- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 14, 1966
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York, USA
Jessica Yu
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.
Filmography
tv56 Days
2026 · Director
movieA Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025 · Director
tvLong Bright River
2025 · Director
movieQuiz Lady
2023 · Director
tvCitadel
2023 · Director
tvThe Recruit
2022 · Director
tvOnly Murders in the Building
2021 · Director
tvWalker
2021 · Director
tvRatched
2020 · Director
tvHollywood
2020 · Director
tvThe Morning Show
2019 · Director
tvStumptown
2019 · Director
tvBluff City Law
2019 · Executive Producer, Director
tvFosse/Verdon
2019 · Director
tvThe Rookie
2018 · Director
tvSorry for Your Loss
2018 · Director
tvTen Days in the Valley
2017 · Director
movieMaria Bamford: Old Baby
2017 · Director
tv13 Reasons Why
2017 · Director
tvPure Genius
2016 · Director
tvThis Is Us
2016 · Director
tvBillions
2016 · Director
movieForeveryone.net
2016 · Director
tvAmerican Crime
2015 · Director
tvThe Affair
2014 · Director
movieMisconception
2014 · Director, Producer
movieFocus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Director
movieMeet Mr Toilet
2012 · Director
tvAmerican Horror Story
2011 · Director
movieLast Call at the Oasis
2011 · Director
tvCastle
2009 · Director
movieCapturing Reality
2008 · Self
moviePing Pong Playa
2008 · Director, Writer
tvIn Treatment
2008 · Director
movieProtagonist
2007 · Director, Writer, Editor
tvGrey's Anatomy
2005 · Director
movieIn the Realms of the Unreal
2004 · Director, Writer
tvThe Lyon's Den
2003 · Director
tvMister Sterling
2003 · Director
tvAmerican Dreams
2002 · Director
tvThe West Wing
1999 · Director
movieThe Living Museum
1998 · Director
Men of Reenaction
movieMen of Reenaction
1996 · Director
movieBreathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1996 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
movieBetter Late
1996 · Director, Editor, Writer
tvER
1994 · Director
Sour Death Balls
movieSour Death Balls
1993 · Director
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
The Conductor
movieThe Conductor
— · Director