie
2019  Bluff City Law
2019  Fosse/Verdon
2019  Stumptown
2019  The Morning Show
2020  Hollywood
2020  Ratched
2021  Only Murders in the Building
2021  Walker
2022  The Recruit
2023  Citadel
????  The Venery of Samantha Bird

Executive Producer:
1994  ER
1999  The West Wing
2002  American Dreams
2003  Mister Sterling
2003  The Lyon's Den
2005  Grey's Anatomy
2008  In Treatment
2009  Castle
2011  American Horror Story
2015  American Crime
2016  Billions
2016  Pure Genius
2016  This Is Us
2017  13 Reasons Why
2017  Ten Days in the Valley
2018  Sorry For Your Loss
2018  The Rookie
2019  Bluff City Law
2019  Fosse/Verdon
2019  Stumptown
2019  The Morning Show
2020  Hollywood
2020  Ratched
2021  Only Murders in the Building
2021  Walker
2022  The Recruit
2023  Citadel
????  The Venery of Samantha Bird

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